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The first step in safety-netting involves a formal, holistic assessment of whether it is appropriate to send the patient home to monitor themselves, rather than arranging for the patient to undergo a...
Dewey (1897) strongly advocates the idea that learning occurs when individuals are immersed in participation (‘situated learning’) and this is at the heart of Lave and Wenger's (1991) work and...
Contemporary nursing practice is now the focus of global governments, as evidenced in the Nursing Now Campaign (Crisp and Iro, 2018), and as 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife (WHO, 2019b),...
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.’ .
In general practice, nurses have been using technology to record patient consultations for some time and familiarity with software has enabled a higher level of record-keeping and more thorough audit,...
Obesity is both highly prevalent and visible. Many consider it to be a disease state, and it is also a risk factor for developing other serious, long-term conditions. In the UK, over 26% of adults are...
AMR arises when the organisms that cause infection evolve methods to survive attempts to kill or suppress them. This can happen naturally, but it is accelerated by the inappropriate use of...
Shared decision-making, a key component of universal personalised care in The NHS Long Term Plan (NHS, 2019), aims to provide people with the same choice and control over their mental and physical...
As a result of AMR, standard treatments become ineffective and infections persist and may spread to others. The O'Neill (2016a) report estimated that by 2050, 10 million lives a year and a cumulative...
It is recommended by the European Region of WHO that UK coverage for all routine childhood vaccinations should achieve a 95% uptake rate (WHO, 1999). Not only does this provide direct protection for...
The NHS Staff and Learners' Mental Wellbeing Commission (Health Education England (HEE), 2019) reported that further research is needed into the causes of distress, fatigue, self-harm and suicide...
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