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Abatacept for rheumatoid arthritis.
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Accountability issues in an English emergency department: A nursing perspective
(Article)Introduction: Nurses confront doubts about their accountability and how it affects their clinical practice daily in the complex environment of an emergency department. Therefore, nurses’ experiences can provide vital ... -
Adjusting to the assistant practitioner role.
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Administering anticipatory medications in end-of-life care: A qualitative study of nursing practice in the community and in nursing homes
(Article)Background: In the United Kingdom, an approach to improving end-of-life care has been the introduction of ‘just in case’ or ‘anticipatory’ medications. Nurses are often responsible for deciding when to use anticipatory ... -
Administering questionnaires to older people: Rigid adherence to protocol may deny and disacknowledge emotional expression
(Article)This paper draws on data from a larger study conducted in care home facilities in: Seattle, USA; West Sussex and Surrey in the UK; and in the lower North Island in New Zealand. Two extracts from interactions between the ... -
Advance Care Planning for older people: The influence of ethnicity, religiosity, spirituality and health literacy
(Article)Older people from cultural and ethnic minorities have low access to palliative or end-of-life care and there is poor uptake of Advance Care Planning by this group across a number of countries where Advance Care Planning ... -
Advance care planning for people with dementia: Ordinary everyday conversations
(Article)Advance care planning for people with dementia has become a focus of dementia care policies in developed countries. In New Zealand, the framework for dementia care relies on the person with dementia having a level of ... -
Advance care planning: The role of the nurse.
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‘And so I took up residence’:The experiences of family members of people with dementia during admissionto an acute hospital unit
(Article)It is estimated that a quarter of acute hospital beds are in use by older people with dementia at any one time. Little empirical research has been carried out that has specifically examined the day-to-day input of family ... -
Antibiotics and antiseptics for venous leg ulcers: A review of the literature
(Article)A review of the effects of systemic antibiotics, topical antibiotics or antiseptics on the healing of venous leg ulcers found that there is currently no research to support the routine use of systemic antibiotics to promote ... -
Anxiety and Depression in People with Intellectual Disabilities: Advances in Interventions
(Book)This book will focus on intervention strategies for treating anxiety and depression in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The rationale for this theme is the lack of an adequate evidence base for assessment and ...