CPD articles
Our continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to assist with your nursing skills and practice.
Calculations for new prescribers
Mistakes in calculation can lead to potentially dangerous prescribing errors. This article...
01 Feb 2005
Community health assessments
Community health assessments have become an important part of the work of primary care...
01 Nov 2004
Behind the headlines: sexual health implications for nursing ethics and practice
Lurid headlines, cultural beliefs and outdated value systems have all contributed to sexual...
01 Oct 2004
Advocating immunisation
The improvement of global immunisation coverage over the last 30 years is the single...
01 Sep 2004
Management of patients with breast cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with over 41,000 women diagnosed every...
01 Jul 2004
Diet and menopausal health
This article outlines the evidence for exercise and dietary influences on many of the major...
01 Jun 2004
Management of allergic rhinitis
Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever, can have a major effect on patients’ quality of life...
01 May 2004
Providing a quality pre-travel health consultation
This article analyses the pre-travel health consultation and discusses the importance of...
01 Apr 2004
Managing depression: an overview
This article examines the treatment and management of depression, dispelling a number of...
01 Mar 2004
Managing dyspnoea in end-stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
This article examines the palliative care needs of patients with end-stage COPD, looking...
01 Feb 2004
Weight management
Obesity has a major impact on individual health and wellbeing. This article describes how...
01 Dec 2003
Local factors and their impact on the wound healing process
There have been important advances in the management of wound healing. This article brings...
01 Nov 2003
Power and control over children and young people
This feature introduces you to theories of control and power and invites you to relate these...
01 Oct 2003
Understanding your patients’ needs: travel vaccines
This article suggests ways of deciding what travel health advice nurses should give to...
01 Sep 2003
Nutrition and diabetes
This article considers the diagnosis and management of the increasing incidence of diabetes
01 Jul 2003
Factors that compromise wound healing
This article explores a zonal approach to wound assessment considered in a holistic context
01 Jun 2003
Stress urinary incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence is a condition largely affecting the female population, with one...
01 May 2003
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is a general label applied to cancers occurring in the colon or rectum (...
01 Apr 2003