This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
The COVID-19 pandemic is still with us as we have moved into the new normality of coping with the virus. There is now time for reflection on how events developed and progressed from a patient safety...
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) method was used to perform a literature search (Moher et al, 2009).
The insertion of a PIVC is the most commonly performed invasive procedure in healthcare, yet its significance is underappreciated. Clinicians are commonly heard saying ‘it's just a peripheral,’ which...
One issue she discusses are the professional silos and hierarchies, for example:.
I developed the ‘pick ‘n’ mix teaching’ sessions in response to a request for work-based teaching from one of our medical wards. This particular clinical area had identified various clinical incidents...
The Cochrane and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines informed processes (Liberati et al, 2009)..
The RNA role was first introduced in 2017. Six years on, it is important to recognise that the role has developed, with the first learners joining the NMC register in 2019 and with new career...
One of the biggest issues I have noticed since working in the bladder and bowel sector is that urinary incontinence is widely normalised. You can easily buy containment products off the shelf in...
In terms of patient safety improvement practices and culture development, a recent report published by Healthcare Excellence Canada (Gilbert et al, 2023) provides some interesting and valuable...
‘Trusts receive too many safety-related messages from too many different sources. The trusts we spoke to said there needed to be better communication and coordination between national bodies, and...