An exploration of pre-operative fasting practices in adult patients having elective surgery

A systematic literature search was carried out using the following key words:.

Polices and guidance on euthanasia and assisted suicide

Euthanasia is the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering; assisted suicide is the act of deliberately assisting or encouraging another person to take their own life..

Patient safety and litigation in the NHS post-COVID-19

The COVID-19 NHS crisis plan response (NHS England and NHS Improvement, 2020a) seeks to deploy nursing and medical students, and clinical academics. It will be appropriate and necessary for UK doctors...

The law and death

There is no statutory definition of death (Grubb et al, 2010). Generally, the Triad of Bichat (Griffith and Tengnah, 2008), which defines death as ‘the failure of the body as an integrated system...

Leadership in the time of crisis

Hall (2020) states that ‘great leaders care about their employees as people first and workers second. That distinction may not be noticed during a typical workday, but it becomes critical during a...

Staff unavailability and safe staffing: are headroom allowances ‘realistic’?

The long-standing global shortage of nurses has been widely reported (International Council of Nurses (ICN), 2006; 2019). Clearly, the effective use of existing staff is imperative. The objective of...

Organisational empowerment and assertive communication behaviours: a survey of Jordanian newly qualified nurses

The study was reviewed and approved by the Scientific Research Committee at the School of Nursing at the University of Jordan, and the ethics committees of participating hospitals..

Intentional rounding

Should nurses be technology enhanced?

The impact of genitourinary syndrome of menopause on continence

‘Members of the consensus conference agreed that the term genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is a medically more accurate, all-encompassing, and publicly acceptable term than vulvovaginal...

Improving pelvic floor health: advice for nurses and their patients

‘Based on the data available, we can be confident that pelvic floor muscle training can cure or improve symptoms of stress urinary incontinence and all other types of urinary incontinence.’ .

Understanding shock in children

In this article, ‘children’ will refer to any child or young person up to 16 years of age. However, although infection is recognised as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the newborn...