Syringe pumps and start-up time: ensuring safe practice
The start-up time is the delay between starting an infusion pump and the delivery...
10 Jan 2001
Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Clinical nurse managers’ perceptions of factors affecting role performance
Aim This study explored clinical nurse managers’ perceptions of the factors affecting role...
03 Jan 2001
Zero tolerance of violence against healthcare staff
A government campaign aimed at stopping violence against healthcare staff is a start in...
03 Jan 2001
Fast-tracking older people through A&E
This article explores the concept and feasibility of fast-tracking older people through A...
03 Jan 2001
An evaluation of the RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme: part 2
Aim The RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme was set up in 1995 and sought...
13 Dec 2000
Proposed extensions to nurse prescribing
Nurse prescribing has been a bone of contention for the past decade. Now, the...
13 Dec 2000
Self-management of asthma
ASTHMA AFFECTS approximately 3.4 million people in the UK (NAC 2000a) and has a...
13 Dec 2000
An evaluation of the RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme: part 1
Aim The RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme was set up in 1995 and sought to...
06 Dec 2000
Position statement on nurse-patient ratios in critiral care
The level of nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in critical care environments is a...
06 Dec 2000
The use of honey in wound management
Honey has been used as a wound treatment for more than 2,000 years. Greater scientific...
29 Nov 2000
The role of the clinical practice educator in tissue viability nursing
Tissue viability nursing has expanded and developed considerably in recent years. Julie...
29 Nov 2000
Management of patients with fungating wounds
In the absence of much literature about fungating wounds, Mark Collier presents a thought-...
29 Nov 2000
Responsive assessment of clinical competence: part 2
Aim To highlight the concerns that students and practitioners might have about the process...
22 Nov 2000
Declining asthma severity
ASTHMA IS a common condition, reportedly affecting as many as one in five school-...
22 Nov 2000
Responsive assessment of clinical competence: part 1
Aim To highlight the concerns that students and practitioners might have about the process...
15 Nov 2000
Patient assessment and care planning: sexuality
In this article the author examines the purpose of discussing relationships and sexuality at...
15 Nov 2000
Primary mental health care: whose role is it anyway?
Nursing, in common with all healthcare disciplines, has had to respond to major developments...
15 Nov 2000
The care of older people
DURING INFORMAL conversations with nurses on a transitional care unit at a local...
15 Nov 2000