What influences the inclusion of skin tone diversity when teaching skin assessment? Findings from a survey.

Background: Understanding the variances in visual skin changes across all skin tones is important in clinical care. However, the experiences of those teaching skin assessment to pre- and post-registrant nurses are unknown.

Aims: To determine the barriers and facilitators experienced in teaching skin assessment across a range of skin tones to pre- and post-registrant nurses.

Defining palliative wound care: A scoping review by European Association for Palliative Care wound care taskforce.

Background: Deciding whether to transition to wound palliation is challenging for health care professionals because there is no agreed definition or understanding of palliative wound care, including the goals, core elements and differences from general wound management.

Objectives: To conduct a scoping review with qualitative synthesis to define palliative wound care in terms of its conceptual framework, goals, principles, components, and differences from general wound management, and provide a new definition of palliative wound care based on this scoping review.

Eligibility Criteria: Published literature that refers to the definitions, concept, goals and core elements of palliative wound care using any methodological approach, without any time limits, published in English.

Marginalised voices in wound care: Experiences of people who inject drugs living with leg ulceration "The Gutter, the Nick or a Box!!".

Portraying the authentic voice of people who inject drugs (PWID) through narrative means is novel in contemporary literature. The study explored the experiences of PWID living with chronic leg ulceration using qualitative methodology set in a naturalistic paradigm. Led from the perspective of a nurse-researcher in the field of wound management, the study is original from a purist narrative perspective and offers a unique opportunity to gain a rare glimpse into the daily life of PWID as reported in their own words.

Managing leg ulceration in intravenous drug users.

Chronic venous leg ulceration is a long-term condition commonly associated with lower-limb injecting and chronic venous hypertension caused by collapsed veins, incompetent valves, deep vein thrombosis and reflux. It is not usually a medical emergency, but intravenous (IV) drug users with leg ulcers can attend emergency departments (EDs) with a different primary complaint such as pain or because they cannot access local primary care or voluntary services. Leg ulceration might then be identified during history taking, so it is important that ED nurses know how to assess and manage these wounds.

Smoking behaviour and interaction: the observation process in research.

To those starting off on the research journey, the term 'qualitative research' can often seem a daunting prospect. The world of research methodology and theory is emerged in a rich history of its own terminology, meanings and experiences. Research and innovation are integral parts of the nurse practitioner's role, yet many have little understanding of the theoretical frameworks and methodologies surrounding the vast areas of qualitative and quantitative research.

Drug policy, intravenous drug use, and heroin addiction in the UK.

In order to fully understand and appreciate today's drug problem in the UK, the foundations of drug legislation and the history of drug evolution require exploration. This paper critically examines the history of drug policy and the growth of heroin addiction from the perspective of a novice researcher who works closely with intravenous drug users in relation to leg ulceration and wound care in the acute setting. Today's drug policy has come a long way in understanding the problems of heroin addiction and establishing services to meet intravenous drug users' needs and the needs of society.

Introducing a new skin-care regimen for the incontinent patient.

Maintaining skin integrity and preventing skin breakdown and moisture lesions in the incontinent patient is an everyday challenge for nurses in the acute setting. The management of incontinence is often a socially or culturally prohibited topic Fletcher (2008); it is frequently attributed to ill health, the aging process or hospitalization, and often overlooked. The concept of cleansing should be commonplace, but it is complicated by the ritualism that underpins this ordinary yet fundamental aspect of patient care (Voegeli, 2010).