This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
To indemnify someone against something is to mitigate the adverse financial consequences of a legal liability claim brought successfully against a practice nurse. It will most often be a claim by an...
This rise in measles cases, coupled with Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock's refusal to rule out mandatory vaccination, has initiated the debate around the use of such punitive measures as...
As a programme manager at the QNI, one aspect of my role has been to develop and write transition resources, such as Transition to District Nursing and more recently Care Home Nursing, which I had...
Self management of diabetes can be challenging and psychologically demanding. It requires informed choices, knowledge, personal application and health literacy. There is a need for ongoing education...
Research has shown that reduced emotional wellbeing and social functioning are at greater levels during the later stages of Parkinson's; however, a direct relationship between duration of disease and...
Many factors are attributed to weight gain such as: excessive food intake; sedentary lifestyle; sleep patterns; socio-economic deprivation; medications such as steroids and insulin; depression;...
According to attendees at a roundtable discussion in London, an injection of clarity is needed in NHS vaccination policies in order to help guide the actions of health professionals who provide the...
Point nine of The Code states:.
‘all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.’ .
After a visit to my own practice nurse, I realised that this was the career for me. I was mid-way through my degree and I had not given practice nursing a second thought until then. I was aware of the...
‘Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...
In most patients, in order to formulate an appropriate treatment plan diagnosis is based on a combination of the following factors:.
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