Healing hearts
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The Pilgrim's solution is a mobile team of cardiac assessment nurses who can be called by bleep to see any patient admitted anywhere in the hospital with chest pain. The nurses there also provide vital training and support for other frontline professionals, including night staff, A&E nurses and doctors, paramedics in the local ambulance trust, and staff from an outlying hospital.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2005
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Developing roles in critical care outreach
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The specialty of critical care outreach nurses has emerged who teach and support staff and notice the early signs of deteriorating health and provide appropriate intervention. The outreach nurses assess the patient and advise the nurses, junior medical staff and some of the senior doctors on the care that is needed.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2005
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The critical care dream team: Sheila Adam and her team run a pioneering critical care service that covers an entire hospital
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British nursing consultant Sheila Adam has developed a team of critical care nurses that is on call to attend patients wherever they are needed in Middlesex Hospital in London, England. Her team's successes are highlighted.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2003
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