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Nurses need to be aware of the principles of infection control and the factors affecting wound infection to develop effective strategies to prevent infection and cross-infection.
Shock is a life-threatening condition and to provide the best treatment, nursing care needs to focus on the cause of shock.
Pulse oximetry is a useful way to monitor oxygen saturation in patients in a variety of clinical settings. Nurses need to understand the principles of oxygen transport and delivery to use pulse oximetry effectively in clinical practice.
Lesley Simpson discusses the risks associated with indwelling urethral catheters and identifies how nurses can reduce them with proactive management.
The incidence of skin cancer is increasing and nurses are in an ideal position to help patients prevent and identify the disease at an early stage.
There is much debate surrounding the topic of immunisation. Helen McCarthy discusses the immunisation process with an emphasis on risk assessment.
