Practice Nurse articles from August 2007

Practice Nurse archives from August 2007

Offering protection against influenza.(Clinical report)
August 17, 2007... By Nigel Higson, MA, BM, BCh, DRCOG, chairman, Primary Care Vaccination Group; Elaine Higson, SRN, NDN, senior practice nurse, Goodwood Court Medical Centre Higson N, Higson E. Offering protection against influenza. Practice Nurse 2007;...

Taking a sexual history.(Report)
August 17, 2007... he National Strategy for Sexual Health1 proposes an increased role for primary care in providing sexual health services. At the most basic level, it suggests that all primary healthcare teams should provide sexual history-taking. In the UK,...

Caring for patients with a learning disability.
August 17, 2007... earning disabilities, which are neither an illness nor a disease, affect about 1.5 million people in the UK.1 The Government has acknowledged that people who have a learning disability are among the most vulnerable and socially excluded in...

10 tips on a hirsutism.(Disease/Disorder overview)
August 17, 2007... Hirsutism has been described as 'the presence of terminal coarse hair growth in male patterns in women with normal or raised circulating androgen levels'.1 Male distribution may include facial hair (at the side of the face, chin and...

Avoiding, spotting and managing hypos.
August 17, 2007... ractice nurses are increasingly at the forefront of diabetes care. Insulin initiation is becoming a regular part of blood glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes, and the care of patients with type 1 diabetes is becoming more...

prescribing nurse.
August 17, 2007... Drug elimination is the process of removal of a drug from the body. This includes metabolism of the drug followed by its excretion from the body. Drug metabolism refers to a chemical alteration in the structure of the drug molecule. In most...

Patients say the funniest things.
August 17, 2007... atients say the funniest things, even if they don't actually mean to be amusing. Medical malapropisms are hugely entertaining. A choice one can make my day; I even keep a little black book in which to jot them down, so that I can share them...

Sobering statistics on drink-driving.
August 17, 2007... riving while drunk is almost universally acknowledged as potentially lethal to ourselves and other road users. In 2004 in England and Wales alone, there were 2,915 deaths on the road - against 496 people who died from HIV/AIDS in the whole of...

Taking a break.
August 17, 2007... ing ding ding - the familiar chime of the bell is followed by the excited shouts of 126 children and the clash of metal plates. It is breakfast time at the Nirmala Children's Village (NCV) in south India. I sit on the floor with seven of...

news.
August 17, 2007... Practice nurses under increased workload pressure Practice nurses are working much harder than they did a decade ago and taking on a greater proportion of the practice clinical workload, new DoH figures reveal. Two reports - one...