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Noreen Kilkenny

Senior Lecturer, Adult Nursing, Northumbria University

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Oral care in adults

The Department of Health's Essence of Care document (2010) emphasised that oral hygiene is a priority and a standard facet of patient care. Nurses, who work at the heart of health care, may find...

The nurse's role in ear care: undertaking hearing assessment and ear cleaning

It is important that health professionals understand the anatomy and physiology of the ear to enable them to assess and diagnose ear conditions. The ear has three main parts (Figure 1):.

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