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COVID-19 and hand hygiene: the vital importance of hand drying

Residual moisture on the hands and the amount of time hands are wet or exposed to wetness, are factors of importance in terms of hand hygiene and infection prevention. Water exposure can cause...

Implementing enhanced patient education for surgical site infection prevention in cardiac surgery

Findings from the surveys are displayed using descriptive analysis. Nonparametric data are presented with median and range. Frequency distribution of aggregate scores are provided for ordinal data...

How widely has ANTT been adopted in NHS hospitals and community care organisations in England and Scotland?

ANTT is a clinical practice framework for the education, practice and research of the critical clinical competency of aseptic technique. Based on a novel concept of Key-Part and Key-Site Protection,...

An overview of sacral neuromodulation: a treatment for patients with symptoms of lower urinary tract dysfunction

SNM is believed to work by electrically stimulating the S3 and/or S4 sacral spinal nerves (Mitchell et al, 2011). Exactly how this produces a decrease in bladder symptoms in humans is not fully...

Intermittent self-catheterisation: a person-centred approach

Some patients who are required to start ISC are already aware of the significant symptomatic impact of their urinary retention on their daily activities. These patients may be struggling with urinary...

Review of normal gastrointestinal tract, ulcerative colitis, proctitis and rectal medication adherence

Many parts of the GI tract can be problematic in disease. An ulcerated mouth can make ingestion painful and this may result in anorexia or weight loss. A diseased small bowel might result in a reduced...

Asthma guidelines: the best of three

The GINA report of 2020 (GINA, 2020) is the only guideline so far to have published guidance during the pandemic, although both the BTS and NICE have published separate documents on the subject. GINA...

Management of COPD exacerbations: pharmacotherapeutics of medications

COPD is described as a preventable and treatable group of lung conditions characterised by airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease...

Cortrak feeding tube placement: interpretation agreement of the ‘GI flexure’ system versus X-ray

There was a high level of agreement between Cortrak and radiological interpretation. This was not high enough to prove that Cortrak could reduce end-of-procedure detection of lung misplacement to...

Do nursing textbooks accurately describe pulse oximetry? An audit of current literature

The factors contributing to graduate nurses' pulse oximetry knowledge deficits are not clear but inadequate education may be an associated factor. It has been suggested that the origin of these...

Safe and effective use of phototherapy and photochemotherapy in the treatment of psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic, multisystem inflammatory disease, predominantly affecting the skin and the joints, which is present in 2–3% of the world's population (Ayala-Fontánez et al, 2016). The precise...

The development of critical care nursing education in Zambia

The purpose of this activity was for key stakeholders to review and validate the current Advanced Diploma in Critical Care Nursing and to prepare a framework for a bachelor degree-level critical care...

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