'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Infection Prevention and Control
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Practice
Multidimensional leg ulcer assessment
Assessment of leg ulcers is complex and should include examination of the wound and consideration of underlying causes, comorbidities and their psychosocial impact.
Using OSCE for mandatory training
Nurses are often unenthusiastic about mandatory training, but an objective structured clinical examination approach can improve staff engagement
Tackling infection in care homes
An audit involving an awards scheme, MRSA screening and staff education reduced healthcare-associated infections among care home residents
How to prevent the spread of norovirus
Norovirus has a significant impact on healthcare resources. Nurses can help to prevent its spread by maintaining good hand hygiene and infection control measures
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Toilet privacy in hospital
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Tackling C difficile with environmental cleaning
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Phlebitis: treatment, care and prevention
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ANTT: a standard approach to aseptic technique
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Can silver alloy catheters reduce infection rates?
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Involving service users in infection control practice
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IV therapy in the community
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Improving quality in care homes using an electronic tool
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Surveillance of surgical sites in primary care
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Hand hygiene: product preference and compliance
News
New infection threats emerging to replace MRSA and C. diff
A third of healthcare associated infections are now caused by bacteria that need to be tackled with different infection control techniques to MRSA and C. difficile, a report has warned.
Parents 'underestimate meningitis risks'
Parents’ misunderstandings about meningitis could be putting children at risk, according to new research.
New guidance on orthopaedic pin sites
Guidance on the effective care of orthopaedic pin sites and infection prevention has been published by the Royal College of Nursing.
Camera technology may be used to monitor hospital hand hygiene
Hospitals are being offered trials of camera technology developed for slaughterhouses that would see nursing practice monitored remotely from centres in other countries.
Millions of cancers 'caused by infection'
Bacteria, viruses and parasites cause around two million cases of cancer in the world each year, experts believe.
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NHS hygiene campaign cut hospital MRSA case numbers
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Drug 'reduces asthma symptoms'
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Blood group linked to gastric virus
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NICE updates infection control guidance for practice nurses
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HPA warns parents to keep whooping cough vaccinations updated
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Sixth death in flu outbreak nursing home
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Common antibioitics should be reworked to fight against resistance
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TB guidance published by RCN
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Syphilis test kits 'gave false results', say HPA
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Surgical site infections are the 'next HCAI challenge'
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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.
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Nursingtimes.net Archive
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Opinion
'It has always been my dream to nurse in a developing country...'
Caring for people with dengue fever, cobra bites and tuberculosis with few resources is all in a day’s work for James Cook.
Challenges in 'the community'...
As a student nurse you become used to moving around different areas of the hospital, from department to department and between specialities.
Favourites from the archive
Standard principles: hospital environmental hygiene and hand hygiene
This article describes standard principles for infection prevention and control focusing on hospital environmental hygiene and hand hygiene, both of which are crucial to the prevention of healthcare associated infection (HCAI). The guidelines do not address the additional infection control requirements of specialist settings, such as the operating department or for outbreak situations.
Behind the Headlines
Antibiotic resistance: we must act now, says WHO
“Human resistance to antibiotics could bring ‘the end of modern medicine as we know it’,” according to The Daily Telegraph.
Unique new flu virus found in bats
“We’ve had bird flu and swine flu - now scientists have found BAT FLU,” says the Daily Mail.
Patients 'good judge of hospital standards'
“Patients are accurately predicting which hospitals have high death rates and super-bug infections when they rate their treatment on a TripAdvisor-style website,” The Daily Telegraph has reported.
