CPD articles

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

Identification, assessment and treatment of urinary incontinence and bowel control issues

How to identify, assess and treat urinary incontinence and bowel control issues

Enhance your knowledge of treatment options such as lifestyle interventions and medicines

Meeting the health and social care needs of LGBT+ people

Meeting the health and social care needs of LGBT+ people

Understand the challenges they often experience and how to improve their care

Understanding the importance of kindness in nursing practice

Understanding the importance of kindness in nursing practice

Recognise the role of kindness in providing high-quality care and improving patient outcomes

Managing malignant wounds in patients receiving palliative care

Managing malignant wounds in patients receiving palliative care

Learn about wound management strategies that could enhance quality of life

Promoting young people’s mental health: the role of community nurses

Promoting young people’s mental health: the role of community nurses

Why the pandemic and social media may affect mental health, and how to discuss these issues

An overview of the prevention and management of wound infection

An overview of the prevention and management of wound infection

Pathophysiology, risk factors and signs and symptoms of wound infection

Breaking bad news

Breaking bad news

Communication skills to help you engage in challenging conversations with patients

Understanding and mitigating low health literacy

Understanding and mitigating low health literacy

Source techniques to assist you in communicating with people who have low health literacy

Identifying and managing acute kidney injury

Identifying and managing acute kidney injury

Learn its pathophysiology, staging, signs and symptoms, and treatments

Prevention, identification and management of malnutrition in older people in the community

Management of malnutrition in older people in the community

Understand the elements of a person-centred care plan for individuals who are malnourished

Understanding and managing common drug interactions

Understanding and managing common drug interactions

Enhance your knowledge of some of the mechanisms of drug-drug interactions

Ethical issues arising from the assisted dying debate

Ethical issues arising from the assisted dying debate

Familiarise yourself with the nurse’s role in caring for patients requesting assisted dying

Clinical assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in adults

Enhancing nurses’ understanding and identification of these symptoms

Cardiac pacing: principles, interventions and patient support

The nurse’s role in the management of patients receiving cardiac pacing

Acute coronary syndrome: role of the nurse in patient assessment and management

Learn how the syndrome develops and what characterises its different types

Practising cultural humility to promote person and family-centred care

Understand how an individual’s culture can affect their health behaviours

Respiratory assessment: undertaking an examination of the chest in adults

Learn a systematic approach that includes inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation...
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Heel pressure ulcers: understanding why they develop and how to prevent them

Read about techniques and devices that can be used to prevent heel pressure ulcers

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