Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Women: unique HFV transmission risks
Women are at risk of acquiring HIV infection through the same modes as men, which...
Sick building syndrome
Many people know about the dangers of outdoor air pollution. Car-exhaust emissions...
Promoting nursing research in India
Despite enormous community-based problems, nursing in India is largely designed to...
Investigating the sundown syndrome
Doreen Norton reviews the evidence for the existence of this mysterious condition...
Paediatric bone marrow transplants
For many patients, bone marrow transplantation offers the only realistic...
A load of PREPP
There are not many nurses who could say that they have the good fortune to attend...
Continuous ECG monitoring
ECG patient monitoring is now regarded as essential in providing a guide to the...
Conjunctival swabs: assessment of value
The practice of routine pre-operative conjunctival swabbing for patterns about to...
Quality of life: the patient’s perspective
The quality of life for long-term psychiatric patients in the community is an area...
Learning on the airwaves
This autumn sees the launch of a television series on nursing. The good news is...
Attitudes and beliefs in health promotion
There are two major problems involved in trying to identify nursing with a health...
The practice nurse
That FPCs and the GPs see the practice nurses as taking on a high proportion of the...
Advancing incontinence care
Incontinence is a huge and sometimes a hidden problem affecting at least two...
Charting courses
The proposals contained in Project 2000 (1) regarding the education and training...
First chance or last?
Since 1972, the Nelson Clinic at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, has provided...
Where nursing education should be based
For some considerable time nursing education was the sole responsibility of schools...
Figuring it out
The National Health Service, one of the largest institution in Europe, is a...
Assessing pain
Most of us have looked after someone in pain after an operation, but how well did...