| |
Article Title |
Author(s) |
Pages |
|
|
|
Editorial board
|
|
i
|
|
|
|
What’s diving got to do with it?
The term ‘transferable skills’ is used throughout healthcare, both in education and clinical, to describe those skills gained or learnt in one area that can be readily used in others. These generally ...
|
Heather McClelland
|
195-196
|
|
|
|
Fast Track: One hospital’s journey
Summary: This paper is the first of two articles discussing the implementation and evaluation of an innovative Fast Track process. This current paper explains how one metropolitan hospital identified ...
|
Shane Combs,
Rose Chapman,
A. Bushby
|
197-203
|
|
|
|
Acute coronary syndrome nurses: Perceptions of other members of the health care team
Summary: Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are a major health care problem and result in a large number of hospital admissions each year. Nurses across the NHS are being empowered to undertake a growing ...
|
Maria Dunckley,
Tom Quinn,
Rumona Dickson,
Rav Jayram,
Christine Wright,
Ruth McDonald
et al.
|
204-209
|
|
|
|
Education to improve the triage of mental health patients in general hospital emergency departments
Summary: General hospital emergency departments (EDs) are obvious places for individuals in distress or in a mental health crisis to seek assistance. However, triage nurses admit to a lack of expertis...
|
Diana E. Clarke,
Anne-Marie Brown,
Linda Hughes,
Lori Motluk
|
210-218
|
|
|
|
Patient dependency in the emergency department (ED): Reliability and validity of the Jones Dependency Tool (JDT)
Summary: Background: Rising patient demand in emergency departments is an international problem. Patient dependency (the degree of nursing care required) has major implications for nursing. Nurse skil...
|
Robert Crouch,
Susan Williams
|
219-229
|
|
|
|
Experiences of adding nurses to increase medical competence at an emergency medical dispatch centre
Summary: Introduction: Prehospital care begins when the call is placed to the emergency medical dispatch (EMD) centre and ends when the patient is cared for at the emergency department. The highly tec...
|
Kerstin Forslund,
Mona Kihlgren,
Venke Sorlie
|
230-236
|
|
|
|
Paramedics’ perceptions of their role in providing pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment: Qualitative study
Summary: Background: The majority of ambulance services in England provide pre-hospital thrombolysis, following publication of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. A meta-analysi...
|
Helen Cox,
John W. Albarran,
Tom Quinn,
Kathrine Shears
|
237-244
|
|
|
|
An epidemic of abuse and violence: Nurse on the front line
Summary: This commentary paper highlights the every day reality for nurses facing episodes of violence and aggression while working in the health care system in Western Australia and identifies future...
|
Rose Chapman,
Irene Styles
|
245-249
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH REVIEW
Houry D., Kemball R., Rhodes K.V., Kaslow N.J., 2006. “Intimate partner violence and mental health symptoms in African American female ED patients”. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 24, 444–450
|
Heather McClelland
|
250-251
|
|
|
|
Book review
With the current emphasis within the health service on the delivery of evidence based healthcare, the ability to be able to critically appraise literature is an essential skill. Identifying papers tha...
|
Rebecca Hoskins
|
252
|
|
|
|
Book review
Philosophy and A&E nursing are at a first glance not directly a logical choice. Reading a book, written by a philosopher, is not easy, although the author did quite a good job in making it readabl...
|
Piet Machielse
|
252-253
|
|
|
|
Book review
It truly is a sad reflection that there is even cause to write about such matters – but thank goodness it has been done because it highlights the realities for many people who are suffering the detrim...
|
Lorna McInulty
|
253
|
|
|
|
Announcement: Inaugural Scientific Meeting
|
|
256
|
|
|
|
Call for Papers: Emergency Care Innovation 2007
|
|
257
|
|
|
|
Index to volume 14
|
|
I-VII
|
|
