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On 20 June 2017 – the United Nations World Refugee Day – Abbas et al (2018) convened a workshop during the 4th International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control in Geneva. The authors note...
The primary focus of the research in NMP to date has been on its impact on patients, practitioners and organisations (Courtenay et al, 2018; Carey et al, 2020). Other studies have identified...
The new guideline for NICE (2021) recommends that patients presenting with new or ongoing symptoms 4 weeks or later after an initial COVID-19 infection should have the following investigations done; a...
The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) (Royal College of Physicians, 2014) investigated the clinical records of 195 adults and children who died of asthma between February 2012 and January 2013....
I don't know about you, but I find it difficult when reading news and updates these days not to see COVID-19 everywhere I look! But a few non-COVID things have caught my eye this month, and one...
Enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is recommended by NICE, within its marketing authorisation, as an option for treating hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer in adults.
With the help of Prescribing and Therapeutics Training Ltd and the Journal of Prescribing Practice, you can earn your 1-hour CPD certificate.
St John's Wort is a herbal remedy that has been around for hundreds of years to treat mental health problems, and currently is bought over the counter for mild-to-moderate depression, as well as for...
This mixed methods study using a reasoned action approach in the Journal of Hospital Infection aimed to measure nurse independent prescribers' (NIPs) intention to manage patients, presenting with an...
When the implications of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic dawned, the race for effective vaccines and/or treatments began. However, as Dinis-Oliveira (2020) notes, the scientific approach ranged ‘from...
Fungal infections caused by dermatophytes, a group of fungi that invade and grow in dead keratin, causing infection that is normally confined to dead layers of skin. Because dermatophytes require...
Multidisciplinary working is vital to proactively manage the nutritional care of oncology patients, whether this is via oral nutritional support or prophylactic/reactive enteral feeding..
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