October the 12th of this year marked the 20th World Arthritis Day. Currently, around one in seven people in the UK currently live with arthritis and this figure is expected to rise to one in four in the next 15 years.
This article by Dr Wendy Holden, outines how the charity Arthritis Action helps those with the condition and how you can help your patients who have arthritis.
Exudate management is one of the most challenging aspects of wound care. In this article, Sylvie Hampton outlines why managing exudate is important and how dressings contribute to effective healing.
For most of us, discussing anything to do with our bowels will only happen when hell freezes over. But the state of our stools should be talked about in order to prevent constipation and/or its associated complications.
In this article, Frank Booth outlines prevention and management strategies.
For many patients, particularly the elderly, multiple comorbidity management requires many different drugs. In this article, Dr Aisling Koning outlines the issues of polypharmacy.
This article was first published on the Health-Care Arena website and has been produced by kind permission of Pentland Medical.
This case study, adapted from Rosemary Rose's Molnlycke Wound Academy Scholarship and Awards winning entry, suggests that negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and allogeneic keratinocytes can be used successfully as an alternative to a skin graft to heal full thickness skin loss head wounds.
Society's attitude to death today is far different to that of 100 years ago. Granted, it isn't so commonplace anymore - technology, drugs and gizmos keep us alive longer even than our allocated three score years and ten!
As healthcare professionals, we shoudl be used to discussing death, we see it every day. But we are also members of society, so perhaps our attitude has also changed and death is seen as a failure.
Sue Smith explores this fascinating subject
How easy is it, in this fast-paced, short-staffed world of nursing, to remember the names of your patients?
Brian Booth has a few thoughts...
Do leaders and managers ever feel vulnerable? Have you ever sat in a meeting and suddenly thought "Do I really know what I am talking about? Is this me? I don't know what the hell is going on? And if you have, do you tell anyone, or even admit it to yourself?
I his latest blog, David Gilbert shares his thoughts on the vulnerabilities of a patient director.
Developments in both the sophistication and affordability of mobile technologies using custom-designed hardware and software are changing how healthcare is delivered, received and researched. Healthcare workers and pioneers alike are embracing mobile technology, including social media educational tools, mobile apps, wearables and other digital tools.
Here, Dr Aisling Koning outlines potential applications in care.
This article was first published on the Health-Care Arena website and has been produced by kind permission of Pentland Medical.
When you watch Countdown, are you better at the word games or does the maths game make you sqeal with excitement? Ever wondered what happens to all those stats you send to 'the beast'?
Well, Jon Hannah of NHSIQ, reveals all. Jon or a member of his team, will be a regular contributor to PCNR, keeping us up to date with developments and news.
How difficult is it to understand 'foreigners'? Not just the ones from countries where English if not the first language, but those from areas outside of your own - what does the phrase 'Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs mean?
Does it matter if you don't quite get it? Well yes, if you are trying to communicate with your patient.
Here, Joan Pons-Laplana shares his experiences.
Following a hugely successful conference in Brighton, we are delighted to announce that ACA Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held on the 23rd and 24th May 2016 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
The theme of this year's programme is Transitions in Continence Care.
There will also be an extensive exhibition which will feature over 50 companies offering new innovative products and practical solutions.
It's not often nurses and other health care professionals get something for nothing Of course, there's PCNR, which is free, and now there is another site that is a vaulable resource.
We all love a new therapy, especially in the world of wound care. A novel treatment is combined ultrasound and electro-field stiumlation.
Things are moving fast at the NMC. All the latest news is here.
Against a backdrop of a lifetime career as a health care professional working with children and families, Kate H-N has produced six Relax ‘n Learn Teaching Tales, designed to raise and tackle some common issues that affect children’s happiness and which, if left unspoken about and not addressed, can lead to unnecessary unhappiness with mental health problems and behavioural disturbance, which typically attract unhelpful, stigmatising labelling. In this article, Kate outlines how Eric the Oracle can help develop the emotional health of children.
