Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and optimised for iPhone 5. Available from the App Store. For Android, it requires 2.2 and up, and is available from Google Play. Free tinyurl.com/pcppfmu This is a free interactive learning tool developed by Health Education Thames Valley and Health Education Wessex. The content is based on NHS neonatal nursing, pharmaceutical and medical expertise using evidence-based practice. The app is easy to navigate. There are sections on the metric system, the expression of concentrations, drug doses and calculation formulae, intravenous infusions and the prevention of infection. Questions are asked in each section to test learning. With incorrect answers, a verbal explanation is given. Nurse accountability is emphasised throughout, with a focus on the ‘five rights’ of right baby, right drug, right dose, right route and right time. The importance of safety is key. The app is a fun, interesting and a useful pocket learning and revision aid for nurses and midwives. It is not a substitute for formal education. Valerie McGurk is practice development facilitator, paediatrics, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
MIRACLE BABIES
Tuesday November 18, Channel 5, 9-10pm At the neonatal unit of Liverpool Women’s Hospital, we meet baby Oliver who was born 17 weeks early. He is recovering from emergency surgery to remove a diseased section of his bowel and will need another operation to reconnect the two ends of his bowel. The neonatal team must keep him stable and, to ensure that he is putting on weight to give him the best possible chance during surgery, nurses must manually introduce partially digested milk into the lower bowel. MONDAY NOVEMBER 17
Children’s Hospital: The Chaplains BBC 2, 7.30-8pm On the renal ward, a 15-year-old girl faces surgery to remove her transplanted kidney that has stopped working, and it is the only one she has. Meanwhile, the chaplains prepare for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Ebola Frontline BBC 1, 10.35-11.20pm Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone with British-born doctor Javid Abdelmoneim filming work at a treatment centre run by Médecins Sans Frontières. We see the impact of the Ebola virus on families and medical staff. Even in such desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre.
Jamie Baulch: Looking for My Birth Mum BBC 1, 11.20pm-12.20am Olympic silver medal winner Jamie Baulch seeks out his birth mother who gave him up for adoption in 1973. Is his sporting talent down to nature or nurture? TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18
File on 4 BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm Jane Deith asks if demand for continuing nursing care is about to tip health service
CHANNEL 5
Neonatal Medicines Management UK app HHHH
finances over the edge. The government is creating a long-term care fund, but does it have a long-term future?
All in the Mind BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Claudia Hammond talks to Henrietta Bowden-Jones, who runs the only NHS clinic for problem gamblers.
Miracle Babies Channel 5, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20
24 Hours in A&E Channel 4, 9-10pm At St George’s Hospital in London a 70 year old arrives after falling awkwardly while out running. He has dislocated his shoulder. To get his pain under control quickly the team give him ketamine. The side effects keep the staff entertained as they prepare to manipulate his shoulder. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21
Unreported World: 15 and Learning to Speak Channel 4, 7.35-8pm Kiki King visits Uganda to follow the work of the sign language teachers who trek deep into the countryside to transform the lives of deaf children and adults. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
MIRACLE BABIES
Tuesday November 18, Channel 5, 9-10pm At the neonatal unit of Liverpool Women’s Hospital, we meet baby Oliver who was born 17 weeks early. He is recovering from emergency surgery to remove a diseased section of his bowel and will need another operation to reconnect the two ends of his bowel. The neonatal team must keep him stable and, to ensure that he is putting on weight to give him the best possible chance during surgery, nurses must manually introduce partially digested milk into the lower bowel. MONDAY NOVEMBER 17
Children’s Hospital: The Chaplains BBC 2, 7.30-8pm On the renal ward, a 15-year-old girl faces surgery to remove her transplanted kidney that has stopped working, and it is the only one she has. Meanwhile, the chaplains prepare for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Ebola Frontline BBC 1, 10.35-11.20pm Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone with British-born doctor Javid Abdelmoneim filming work at a treatment centre run by Médecins Sans Frontières. We see the impact of the Ebola virus on families and medical staff. Even in such desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre.
Jamie Baulch: Looking for My Birth Mum BBC 1, 11.20pm-12.20am Olympic silver medal winner Jamie Baulch seeks out his birth mother who gave him up for adoption in 1973. Is his sporting talent down to nature or nurture? TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18
File on 4 BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm Jane Deith asks if demand for continuing nursing care is about to tip health service
CHANNEL 5
Neonatal Medicines Management UK app HHHH
finances over the edge. The government is creating a long-term care fund, but does it have a long-term future?
All in the Mind BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Claudia Hammond talks to Henrietta Bowden-Jones, who runs the only NHS clinic for problem gamblers.
Miracle Babies Channel 5, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20
24 Hours in A&E Channel 4, 9-10pm At St George’s Hospital in London a 70 year old arrives after falling awkwardly while out running. He has dislocated his shoulder. To get his pain under control quickly the team give him ketamine. The side effects keep the staff entertained as they prepare to manipulate his shoulder. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21
Unreported World: 15 and Learning to Speak Channel 4, 7.35-8pm Kiki King visits Uganda to follow the work of the sign language teachers who trek deep into the countryside to transform the lives of deaf children and adults. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
NURSING 12other :: voluses 29 without no 11 ::permission. 2014 31 DownloadedSTANDARD from RCNi.com by ${individualUser.displayName} on Nov 22, 2015. For personalnovember use only. No Copyright © 2015 RCNi Ltd. All rights reserved.
