Role of the clinical nurse specialist in stoma care
Aim: Rapidly evolving roles in nursing require exploration and description. This review aims to examine the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in stoma care from the UK perspective. Design: A...
Assessing the impact of stoma leakage
For people living with a stoma leakage is unpredictable. Despite advances in stoma products, leakage can lead to soiling and this, along with worrying about leakage, can significantly affect patients’...
Transport decisions: acute coronary syndrome and high-risk electrocardiograms
Patients experiencing a high-risk non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction are likely to benefit from prehospital medical contact, transport to a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centre and earl...
Wound infection, inflammation and biofilm
This module aims to help professionals understand wound infection and its impact on the patient, including the roles of biofilm and inflammation. It discusses how to recognise the signs and symptoms o...
Economic burden of stomas
Background: Stomas divert waste from the small intestine (ileostomy), large intestine (colostomy) or ureters (urostomy), and complications are common. Aims: This study evaluated healthcare resource ut...
Wound Hygiene: four simple steps to proactive healing
This session aims to: - Outline the burden of chronic/hard-to-heal wounds in the UK Introduce you to the concept of Wound Hygiene - Understand why biofilm is a barrier to healing - Describe and di...
Preparing patients for surgery and life with a stoma
Stoma surgery is a life-changing event and patients must subsequently make significant adjustments to their lives....
Impact of education on ostomates' self-care abilities
An intestinal stoma is a surgically formed exteriorisation of the large or small bowel on to the anterior abdomen wall, to enable faeces to be excreted from the body. Patients living with a stoma may ...
Inhaler-induced recovery of skin complications
Peristomal skin complications (PSCs) are relatively common in ostomy patients, particularly in those with ileostomies. Non-healing irritation presents a clinical challenge and leads to pain and impair...
The voice of stoma care nurses
Background: This article is part two of a series presenting the findings of stakeholder surveys with ostomates and stoma care nurses (SCNs) for stoma services in England. Part one explored the experie...
Co-designing health services for people living with HIV who have multimorbidity: a feasibility study
This study explored the feasibility of using an experience-based co-design service improvement methodology to develop a new approach to managing multimorbidity in people living with HIV. Patients with...
Evolution of a video project to translate research findings about patient experiences into improved clinical care
People living with HIV are at an increased risk of developing cancer. Cancer health professionals could benefit from improving and updating their knowledge of HIV and their understanding of patient ex...