All nurses and doctors must demonstrate a reasonable personal patient safety updating regimen within their own clinical practice areas. The codes of professional conduct require reflective, safe,...
This teaching approach draws on experiential learning theory (Kolb, 2014) and uses transformational, pragmatic underpinnings of drama to develop nursing students' assessment and decision-making...
‘My view is that it is just not possible for everyone to know the range of skills these wider professions can offer across the health, care and wider system and the impact they can make. But every...
This audit aimed to review the current practice of prescribing and monitoring of fluids and the documentation of fluid intake and output in hospitalised patients by assessing the appropriateness and...
While the NHS has a track record of creating and implementing innovations, it is less positive when adopting and diffusing them (Bamford et al, 2017). Despite the introduction of the NHS Long Term...
‘There has never been a better time to be a nurse or midwife. Challenges abound, but opportunities are endless to have a rich, varied and rewarding career’ .
Current figures relating to malnutrition in the UK reveal that up to 3 million people at any one time are living with malnutrition (British Nutrition Foundation, 2023) and 93% of malnutrition occurs...
For many students, numeracy is a source of anxiety. The concept of maths anxiety, a form of performance anxiety linked to negative emotional responses to mathematical tasks, has been widely documented...
The use of a blended learning approach, which includes mentoring, role modelling and ‘on-the-job’ training, has enabled us to build capacity in emergency, trauma and critical care nursing in Zambia,...
While PBS is described as a multicomponent framework that is delivered through an multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach, nurses' views of PBS were lacking in literature until recently (Savarimuthu,...