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MetaHabilitation: how to survive life after trauma
MetaHabilitation is a new model for rehabilitation after personal life crisis or significant trauma. It focuses on emotional and spiritual challenges.
When should peripheral venous catheters be replaced?
Catheter insertion is an unpleasant experience for patients. This Cochrane review assessed the effects of removing catheters when clinically indicated compared with doing so routinely
Can failure to rescue be a key indicator of patient safety?
A look at whether administrative data in English hospitals contain enough information to reliably report “failure to rescue” rates and to what extent they affect patient safety
Evaluating a critical care course
A study looked at how final-year student nurses felt they benefited from taking part in a critical care course
Faecal incontinence in critical illness
Nurses should not underestimate the value of supportive interaction with patients
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Developing an end-of-life benchmark in acute care
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Using the SKIN Bundle to prevent pressure ulcers
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Using action plans for COPD patients
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'I overheard conversations that troubled and confused me'
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Early warning scores: effective use
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How to develop patient trust in anorexia treatment
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Can adapted EWS improve response to deterioration?
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Simulation: can it eliminate failure to rescue?
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Caring for critically injured soldiers
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Using an accreditation scheme to demonstrate quality in mental healthcare settings
News
New guidelines for care of children in emergency settings
Minimum requirements for how children in emergency settings should be treated, including nurse staffing requirements, have been set out in new standards.
Premature baby care improvements highlighted
Half of premature babies of 27 and 28 weeks gestation are now born in a specialist unit due to improvements in management of care, research suggests.
Bedside care devices not sufficient for nurses' information needs
Intensive care bedside devices “do not adequately support” the information needs of nurses and may affect error rates, according to a German study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Woman dies at Stepping Hill
A 60-year-old woman, believed to have been poisoned by contaminated saline at a hospital, has died, police said.
M5 crash sister praised
The sister in charge of the critical care unit at the hospital which recveived victims of the crash on the M5 motorway in November has been recognised for her calm professionalism during the crisis.
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Minor injuries unit could host alcohol interventions, suggests a pilot study
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Post-natal women 'at higher TB risk'
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Police assist London Ambulance Service during strike
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Older patients 'feel safer' the more visible nurses are
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Nurses' 'lack of trust in diagnosis' presents barrier to organ donation
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CQC to publish report on failing NHS trust
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COPD patients requiring ventilation method transition are 'at higher risk'
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Newly qualified nurses 'can handle pressure of ICU'
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Paediatric intensive care units 'understaffed'
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Parents 'want to be present' at child's resuscitation
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'Hiving off important responsibilities devalues nurses' skills'
News that a West Midlands trust is to extend a scheme whereby unemployed people deliver patient care makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Nursingtimes.net Archive
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Opinion
How it was fifty years ago
Watching some episodes of Melvyn Bragg’s series ‘Reel History’ on BBC television recently about the start of the NHS and the opening of the M1 Motorway, I was reminded of the time I was driven by ambulance on the newly constructed M1 Motorway from London to Birmingham when I was working as a staff nurse at the Bedford General Hospital in 1959.
Favourites from the archive
How to measure and record vital signs to ensure detection of deteriorating patients
Staff need to recognise and act appropriately when patients deteriorate. This article gives practical advice on using basic observations to monitor patients
Behind the Headlines
All-metal hips need more corrective surgery
“Experts are calling for controversial metal-on-metal hip implants to be banned,” according to The Guardian.
