No amount of training is going to help me feed 10 people in 20 minutes while managing critically ill patients"
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Nursing in Haiti
'Surely these people have been through enough?'
Fi Stephenson reports on the harrowing aftermath of the Haiti earthquake
Nursin' USA
Nursin’ USA - The trouble with early warning signs
Nursing Times’ resident US nurse Sara Morgan is struggling to understand the point of early warning scores. Shouldn’t all good nurses already know their way around vital signs?
Comment and blogs
Take it from me - the future of nursing is bright
Ignore the negativity and bad press - the future of nursing is in good hands. Nursing Times resident student nurse Katrina Michelle Rowan has plenty of reasons to be cheerful.
Are you a saint, or a sinner?
As the dust settles over Mid Staffs and the PM’s commission, the battle for the public perception of nursing rages on. Are you a Nurse Jackie? Or more of a Carry On? Beyond the Bedpan tries to make sense of it all, and fails miserably.
Why does fear and loathing surround nursing degrees?
As a sometime historian, I might be forgiven for the sense of deja vu listening to the hysteria surrounding the move to degree entry for nurses. What is it about nurses and degrees that polarises opinion?
Sharing nursing ideas
Benefits of developing community leg ulcer services in college
In response to the Darzi Review, High Quality Care for All, ( DoH, 2008 ) Hampshire Community Health Care (HCHC) are currently undergoing exciting new changes in order to Transform Community Services, aiming to improve the quality of care and health choices, offered to service users.
Care of deteriorating patients
Salford Royal Foundation Trust signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008 and is one of the trusts to implement the reducing harm from deterioration intervention.
Joint working with the parent of a child with Down's Syndrome and learning disabilities
Genuine joint working between a community nurse, clinical psychologist and the parent of a child with Down’s Syndrome and learning disabilities enabled progress far beyond the boundaries of traditional working partnerships
Practice questions
I have been asked to help measure the apex and radial pulse. What are they and why is it necessary to measure both?
Nursing practice often involves undertaking procedures about which there is debate or uncertainty. In Practice Question we ask experts to determine how nurses should approach these situations
Does giving paracetamol to lower raised temperature interfere with the body's natural defence response to infection?
Nursing practice often involves procedures or management about which there is debate or uncertainty. In Practice Questions we ask experts to determine how nurses should approach these
Beyond the Bedpan
Are you a saint, or a sinner?
As the dust settles over Mid Staffs and the PM’s commission, the battle for the public perception of nursing rages on. Are you a Nurse Jackie? Or more of a Carry On? Beyond the Bedpan tries to make sense of it all, and fails miserably.
Join the debate
Mark Radcliffe
If we tolerate pressure it may lead to another Mid Staffs
I was talking to some second year student nurses this week. I have always thought the second year of a nursing course is the hardest - what with being part university student charged with trying to construct the knowledge and understanding needed to nurse, yet also part working nurse, charged with being increasingly capable and also with fitting in.
Nursing in the Jungle
From Dulwich to Belize - a nursing adventure begins
My adventure with Trekforce began as most good adventures begin, with a chat in the pub. I was talking about how I would like to work for a charity, such as MSF or VSO, but was wanting to find a stepping stone between an NHS setting and a charity setting.
Practice comment
Poor numeracy skills must be tackled to cut medication errors
Drug errors related to the wrong dose are a leading cause of serious incidents. Trusts must implement strategies to ensure staff are competent to calculate doses, says Paul Warburton
Nurse intuition will be restricted if technology dominates care
While technological advances have made patient observations more accurate, care must not become too mechanical as it is patient interaction that enables staff to use intuition, says Eileen Sills
