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Drug interactions: Important considerations for nurse prescribers

The more different drugs a patient takes, the more likely it is that they will experience interactions. While most are relatively mild, others can be potentially harmful or even fatal
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Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management. NICE NG88, March 2018

This guideline covers assessing and managing heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia). It aims to help healthcare professionals investigate the cause of heavy periods that are affecting a woman’s quality of life and to offer the right treatments, taking into account the woman’s priorities and preferences, and to ensure that any intervention aims to improve the woman’s quality of life, rather than focusing on blood loss.
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• Simplified shingles programme aims to reverse declining uptake
• Expenses uplift holds out promise for GPN pay rises
• Leading nurse body calls for more investment in GPNs
• NMC launches consultation on overhaul of fitness to practise procedures
• CQC updates advice on staff immunisation
• Hepatitis B under-diagnosed and undertreated in UK
• COPD risk starts in childhood – but risk is modifiable
• Researchers identify five distinct types of diabetes
• Help save travellers a prescription cost by directing them to pharmacy
• Fruit juice and its role in a healthy diet

ECG acquisition and interpretation in primary care

The ECG is a widely used diagnostic tool with a broad spectrum of clinical applications in cardiovascular disease, and for many general practice nurses, performing an ECG has become an expected part of their daily workload. In the first of a series, Dr Ravi Assomull and Dr Sayan Sen provide a guide to the infrastructure needed for providing ECGs in primary care, a 10-step system for interpreting ECGs, a sample ECG report and a test. Key learning points include training and support needed, indications for ECG acquisition and tips for providing a safe service.

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• Travel health update
• Hypoglycaemia in hospital – How to prepare your patients
• Meeting the needs of people with a learning disability
• Drug interactions: Important considerations for nurse prescribers
• Stepping away from inertia in diabetes care
• Guide to claiming your full tax relief

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13 Mar 2018

Asthma-COPD overlap: diagnosis and management Public satisfaction with primary care at all time low Vaccinating children: planning to reduce pain Travel health update Fibromyalgia: are the nuances delaying diagnosis? One quarter of population accounts for one half of health service use The impact of Human Papilloma Virus on cervical screening Managing adult malnutrition in the community, 2017

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13 Feb 2018

Curing type 2 diabetes? The DiRECT study and its potential impact on primary care Anti-static spacer device improves asthma control Joint paints in primary care New low dose IUS offers additional contraceptive option Chilhood immunisations: Dealing with the out of the ordinary Travel health update  Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Study aims to help thousands of headache sufferers

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18 Jan 2018

The importance of achieving target HbA1c in the early years No safe levels of smoking – warning  Test results management in general practice: learning from clinical negligence claims Practice Nurse at 30! Aussie flu compounds winter pressures Interstitial Lung Disease Expand nursing workforce at ‘scale and pace’ – Health Committee

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15 Dec 2017

Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management. NICE NG80, 29 November 2017 Management dilemmas in complex diabetes Prescribing for angina Management of acute exacerbations of COPD in primary care NICE asthma guideline: Costs, controversies, commendations and caveats Travel health update

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