Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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Hip fracture patients usually arrive at hospital in extreme pain that can be hard to control. Mandy Layzell has helped to introduce a nurse-led service to assess patients in A&E and give them a femoral block by injection to anaesthetise the pain.
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Organ donation is a complex and sensitive area. It is complicated by ethical, legal and social factors, as well as differing views about consent. ⋯ Despite previous calls for a change to the opt-in consent system used in England, and the move towards presumed or opt-out consent in Wales, the Organ Donation Taskforce rejected any such policy change in England, in favour of improving the infrastructure and systems surrounding organ donation. This article examines the various systems of consent for organ donation and strategies for improving organ donation rates.