Nursing times
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This article outlines the report Turning the Corner: Improving Diabetes Care on the progress made since the launch of the National Service Framework for Diabetes. It highlights some of the challenges still to be met and provides up-to-date information on prevalence and treatment levels.
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Nurses are in an ideal position to use their clinical observations to highlight unmet needs in relation to device use. This paper explores issues that relate to medical devices. An overview is given of the medical device field and examples are given from a survey of the healthcare literature to determine the level of user involvement in device development.
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In a report published in 2005 the Inspectorate of Prisons explored the fact that many black and minority ethnic (BME) prisoners have poor perceptions of their treatment in all areas of prison life. It also attempted to identify barriers that still exist to delivering race equality in prisons and examined the extent to which prison healthcare departments are providing a racially aware health service that assesses and meets individual needs.
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During cardiac arrest the survival of the patient depends on a rapid response that provides high-quality treatment based on the latest guidelines. Administration of the correct drugs is an important aspect of this process and one in which nurses are taking an increasingly important role. This article will help nurses to understand the use of drugs in cardiac arrest resuscitation, explaining the rationale for their use, the dosage and any significant problems likely to be encountered.