Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Application of CATS in the health service
Mike McManus follows last week’s article on Credit Accumulation and Transfer...
Continuing education and UK nurses
There are many lessons to be iearned from the US experience of mandatory continuing...
The process of continuing education
In the third of four articles based on her study tour of the United States, Nursing...
Justifying mandatory continuing education
In the second of four articles based on her study tour of the United States,...
Continuing education in the United States
The study tour reported in this series of articles took place between February 8...
Managing high- output fistulas
A problematic area of stoma therapy is care of the high-output fistula. When the...
Women: unique HFV transmission risks
Women are at risk of acquiring HIV infection through the same modes as men, which...
Sick building syndrome
Many people know about the dangers of outdoor air pollution. Car-exhaust emissions...
Promoting nursing research in India
Despite enormous community-based problems, nursing in India is largely designed to...
Investigating the sundown syndrome
Doreen Norton reviews the evidence for the existence of this mysterious condition...
Paediatric bone marrow transplants
For many patients, bone marrow transplantation offers the only realistic...
A load of PREPP
There are not many nurses who could say that they have the good fortune to attend...
Continuous ECG monitoring
ECG patient monitoring is now regarded as essential in providing a guide to the...
Conjunctival swabs: assessment of value
The practice of routine pre-operative conjunctival swabbing for patterns about to...
Quality of life: the patient’s perspective
The quality of life for long-term psychiatric patients in the community is an area...
Learning on the airwaves
This autumn sees the launch of a television series on nursing. The good news is...
Attitudes and beliefs in health promotion
There are two major problems involved in trying to identify nursing with a health...