CPD articles
Our continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to assist with your nursing skills and practice.
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
Pathophysiology, risk factors and signs and symptoms of wound infection
Breaking bad news
Communication skills to help you engage in challenging conversations with patients
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
Learn its pathophysiology, staging, signs and symptoms, and treatments
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
Enhance your knowledge of some of the mechanisms of drug-drug interactions
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