Eden Rose
Eden Rose
Complex regional pain syndrome is a rare and not well understood chronic pain condition that can affect anyone, irrespective of age and sex. It is important that nurses and the wider healthcare team are aware of the symptoms and recommended...
Anne Mills
Anne Mills
Nurses in all settings have an important role in preventing non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes mellitus. They have multiple daily opportunities in their practice to discuss hea...
Caroline Bestwick,Caroline Yates,Vanda Carter
Caroline Bestwick
The promotion of oral healthcare is an integral part of nursing care. However, research has shown that staff in hospitals and community care settings often lack oral healthcare skills. This article details a quality improvement project in w...
Pain assessment and management for people with dementia in the community [0.03%]
社区老年痴呆症患者的疼痛评估与管理措施
Anne-Marie Coll,Rebecca Jones
Anne-Marie Coll
People with dementia commonly experience pain, but it is often unrecognised, unrelieved and remains an underlying issue as the condition progresses. As a result, pain management for people with dementia is inadequate. Community nurses have ...
Effective handovers on escalation of care for the deteriorating patient [0.03%]
病情恶化患者救治级别提升过程中有效的交接班措施
Andrew Parry,Nelson Selvaraj
Andrew Parry
Evidence suggests that improvements in clinical practice are required to ensure that deteriorating patients are rapidly identified and assessed in a systematic manner. The important step of escalating care involves a detailed handover to th...
Identification, assessment and treatment of urinary incontinence and bowel control issues [0.03%]
尿失禁和排便失控的识别、评估与治疗
Ann Yates
Ann Yates
Urinary incontinence and bowel control issues are prevalent within the general population and have significant adverse effects on peoples' daily lives and quality of life. This article examines the prevalence of urinary incontinence and bow...
Lucy Webb
Lucy Webb
Nurses are well placed to deliver brief opportunistic health promotion interventions during routine encounters with patients. Brief interventions have been shown to be effective in prompting behaviour change among people who engage in harmf...
Charlotte Bacchus
Charlotte Bacchus
Chronic pain can be debilitating and affects an increasing number of people in the UK due to an ageing population and the rising prevalence of comorbidities. Chronic pain can be primary, where it is not accounted for by another condition, o...
Cameron Arbuckle
Cameron Arbuckle
There is significant use of alternative diets by people living with cancer, with data suggesting this has continued to increase since the 1980s. Commonly used alternative diets include the ketogenic diet, Gerson therapy, alkaline diets and ...
Dietary management of adults with type 2 diabetes and the role of the nurse [0.03%]
2型糖尿病成人的饮食管理及护士的作用
Ruth Caroline Boocock
Ruth Caroline Boocock
Dietary strategies for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes can be effective in maintaining glycaemic control. In some cases, the use of specific and supervised dietary strategies can result in remission of the condition. Despite...