This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
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...
Protection of workers against accidents at work has been evident in UK law since the early days of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. It was not until relatively recently that...
The NMC has launched a 12-month Careline pilot for nurses, midwives and nursing associates who are involved in fitness to practise processes. The free and confidential support service is operated by...
Smith et al (2019) cite data showing that in Scotland, where 89% of older adults take one or more prescribed medications, there is a projected 25% increase in over-75s with complex health and social...
‘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...
There is extensive evidence from epidemiological studies that combined oral contraceptives offer a reduction in the risk of ovarian, endometrial and colorectal cancers. Additionally, intrauterine and...
The ONS (2019) report states that there were 6507 suicides in the UK and 352 in Ireland in 2018, and that the UK male suicide rate of 17.2 deaths per 100 000 represents a significant increase from the...
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),...
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;...
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