British Journal of Nursing : BJN

Freelance medical writer Christine Clark ([email protected]) reports on an online meeting held in March 2023 as part of a series on the risks of exposure to hazardous drugs for nurses working in oncology.

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In her series on the early steps of a newly qualified nurse, Heather George , Critical Care Staff Nurse, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary ([email protected]), considers how experience is improving her confidence.

BACKGROUND: Effective and timely referral, treatment and care of people with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) depend on clinical staff possessing highly specialised knowledge and skills. Because of the fragmented nature of the CTCL workforce, specialist education was delivered via a webinar. AIM: The study aimed to comprehensively evaluate the webinar and test the validity of using an evaluation model for a one-off education event. METHODS: The webinar was evaluated using Moore et al's conceptual model for evaluation of education...

Margaret Anne Garner , Lymphoedema Specialist, Strathcarron Hospice, NHS Forth Valley ([email protected]), was the winner in the Chronic Oedema Nurse of the Year category of the BJN Awards 2023.

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AIM: To explore the perceived barriers experienced by rehabilitation case managers to discussing sexual function with clients after a traumatic injury, at the point of initial assessment. Study design: Small-scale semi-structured interviews were conducted to inform baseline measures for a service improvement proposal within the author's employing company. A qualitative phenomenological methodology was used for the interpretation of the data, with application of framework analysis. FINDINGS: Case managers within the company do not routinely ask clients about issues of sexual dysfunction at the initial assessment of rehabilitation needs...

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The UK needs a coherent approach to advanced nursing roles, says Sam Foster , Executive Director of Professional Practice, Nursing and Midwifery Council, which the NMC is now in the process of considering.

BACKGROUND: Few longitudinal studies have focused on patients' cancer pain experience when receiving care in a multidisciplinary pain management clinic (MPMC). This study aimed to evaluate the experiences of a cohort of cancer patients newly engaged in a MPMC. METHODS: This study was based on a longitudinal approach in which data were collected over a 6 months period at the King Hussein Cancer Centre in Jordan. The study adopted the Arabic version of the Brief Pain Inventory to identify the level and prevalence of cancer pain, and to identify the impact of receiving care at the MPMC on patients' pain experience...

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Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an arrhythmia that originates from the ventricles of the heart and presents as a wide and prolonged QRS complex on the electrocardiograph of greater than 120 milliseconds, with a heart rate of over 100 beats per minute. VT can occur as a pulsed or pulseless rhythm. Pulseless VT occurs when the ventricles cannot effectively pump blood out of the heart, therefore resulting in no cardiac output. Pulsed VT can manifest with the patient presenting asymptomatically, or with symptoms of reduced cardiac output resulting from poor ventricular filling...

BACKGROUND: Teleconsultations were introduced for cancer surgery follow-up to ease pressure on hospital services and facilitate patients' access to those services. There is limited evidence on patients' perceptions of this swift shift in service provision. AIMS: The purpose of this qualitative systematic review was to explore patient experiences of teleconsultations within NHS cancer surgery follow-up services to better understand patient perceptions, satisfaction and acceptability of teleconsultations within cancer services...

John Tingle , Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, discusses several recent reports on clinical negligence and patient safety.

Family-centred care is a widely used but loosely defined model of care often used in children's nursing. Although this allows for flexibility in its application, it also means that nurses can have very different ideas about its meaning. Recent decisions about the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination programme for children under the age of 16 years in the UK and other countries have further confused this, as it has brought into question the relative position of children and their families in the decision-making process...

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BACKGROUND: The primary aim of undergraduate, pre-registration nursing education is to prepare students to be nurses who can apply theory to practice, with clinical placements to support the practice element of the clinical programme. However, the theory-practice gap is a longstanding problem within nurse education, as nurses continue to practise with incomplete knowledge to support their actions. PROBLEM: In April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a reduction in clinical placement capacity that affected student learning opportunities...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes (COVID-19) has proven to be the greatest challenge to modern global health care, infecting more than 450 million people worldwide and responsible for just over 6 million deaths. Over the past 2 years there have been major advances in the treatment of COVID-19, including a significant reduction in the number of individuals developing severe symptoms, since the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines and the advances in pharmacological treatments...

Qualified nurses are accountable for selecting a suitable containment product for care home residents, which can be challenging for both the resident and health professional. Absorbent incontinence products are the most commonly used products for containing leakage. The purpose of this observational study was to review and understand how effective the Attends Product Selector Tool is when used to assess a resident for an appropriate disposable incontinence product and the in-use experience of products in relation to containment, product use and effectiveness...