Emergency trauma care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study of nurses' experiences.

Objective: This study aimed to explore nurses' experiences in delivering emergency trauma care during the COVID-19 pandemic at a level I trauma centre in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: A qualitative, descriptive phenomenological design was utilised, in which face-to-face, unstructured interviews were carried out with emergency and trauma nurses at a level I trauma centre in Saudi Arabia. The study included nine registered emergency and trauma nurses who were interviewed twice from February to April 2021.

Accountability issues in an English emergency department: A nursing perspective.

Introduction: Nurses confront doubts about their accountability and how it affects their clinical practice daily in the complex environment of an emergency department. Therefore, nurses' experiences can provide vital information about the decisions and dilemmas in clinical practice that affect both healthcare professionals and patients alike.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of nursing staff in an English emergency department in relation to their ethical, legal and professional accountability.

Postmortem Computed Tomography: An Overview for Forensic Nurses Involved in Death Investigation.

The traditional invasive autopsy has been considered the "gold standard" for death investigation worldwide. However, this has now been challenged by a new minimally invasive approach that utilizes cross-sectional radiological imaging to investigate the death. Globally, postmortem computed tomography is the most commonly used modality and is becoming increasingly available throughout the world.

Philosophy and quality? TAPUPASM as an approach to rigour in critical realist research.

Background: Philosophical principles should guide how research is designed, conducted and appraised. The more traditional and commonly used approaches to positivist (validity and generalisability) or interpretivist (trustworthiness) research do not necessarily complement the philosophical principles of post-positivist critical realism.

Aims: To discuss an approach to ensuring scientific rigour in post-positivist critical realist research using an enhanced version of the quality assurance model, TAPUPAS, that has an additional criterion: modified objectivity.

Ethical, legal and professional accountability in emergency nursing practice: An ethnographic observational study.

Introduction: Accountability in nursing practice is a concept that influences quality care, decision-making, safety standards and staff values. Therefore, understanding accountability and how it affects nursing practice could improve patient care and nurses' working conditions.

Aim: The aim of this study was to find factors that influenced ethical, legal and professional accountability in emergency nursing practice.

Decision-making in an emergency department: A nursing accountability model.

Introduction: Nurses who work in an emergency department regularly care for acute patients in a fast-paced environment, being at risk of suffering high levels of burnout. This situation makes them especially vulnerable to be accountable for decisions they did not have time to consider or have been pressured into.

Research Objective: The objective of this study was to find which factors influence ethical, legal and professional accountability in nursing practice in an emergency department.

Post mortem computed tomography: An innovative tool for teaching anatomy within pre-registration nursing curricula.

Background: There is significant change throughout the world regarding Post Mortem Computed Tomography (PMCT) as an adjunct or a replacement to the traditional invasive autopsy. Of interest, is the ability to demonstrate visually two and three dimensional normal soft tissue, organ and skeletal anatomy, as well as natural disease and trauma pathology.

Objectives: The objective was to compare formal traditional methods of teaching anatomy and pathology (pictures and diagrams) to pre-registration student nurses with supplementary PMCT 2/3D generated images, videos and printed anatomical models.

The development of a clinical policy ethics assessment tool.

Introduction: Clinical policies control several aspects of clinical practice, including individual treatment and care, resource management and healthcare professionals' etiquette. This article presents Clinical Policy Ethics Assessment Tool, an ethical assessment tool for clinical policies that could be used not only by clinical ethics committees but also by policy committees or other relevant groups.

Aim: The aim of this study was to find or create a tool to identify ethical issues and/or confirm ethical validity in nursing practice policies, protocols and guidelines.

Successful partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the healthcare student experience: a partnership evaluation.

There is limited research surrounding academic partnerships and more research is needed to educate universities, and the private, public and third sectors about the benefits and limitations of such partnerships. The aim of this study was to outline the unique partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support and De Montfort University and to evaluate the progress of this partnership. A qualitative approach was employed which involved interviews with nine members of the partnership's steering group.

Perceptions of near virtual autopsies.

Introduction: We present for the first time to our knowledge an insight into pathology/medico-legal practitioners' and general public perceptions' of the use of computed tomography (CT) scanning as an alterative to the invasive autopsy.

Subjects: The study arises from questionnaires at two professional meetings before and after an informative talk on the current use of CT in medico-legal autopsy practice. A total of 45 general public and 27 pathologists/medico-legal practitioners completed both parts of the study.

Did the participants of the mass fatality exercise Operation Torch learn anything?

There are a number of reasons why facilitating and participating in a mass fatality exercise may be viewed as continuous professional development for those ultimately engaged in the response to a mass fatality incident. These include, amongst other objectives; team integration, organization and preparedness, psychological and emotional effects, developing attitudes and behavioral responses as well as testing infrastructure, equipment, command and control. The objectives of attending an exercise from a player or observers point of view however may be completely different to those planning and running an exercise.

Does England need a new genesis of forensic nursing?

This article begins by providing a global picture of violence and the possible effects it is having on the development worldwide of the forensic nurse examiner. A debate follows as to where the boundaries of this advancing nursing practice should lie in conjunction with medicine and postulates where this evolution in nursing may or may not be an advantage to the world of forensics. An analysis is then presented concerning violence in England and whether a need exists for registered nurses to expand and advance their practices, as already developed in other countries, in order to assist in civil, coronial, and crime investigations.

Forensic web watch--forensic nursing.

At times the boundaries between medicine and other allied health care professions becomes blurred such that roles historically undertaken by doctors are today undertaken by others often, in fact, more suited to the role. At the time of conception and implementation this exchange of duties may not be accepted by those trapped within the traditions of the hierarchy of medicine which often leads to conflict between the two groups who initially have to work side by side. A good example of the exchange of duties and the differences of forensic practice throughout the world is that of the role of the nurse in death and forensic investigation.

A 51-year retrospective study of the trends of height, weight and body mass index at the time of death in those aged 16-103.

The study investigates the trends in survival age, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) in both genders for those aged 16-103 at the time of death. It also investigates the trend in the proportion of the population classified as obese using data extracted from 37,206 autopsy reports spanning the period 1947-1997. The data was analysed using the computerised statistical software SPSS with tables and figures produced of mean values per investigation value per sex per 10-year age group per decade.

Her Majesty's coroners and home office forensic pathologists perception of the nurses' role in the coroner's enquiry.

A study was performed to elicit the perceived role of the registered nurse in the coroner's enquiry from Her Majesty's coroners and Home Office forensic pathologists viewpoint. A qualitative small sample study of unstructured interviews was performed followed by a quantitative and qualitative survey of all 134 coroners and 44 forensic pathologists practising in England and Wales. 72 (53.