A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
Clinical
<p>Acute compartment syndrome is a common but potentially life threatening condition
<p>Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) are considered integral to multidisciplinary
<p>About 3.5 million children attend UK A&E departments every year (Royal Co
<p>Wrist injuries are frequently encountered in emergency departments (Chakravarty e
<p>The knee joint is the largest and most complicated joint in the body (Snell 2000)
<p>Acute pancreatitis is a common emergency with potentially devastating consequence
<p>The Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Teaching Trust implemented a nurse led
<p>Government documents and reforms to improve care delivery have prompted many heal
<p>Shortening waiting times in A&E departments is high on the government age
<p>Staff working in London teaching hospitals rarely see cases of cold induced injur
<p>Urinary retention is the most common urological emergency encountered by nursing
<p>Nurses based in an emergency assessment area at Birmingham Heartlands and Soli-hu
<p>Ankle sprains are among the most common injuries seen in A&E, and so constitute a large part of emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) workload. This implies a responsibility for ENPs to ensure that this group of patients is managed correctly.</p>
<p>In this paper we describe the thinking behind a three-year pilot development programme for five consultant nurses across an emergency care system.</p>
<p>Despite multidisciplinary approaches to fire prevention, fires continue to cause casualties and fatalities (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2001).
<p>There are an estimated 1.9 million adults with asthma in the UK, equating to about 7 per cent of the population (Bourke and Brewis 1998, Davies-Gray 2000).
<p>There are more than 30,000 children on the child protection register (CPR) (NSPCC 2003) in the UK today, yet these known statistics are only a fraction of the total number of children at risk; most cases of child abuse go unreported (Acosta 2003).</p>
<p>The impact of specialist nurses on the skill retention, expertise and job satisfaction of ‘generalist’ nurses, and of course on patient experience and outcome, continues to be the subject of comment (Castledine 2002, Wright 2002).
