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The aim of this study was to explore patient and healthcare staff views about the information and education currently provided to people with a spinal cord injury at the LSCIC..
The literature review was conducted using Liverpool John Moores University's Discover More search tool, which was used to search a range of academic journals relevant to pain assessment in the...
In Western Australia, a drop-in centre within a cancer department offering complementary therapies appeared to enable coping with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by facilitating comfort and...
The collection of sputum is one of the most common tests within respiratory medicine (Hickin et al, 2015). Sputum is (coughed up and spat out) salivary matter mixed with mucus or pus from the...
The Omaha System is a nursing classification system that has helped to make nursing interventions more visible, using nursing terminology, and supporting the collaboration of nurses working in...
This study had two main aims. First, it intended to ascertain whether a short, one-off educational intervention into self-harm could reduce stigma and negative attitudes towards people who self-harm...
As in any robust discussion, it is important to appraise the available evidence. A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) (2005), A Safer Place for Patients, indicated that there are 34 000...
Key dates in the outbreak are shown in Figure 1. The outbreak lasted 9 months from April 2015 to January 2016 and was declared closed on 12 January 2016. However, a further two cases were identified...
‘Broad clusters of general attributes which are considered essential for effective performance.’ .
‘The competencies presented in this document focus only on those skills unique to the role of CRNs. Clinical skills are assessed through different processes.’ .
It is estimated that approximately 60% of the nursing workforce consists of NQNs (Whitehead et al, 2013). The Department of Health (DH) referred to a ‘newly registered practitioner’ as a ‘nurse,...
In this randomised clinical trial, participants were matched for age, gender, economic status, type of surgery and welfare status (heath insurance status). Seventy patients referred for surgery on the...
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