British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)
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Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses a report revealing that hospital doctors are concerned about their ability to deliver safe patient care over the next 12 months.
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Foreign body ingestion and foreign body aspiration commonly affect young children between 6 months and 6 years. A large number of these events remain unwitnessed and asymptomatic while the swallowed foreign body traverses the gastrointestinal tract and is passed in the stool. ⋯ Deaths, although rare, have been reported with these dangerous foreign body ingestions in children where diagnoses were delayed. Nurses through their direct contact with children in different clinical settings play a vital role in managing foreign body ingestions.
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John Tingle, Reader in Health Law at Nottingham Trent University, discusses proposals for the introduction of a Rapid Resolution and Redress Scheme for families affected by severe avoidable birth injury.