CPD articles

Our continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to assist with your nursing skills and practice.

Blunt mechanism chest wall injury: initial patient assessment and acute care priorities

Blunt mechanism chest wall injury: initial patient assessment and acute care priorities

A prognostic model predicting complications helps nurses to asses risk and level of care required

Maintaining a safe environment in emergency department waiting rooms

Maintaining a safe environment in emergency department waiting rooms

How nurses can manage patients' expectations in a busy and unpredictable environment

‘Corridor care’ in the emergency department: managing patient care in non-clinical areas safely and efficiently

‘Corridor care’ in the ED: managing patient care in non-clinical areas safely

The unique challenges of having to care for patients in non-clinical areas

Overcoming the barriers to optimal end of life care in the emergency department

Overcoming the barriers to optimal end of life care in the emergency department

Nurses working in EDs can help ensure that the care needs of dying patients and their families are addressed

Managing infection prevention and control in the emergency care setting: an overview for emergency nurses

Managing infection prevention and control in emergency care

Overview of epidemiological perspectives including the nurse’s role in antibiotic stewardship

Recognition and management of patients with frailty in the emergency department

Recognition and management of patients with frailty in the emergency department

Familiarise yourself with frailty screening tools often used in emergency care settings

Ensuring effective intercultural communication in the emergency department

Ensuring effective intercultural communication in the emergency department

This can be achieved by nurses developing cultural knowledge and interpersonal skills

Assessing and managing people with sickle cell disease presenting with vaso-occlusive crisis in the emergency department

Assessing people with sickle cell disease presenting with vaso-occlusive crisis

Understand how to assess and manage patients with vaso-occlusive crisis in the ED

Breaking bad news to patients in the emergency department

Breaking bad news to patients in the emergency department

Preparing autonomous practitioners to break news of serious and new diagnoses

Health promotion in emergency care: rationale, strategies and activities

Health promotion in emergency care: rationale, strategies and activities

Concept of health promotion and its relevance to nurses working in the emergency department

Managing violence and aggression in the emergency department

Managing violence and aggression in the emergency department

Featuring a successful small-scale trial of body-worn cameras at an East London ED

How to get care right for people with learning disabilities in the emergency department

To get care and treatment right it is essential to ‘ask and engage’ people

Meeting the needs of homeless people attending the emergency department

The care needs of homeless people attending EDs are frequently misunderstood

Mallet finger injuries: the signs, symptoms, diagnosis and management

CPD article on the pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and management of mallet...

Sepsis: an overview of the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and pathophysiology

Sepsis is a medical emergency that should always be considered in acutely unwell patients

Nursing patients with acute aortic dissection in emergency departments

This article aims to increase emergency nurses’ knowledge of acute aortic dissection

Nursing management of paediatric asthma in emergency departments

Childhood asthma is a complex disease which may be resistant to treatment and varies in its...

Lyme disease: recognition and management for emergency nurses

Over the past ten years there has been a significant rise in the number of people who...

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