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Provision of clean injecting equipment
Providing clean needles and syringes to injecting drug users is one established...
Environmental provisions for children in A&E
The need to consider the effect of the hospital environment on the hospitalised...
Mental health care: expanding nursing roles
It is estimated that about 2,500 individuals are admitted to mental health...
Care of the infant with bronchiolitis
During winter, caring for babies with bronchiolitis is a common occurrence for most...
Chronic alcohol users attending A&E
The Department of Health (1), in its Health of the Nation document, has set targets...
Psychological aspects of pre-hospital care
Nurses working in the pre-hospital environment are well placed to provide...
Nurse practitioners in A&E: a literature review
The emergency nurse practitioner’s role provides a new complementary minor injury...
Management of near drowning incidents
About 500 people the in drowning accidents in the UK each year(1). Although there...
Care of the pregnant woman in A&E
Pregnancy may be the cause of an emergency or incidental to it. In cases where the...
Comparing clinical management of overdoses
Self-poisoning, second only to ischaemic heart disease, is the most common cause of...
Pre-hospital care delivery
Few nurses would undertake an expansion of an existing role, for example...
A literature review
As many as 35 per cent of women attending A&E may do so as a result of...
Equipping the pre-hospital care team
Of the 291 A&E departments in the United Kingdom, 121 (41.6 per cent)...
Organ donation and transplantation
Organ donation and transplantation are highly controversial and emotive areas of...