Malaria in pregnancy harms mothers and babies across Africa. Why pregnant women are vulnerable, WHO recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment with SP, insecticide-treated nets, safe treatment by trimester, and spotting severe malaria.
Most nosebleeds stop with simple first aid, but some are severe, especially in older adults on blood thinners. Correct pressure technique, common myths, assessing blood loss, packing and cautery care, and red flags.
Nurses are often present when bad news is given, and asked the hard questions afterwards. The SPIKES framework step by step, words that help and words that hurt, cultural considerations, and caring for yourself afterwards.
Skipped breaks, vending machine snacks and night-shift cravings take a toll. How to plan meals around shifts, what to eat on nights, staying hydrated, caffeine timing, meal prep on a budget, and protecting your long-term health.
Shoulder dystocia is an unpredictable obstetric emergency where the baby’s shoulder gets stuck after the head is born. Risk factors, the turtle sign, calling for help, McRoberts and suprapubic pressure, internal manoeuvres, and newborn and maternal care afterwards.
Drug-resistant infections are a growing global threat, with Africa and South Asia among the hardest hit. What AMR is, why it spreads, and practical ways nurses can protect antibiotics: timing, cultures, IV-to-oral switch, infection prevention and patient education.
People with psychosis are far more likely to be harmed than to harm others. Recognising psychosis, talking with someone experiencing hallucinations or delusions, antipsychotic side effects, physical health, stigma and family support.
Many patients rely on feeding tubes for nutrition. Types of tubes, safe feeding positions, flushing, giving medicines via tubes, PEG site care, refeeding syndrome, and recognising blockages, aspiration and buried bumper.
Mishandling a patient with a spinal injury can cause permanent paralysis. Who needs spinal precautions, manual in-line stabilisation, the five-person log roll step by step, pressure care, and neurogenic shock and autonomic dysreflexia.
Older people often take many medicines, and frailty makes them vulnerable to side effects, falls and hospital admissions. Recognising frailty, the Clinical Frailty Scale, high-risk medicines, deprescribing, and practical nursing actions.