A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
Clinical
<p>One late shift, I came on duty and took over from a nurse from the previous shift
<p>Burns to the eye and surrounding structures present to the A&E department
<p>Acute shoulder injuries are regularly seen in A&E (Nicholson and Driscoll
<p>The aim of this article is to review basic and advanced methods of opening and cl
<p>There are many causes of painless loss of vision, however, it is difficult to dif
<p>As an A&E nurse, have you ever thought what it must be like for a patient
<p>This article explains tracheostomy suctioning and humidification.
<p>This article is a selected review of the research and literature regarding nurses
<p>Current trends suggest firearms related incidents in the United States will, by t
<p>Ophthalmic patients present to the A&E department with a wide range of pr
<p>This is a case study of the examination and treatment of a 20 year old male, fork
<p>Hugh McDonald is an emergency nurse practitioner with the authority to manage a d
<p>This article discusses meningococcal disease and outlines the role of the nurse in treating patients who may suffer from meningitis, one of the illnesses caused by meningococcal disease. It goes on to explain how nurses can support the relatives of these patients.
<p>The majority of eye injuries are superficial in nature and transient in their effects but place considerable demands on A&E services (MacEwan 1989).
<p>During recent years the term ‘trauma score’ has become commonplace in the everyday language of the A&E department. The idea of allocating a numerical score or code to the effects of injury was first developed in America in the 1960’s, and so it is not a new concept.
<p>A&E nursing has been one of the most fervent supporters of the development of nurse practitioners, with some 98 A&E departments in the UK (36 per cent of the total number) claiming to offer such a service in a survey carried out in 1996 (Tye 1998).
<p>In an article in last month’s Emergency Nurse, the need for universal precautions was identified to protect both health care workers (HCWs) and patients from the risk of blood borne virus transmission (Perry and Barnett 1998).
<p>This article outlines the nurse’s role in treating people who are experiencing an anaphylactic reaction. It originally appeared in Nursing Standard (1998) 12,47,49-55. Readers who successfully completely an assessment on that occasion may not do so again</p>
