Names I will never forget
As a nurse, there are some patients whose names I will never forget, as they have taught me something…
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Starvation in hospitals
Nurse Helen Cowan talks about starvation, dehydration and death in hospitals. “Kill by mouth” read a recent headline in the Sun…
All the colours of wound care
Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black: not the potting order for the coloured balls in snooker, but the colours…
No good deed will go unpunished
In the latest Tom Hanks movie, Pilot Sully was a hero as he landed the aircraft on the Hudson River,…
Where have all the nurses gone?
Adrift and deserted, the disappearance of the crew from the Mary Celeste remains a mystery. Walking onto a hospital ward…
Empathy is crucial in medicine
It does concern me when I see a nurse brushing off a patient or ignoring little signs of distress. It…
Popping pills, doing drugs: the nurse’s drug round
Drugs to alleviate symptoms; drugs to prolong life; drugs to counteract side effects of other drugs. Doctors’ prescribing powers in…