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Monitoring nurse prescribing - safe practice or intrusive bureaucracy?
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Antidepressant prescribing in England: patterns and costs
(Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, Physician Postgraduate Press, 2020-04-16)Objective: The number of prescriptions for antidepressants (ADs) in England and Wales has almost doubled in the past decade. The objective of this article is to describe the current prescribing rates of different antidepressants ... -
Simple steps to prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia in non-intubated patients: a quality improvement project.
(British Journal of Nursing, Mark Allen Group, 2021-01-28)Background: Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) affects approximately 1.5% of UK inpatients. As well as leading to significant morbidity and mortality, HAP increases burden on hospitals by lengthening hospital stay. At a ... -
Personal protective equipment for endoscopy in low-resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: guidance from the World Gastroenterology Organisation.
(Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Wolters Kluwer, 2020-09-08)Performance of endoscopic procedures is associated with a risk of infection from COVID-19. This risk can be reduced by the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). However, shortage of PPE has emerged as an important ... -
Early availability of laboratory results increase same day ward discharge rates.
(Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, De Gruyter, 2018-06-20)Background: Delayed discharge reduces hospital efficiency and inconveniences patients. Most hospitals discharge in the afternoon, whereas the most common admission time is mid-morning. Consequently, new patients wait for ... -
Personal protective equipment (PPE) guidance during a global pandemic: a statistical analysis of National perceived confidence, knowledge and educational deficits amongst UK‐based doctors.
(International Journal of Clinical Practice, Wiley, 2021-01-19)Introduction: On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic following the upsurge of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Unprecedented global demand for personal ... -
Managing do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation conversations in the community.
(British Journal of Community Nursing, Mark Allen Group, 2020-02-02)Clear, sensitive and timely communication with palliative and end-of-life (EoL) patients and their families is important. Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) conversations can help patients accept their ... -
Palliative care for chronic respiratory disease: integrated care in outpatient settings.
(British Journal of Community Nursing, Mark Allen Group, 2020-03-02)Chronic respiratory diseases are progressive and often life-limiting illnesses. Patients experience debilitating and troubling symptoms that impact on their quality of life. Despite this, there is under-recognition of ... -
Statin‐induced autoimmune necrotizing myositis - a single‐center case series highlighting this potentially life‐threatening but treatable condition.
(Clinical Case Reports, Wiley., 2020-10-27)Statin‐induced autoimmune necrotizing myositis is a rare but important cause muscle weakness. Withdrawal of the statin and steroid treatment alone may be insufficient treatment for SIANM. Targeted immunosuppression may be ... -
New matrons: stepping up during the pandemic.
(Nursing Management, RCNi, 2020-10-20)As new matrons taking up our posts in a pandemic we were entering uncharted territory. Guidance changed rapidly, services were redesigned, staff were shielding or off sick and anxiety levels were high. We both felt the ... -
Know your nurses
(The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2020-10-21)It was published in the Francis Report (2013) that patients should be able to clearly identify between a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Health Care Assistant (HCA). Within our Trust there is no clear data on who is who. ... -
Implementing the gold standard framework (GSF) into an outpatient dialysis unit
(The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2020-10-21)The aim is to provide the best end of life service to our renal patients, and reduce hospital admissions by facilitating preferred place of death. -
Nursing associates: an at-a-glance guide to the role
(The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2020-10-21)Nursing associates are trained to work with people of all ages and in a variety ofsettings in health andsocial care. The roleis a new generic nursing role in England that bridges the gap between health and care support workers ... -
Step together: integrating care for people with epilepsy and a learning disability
(British Institute of Learning Disability, 2020-11-17)This guidance does not recommend that only one type of professional or a particular team can or should be involved in leading epilepsy care for people with a learning disability and/or autism. More importantly it ... -
A structured, multi-disciplinary approach for the management of epilepsy for people with intellectual disabilities.
(Epilepsy Professional, British Epilepsy Association, 2020-10-17)The management of epilepsy in people with intellectual disability is often challenging and complex. Seizure freedom is more difficult to achieve in this population, and in the long-term, specialist support is likely to be ... -
Huddle Data Collection Tool (HDCT)
(The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2020-10-21)The Trust has designed and implemented a Huddle Data Collection tool to collect #Red2Green data to review patient flow constraints in the Trust. The tool is in use across the rehabilitation, medical and orthopaedic wards. ... -
Eslicarbazepine acetate response in intellectual disability population versus general population.
(Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Wiley., 2021-03-01)Background: A quarter of people with intellectual disability (ID) have epilepsy, compared to approximately one in a hundred across the general population. Evidence for the safe and effective prescribing of antiepileptic ... -
Clare Marlow.
(BMJ. British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.), BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2020-11-13)Consultant in palliative medicine Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (b 1971; q St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, 1994; MSc, FRCP), died from cancer on 27 April 2020. Clare was appointed as a consultant in 2005, ... -
Oedipism: an unusual case of auto-enucleation including mechanism of avulsion.
(European Journal of Ophthalmology, Sage Journals, 2020-11-13)Introduction: Self-inflicted enucleation, also known as auto-enucleation (AE) or Oedipism, is an uncommon and severe form of ocular injury which presents as an ophthalmic and psychiatric emergency. Usually known to occur ... -
Survey of nurses' knowledge and practice regarding medication administration using enteral tubes.
(Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2020-09-20)Aim and objectives: To identify the practice variation of the individual practitioners in medications' formulation modification for patients using enteral feeding tubing and to support health practitioners involved in this ...
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