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Francesca Ramadan

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Preventing future falls: strategies for success

The underlying causes of a fall are often multifactorial, with the World Health Organization (WHO) (2007) suggesting that risks can be grouped into four categories: biological, behavioural,...

Community nursing and the digital technology revolution: the past, present and future

The technology revolution is not necessarily new. Initiatives like the shift from a paper-based model to a digital e-community service model were implemented in 2019 in the Whittington Health NHS...

Optimising chronic obstructive pulmonary disease care: an overview for the community nurse

In qualitative interviews with 10 asthma and COPD specialised nurses, two primary barriers were identified: the patient–nurse relationship and available resources (Gustafsson and Nordeman, 2018)....

Managing incontinence-associated dermatitis in the community: an overview

Community nurses, with their wide-ranging scope of practice and access to patients' daily lives, are well-placed to support individuals with a condition as intimate and personal as IAD. When the...

Exploring the barriers to oral healthcare promotion and provision in the community

The aforementioned study discussed has shed a clear and necessary light on the uncertainty experienced by community nurses in providing oral healthcare to older people and other patient demographics...

Manual lymphatic drainage: the evidence behind the efficacy

Most studies on the efficacy of MLD have shown mixed results; although some report improvement in the metric in question, it is often not statistically significant, and results vary between studies....

Skin tone and wound care: bridging the knowledge and care provision gap

A systematic review of diversity in dermatologic randomised control trials showed that, while racial and ethnic data reporting is becoming increasingly transparent, inclusive representation remains...

Diabetes Management and the Role of the Community Nurse: a Holistic Perspective

Ideally, it is the role of any healthcare provider to empower and support patients to be confident in and capable of self-management of both types of diabetes; however, the reality is that...

Night-time compression: a valuable addition to the lymphoedema management toolkit

The recommended treatment of lymphoedema is based on a decongestive lymphoedema therapy (DLT), which is composed of two phases: an intensive phase, combining manual lymphatic drainage, multilayer...

Intermittent self-catheterisation: the community nurse's role in identifying and overcoming the barriers

ISC is recognised as the gold standard for the treatment of neurological bladders, promoting improved independence, quality of life and wellbeing (Holroyd, 2018) and reducing the risk of infection and...

Infection prevention and control: a guide for community nurses

Standard infection control precautions (SICPs) are the basic IPC measures necessary to reduce the risk of spreading pathogens. Much guidance on the practice of SICPs focuses on the clinical setting;...

Adverse cutaneous drug reactions: manifestations, diagnosis and management

ACDR, also known as toxidermia, are skin manifestations resulting from drug administration. ACDR are the most common adverse drug reactions reported in the literature, with the overall incidence in...

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