This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
I qualified as a nurse in 2011 and gained my first nursing role in Scarborough General Hospital. My career has mostly consisted of working in endoscopy environments and colorectal roles. I moved in to...
BJN is the peer-reviewed journal that brings together nursing practice, education and leadership into one comprehensive resource. In addition to academic material on nursing and hospitals, the...
This review follows the methodology proposed by Levac et al. (2010) and further developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) (Peters, 2020). A scoping review was chosen over a systematic review as...
The pancreas is located behind the stomach and has exocrine and endocrine glands with several functions, including breaking down carbohydrates, acids, fats and proteins and hormonal secretion of...
Symptoms of ovarian cancer are non-specific and are often accepted by women as normal changes associated with ageing, such as menopause (Bankhead et al, 2008). This is a dangerous misconception that...
The classification system for dystonia (see Table 1), is based on clinical characteristics (age at onset, body distribution, temporal pattern, the coexistence of other movement disorders and...
In the University College Hospital (UCH) Macmillan Cancer Centre we have introduced a reflective practice group session for our nursing assistants, band 5 and band 6 nurses to enable teams to reflect...
Over the past 22 years, I have established some of the first nurse-led services in cardiology including follow-up clinics for patients post percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), pre-admission...
People with DVA and liver disease recalled venepuncture experiences at 2 key time points: (1) participants’ recalled experiences of DVA prior to the availability of EJV (capturing acceptability of...
