Perioperative fluid management and associated complications in children receiving kidney transplants in the UK.

Background: Intravenous fluid administration is an essential part of perioperative care for children receiving a kidney transplant. There is a paucity of evidence to guide optimal perioperative fluid management. This study aimed to identify the volume of perioperative fluids administered across 5 UK paediatric kidney transplant centres and explore associations between fluid volume administered, graft function, and fluid-related adverse events.

Becoming fall-safe: a framework for reducing inpatient falls.

This article describes a 10-year programme of work that has reduced inpatient falls rate by 46% and how this improvement has been sustained. The methodology applied in this initiative has forced one Trust to challenge expectations about the inevitability of patient falls in hospital. This initiative has resulted in approximately 568 fewer falls each year.

A case study of frontline nurse leadership informed by complex responsive processes of relating.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the social construction of frontline nurse leadership and how power operates at this level.

Background: It is argued that frontline nurse leaders are central to the negotiation of care. Evidence suggests they feel ill-equipped to lead and lack confidence in their ability to do so.

Performing the art of nursing.

Visiting Professor at Kingston University and St George's, University of London, Karen Norman recounts Performing the Art of Nursing, a lively showcase celebrating International Nurses Day 2016.

Building an engaged and certified nursing workforce.

Professional certification has been linked to positive patient, system, and nurse outcomes. However, certification rates among nurses remain low. Using tenets from employee engagement theory, we designed strategies to fully engage nurses within our nursing division to pursue certification.

Karen Norman.

What gets you out of bed in the morning? Usually the noise from the bars across the road from where we live! Gibraltarians know how to party loud - and late!