NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
Clinical
<p>Women are at risk of acquiring HIV infection through the same modes as men, which include sexual intercourse, contaminated needles and organ/tissue donations.
<p>Many people know about the dangers of outdoor air pollution.
<p>Doreen Norton reviews the evidence for the existence of this mysterious condition which affects elderly people towards the twilight hours of the day.</p>
<p>Despite enormous community-based problems, nursing in India is largely designed to function as a hospital-based service.
<p>For many patients, bone marrow transplantation offers the only realistic opportunity for survival from malignant haematological disease.
<p>There are not many nurses who could say that they have the good fortune to attend an above-average number of study days throughout the year.
<p>ECG patient monitoring is now regarded as essential in providing a guide to the general condition of a patient.
<p> The practice of routine pre-operative conjunctival swabbing for patterns about to undergo intra-ocular surgery seemed a waste of human and financial resources to nurse
<p>The quality of life for long-term psychiatric patients in the community is an area of concern for those charged with their care.
<p>This autumn sees the launch of a television series on nursing.
<p>There are two major problems involved in trying to identify nursing with a health promotion role.
<p>That FPCs and the GPs see the practice nurses as taking on a high proportion of the work load which will be generated by the new GP contract is not in doubt.
<p>Incontinence is a huge and sometimes a hidden problem affecting at least two million people in Britain.
<p>The proposals contained in Project 2000 (1) regarding the education and training reforms for nursing have major implications for enrolled nurses</p>
<p>Since 1972, the Nelson Clinic at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, has provided a six week residential treatment course for people with chronic alcohol problems; detoxification is provided as part of the course, but traditionally people requiring just detoxification were admitted to t
<p>For some considerable time nursing education was the sole responsibility of schools of nursing. however since the mid-1960s, nursing education has been provided by other institutions, such as col- eges, universities and polytechnics.
<p>The National Health Service, one of the largest institution in Europe, is a manpower orientated organisation, the largest part of which is the employment of nurses to provide the essential part of patient care.</p>
<p>Most of us have looked after someone in pain after an operation, but how well did we do, and if you asked the patient what would he say? Did we have a good idea of how much pain he had and the effectiveness of any pain relief?</p>
