Clinical Spotlight

Well, as it comes to the end of the year, we usually like to take stock of what we have done and what we have achieved. This can be very relevant to your nursing professional development and education activities. Have you kept a comprehensive record of your continuous professional development

Research consistently shows that patients within the critical care setting have an increased incidence of pressure injuries and a significantly increased risk compared to hospitalised patients in other settings. This situation is generally related to the complex disease processes in play in critically ill patients and the necessary but not

Do you think of oxygen as a drug or a medicine? Consider the definition of drug as any “natural or artificially made chemical that is used as a medicine”1 and definition of medicine as “a substance taken into the body in treating an illness”.1 Then reflect on how oxygen is

As we marked Patient Safety Day on the 17th of September, we explore patient assessment as the cornerstone to patient safety. Only with comprehensive and accurate data, can we provide the correct and timely care for the patients in our care. Furthermore, the early recognition of the deteriorating patient (through

In August we had the opportunity to mark National Stroke Week. In general stroke is one of Australia’s biggest killers. At the cellular level when a stroke strikes, it attacks up to 1.9million brain cells per minute1. That statistic certainly give context to the catch phrase ‘time is brain’. But

Did you roll up your sleeve during National Blood Donor Week this month and donate some life-saving blood? In that time how many patients did you give blood too as part of caring for them?   Our critically ill patients sometimes need blood products as part of their treatment and