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Practice
Education to increase sexual health screening
A sexual health outreach team found that combining educational sessions with testing increased uptake of screening among young people
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
Foreign body ingestion in children
Gagging, choking, vomiting and refractory wheezes are classic signs that children may have ingested foreign bodies
Little voice: giving young patients a say
How a patient experience questionnaire for young outpatients was developed
Broaching sexual health issues with patients
Sexual health problems are a public health issue. Nurses are often reluctant to discuss this topic with patients so advice is given on how to approach the subject
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Managing eczema
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Use of emollients in dry skin conditions
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An infant with intussusception
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Improving training in motivational interviewing
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NICE’s first guideline on idiopathic childhood constipation and its implications for nurses
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Enabling school staff to undertake clean intermittent catheterisation
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Solving soiling problems needs collaboration between family, health and education services
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How to manage bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in under-16s
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Minimum standards for school toilets are needed to improve child health
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Sex education for children with learning disabilities: rolling out a national resource
News
Press portrayal of care leaves nurses exposed to abuse
Media scrutiny around poor examples of care may be changing the way the nursing is perceived by the public and exposing nurses to increasing levels of abuse, warn Australian researchers.
Few schoolchildren would 'consider nursing' as a career
Efforts must be made to improve the image of nursing as a career choice in secondary schools, Scottish nurse researchers have warned.
Obese patients 'prefer to be know as big'
Obese patients are not sensitive about discussing the issue of weight with health professionals but prefer to use more colloquial terminology, according to researchers in London.
Cancer Research UK report shows tobacco packaging targets teens
Campaigners have been arguing it for years but now a study has revealed children and teenagers agree that cigarette and tobacco packages have been designed to appeal to them.
Medics 'offered genital mutilation'
As many as 100,000 women in Britain have undergone female genital mutilations with medics in the UK offering to carry out the illegal procedure on girls as young as 10, it has been reported.
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DH orders audit of A&E data sharing on violent crime
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Video games could help adolescents with depression
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'Hearing voices' common in fifth of adolescents
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£1.5m insulin pump funding for young patients announced
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School nurses are 'invisible' to teenagers
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RCN updates position on emergency contraception
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Syphilis test kits 'gave false results', say HPA
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Pupils to book nurse appointments by text
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Nursing Times finds its longest subscriber
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School nursing badly hit by lack of investment, job cuts and 'poaching', warns RCN
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Opinion
"School nurses need the tools to meet government vision"
Despite school nurses’ remarkable contribution to the health of young people, we are facing a shortage of these vital practitioners - and increasing demands for their services.
Behind the Headlines
PE lessons 'put girls off exercise'
“Schoolgirls are being put off exercise and sport by their PE lessons,” The Daily Telegraph has reported.
