Clinical Practice

Swiss Cheese Model illustrating multiple infection prevention layers that help reduce transmission.

The Swiss Cheese Model: Understanding How We Pr...

Why does infection prevention rely on several safeguards? Explore the Swiss Cheese Model using familiar ward examples, hand hygiene and equipment cleaning.

The Swiss Cheese Model: Understanding How We Pr...

Why does infection prevention rely on several safeguards? Explore the Swiss Cheese Model using familiar ward examples, hand hygiene and equipment cleaning.

The 5 Ps of sexual history taking: Partners, Practices, Protection from STIs, Past history of STIs and Pregnancy intention or prevention.

Taking a Sexual History: The 5 Ps

Learn how to take a sexual history using the 5 Ps: Partners, Practices, Protection from STIs, Past STI history and Pregnancy, with a practical UK nursing approach.

Taking a Sexual History: The 5 Ps

Learn how to take a sexual history using the 5 Ps: Partners, Practices, Protection from STIs, Past STI history and Pregnancy, with a practical UK nursing approach.

Five people experiencing different qualities of pain, including shoulder aching, shooting lower back pain, burning arm pain, gripping abdominal pain and chest discomfort.

Why Does Pain Feel Different?

Why can one pain burn while another aches, shoots, grips or feels heavy? This teaching blog looks at what those descriptions can tell you during a nursing pain assessment, and...

Why Does Pain Feel Different?

Why can one pain burn while another aches, shoots, grips or feels heavy? This teaching blog looks at what those descriptions can tell you during a nursing pain assessment, and...

Male student nurse in grey scrubs washing his hands at a clinical sink on a hospital ward, with a patient in the background.

Hand Hygiene: What Are You Actually Removing Fr...

Hand hygiene is not only about having visibly clean hands. Follow the journey of microorganisms through patient care, see where the Five Moments interrupt transmission, and understand why hand rub,...

Hand Hygiene: What Are You Actually Removing Fr...

Hand hygiene is not only about having visibly clean hands. Follow the journey of microorganisms through patient care, see where the Five Moments interrupt transmission, and understand why hand rub,...

Student nurse in grey reviewing a 12-lead ECG with a registered staff nurse in blue at a UK hospital workstation.

ECG Interpretation for Student Nurses: Rate, Rh...

Learn a repeatable, step-by-step approach to ECG interpretation, with worked rate calculations, labelled complexes and common rhythm examples.

ECG Interpretation for Student Nurses: Rate, Rh...

Learn a repeatable, step-by-step approach to ECG interpretation, with worked rate calculations, labelled complexes and common rhythm examples.

Student nurse in grey scrubs preparing ECG leads beside an adult patient in a hospital bed before recording a 12-lead ECG.

12-Lead ECG Explained: Why 10 Electrodes Create...

Learn why a 12-lead ECG uses 10 electrodes, then place all 10 correctly using UK/IEC colours, anatomical landmarks and a practical step-by-step method.

12-Lead ECG Explained: Why 10 Electrodes Create...

Learn why a 12-lead ECG uses 10 electrodes, then place all 10 correctly using UK/IEC colours, anatomical landmarks and a practical step-by-step method.