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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.

Documentation in the outpatient setting

Record keeping in the outpatient department can be problematic. In this article, the author...

Risk management in infection control

In this article, Janet McCulloch discusses the assessment of risk in relation to hazardous...

Inappropriate admissions to hospital: the views of nursing and residential homes

Acute admissions of older people from residential and nursing homes are often seen...

Can over-75 health checks identify unmet need?

Eight years on from the introduction of annual health checks for older people in primary...

Research and audit in effective health services

This article explores the role of research and audit in the pursuit of effective health...

The value of the nurse-patient relationship in the care of cancer patients

The nurse-patient relationship can be seen as central to any form of nursing care. This...

The key attributes of agerontological nurse specialist

OLDER PEOPLE have frequently received care thatneither meets their individual needs...

Emergency services for children and young people

The health care needs of a child are very different to those of an adult but when it comes...

Teaching patients in post-operative eye care: the demands of day surgery

In this article, the author examines how advances in day case surgery have changed...

Complementary therapies in long-stay neurologyin-patient settings

THIS PILOT study was conducted to address the shortage of research into...

Meeting the needs of young carers

Up to 40,000 young people in the UK may be caring for a sick or elderly relative but they...

A language for nursing

Nursing has no common language to describe precisely what nurses do, for what sort of...

The nursing research initiative for scotland

THE REMIT of the NRIS is to provide a focus for both research and development (R...

Von Willebrand disorder

Von Willebrand disorder (VWD) is a disorder of blood coagulation. It has similarities with...

Changing attitudes through persuasive communication

Nurses are uniquely placed to provide effective health education with the aim of promoting...

A survey of therapeutic touch practitioners

Therapeutic touch (TT) has only fairly recently been introduced into Britain by...

Occupational stress in the newly qualified staff nurse

THERE IS substantial evidence to indicate that nursing is a stressful occupation...

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