Bronchiolitis is an acute inflammation of the bronchioles that predominately affects children under the age of two years, but most common in the first 12 months of life. Respiratory syncytial virus...
A systemic review of safety data (Jatlaoui et al, 2015) for adverse events relating to use of EC in healthy women concludes that such events are rare..
You were excluded from the NHS Pension if employed as a practice nurse before September 1997. The effect upon your retirement prospects depends on how many years you missed out on the NHS scheme, and...
PCNs should ‘typically’ cover a population of between 30 000 and 50 000 people. PCNs are expected to be geographically contiguous and coterminous with local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and...
‘Practice nurses can support so much during the current pandemic—not least with their skills in assessment which can be carried out online and through virtual consultations with individuals and...
The first part of the mnemonic, SAFER, has two purposes. Firstly, to ensure that the clinician comes to the consultation with the medical knowledge, along with the clinical assessment skills and...
Worldwide, there are more than 400 million people with pre-diabetes, and it has been estimated that more than 470 million people will have prediabetes by 2030 (Middelbeek and Abrahamson, 2014).
Health professionals use several terms to describe irregular respiratory rates, including:.
The disease is most likely to occur in late winter or spring. Spread occurs via respiratory droplets, which can remain active and contagious, either airborne or on surfaces, for up to 2 hours (Chen,...
Recruitment into primary care remains slow with the number of nurses wanting to make the move out of the acute and community sectors generally outweighing the ability of general practice teams to...
I have not previously discussed COVID-19, as the information is changing daily and we are already bombarded with updates. However, I feel it is important to share one practice nurse's experience that...
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