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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.

Psychosexual therapy

Sexual problems are more likely to originate from psychological or relationship difficulties...

Maternity care data (MCD) project

THIS IS a national project, commissioned by the NHS Executive, to determine what...

Dealing with problems in clinical practice

The identification of problems and how they are dealt with is affected by the individual...

Do respiratory patients receive adequate analgesia?

This literature review demonstrates that hospitalised patients may not be receiving adequate...

Critical pathways: an efficient way to manage care

Liz Herring argues that care pathways provide a change in the traditional approach to...

Measuring services: a district nursing dependency tool

The government has highlighted the importance of reducing inequalities in health and...

Obesity management

Recent national initiatives to reduce the numbers of people classified as obese appear to...

Nurses and PAMs in innovative roles: job satisfaction and its contributing factors

EXPLORING NEW Roles in Practice is a collaborative study between Sheffield...

The Queen’s Nursing Institute, Scotland

DEVOLUTION MAY be new to politicians in Scotland, but not to Queen's Nurses....

Who needs a mother and baby unit?

A ten-year retrospective review of case notes of all users of a mother and baby...

Arterial embolisation of uterine fibroids

Interventional radiology has advanced rapidly in recent years as new technology has become...

Nursing stereotypes

Alan Cunningham describes how common stereotypes have an influence on nursing, both within...

The Delphi technique

The Delphi survey technique has merit in both qualitative and quantitative research, but...

Antibiotic therapy

The nurse’s role in the administration of antibiotics involves more than just...

The prospects for nursing if euthanasia is legalized

As the debate about the legalisation of euthanasia continues, Antoni Banaszak examines the...

Learning disability: promoting health equality in the community

A project to discover if people with a learning disability would benefit from a pop-in...

Reciprocal secondment

Reciprocal secondment can improve relationships between organisations and be of great...

Cannabis: the evidence

There has been a lot of publicity over the past year on the issue of whether the legal...

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