My name is Harriet Battersby, and I am a third-year adult nursing student at the University of Salford. As part of our coursework, we were tasked with implementing a change in practice through a poster presentation. For my project, I created a leaflet for patients being discharged, highlighting the negative impact of smoking on the […]

Compression therapy (CT) is well established as the evidence-based, best practice for the treatment of patients with venous leg ulceration (VLU).  CT is widely used by community nursing teams and embedded into practice, however if a patient is admitted to hospital with CT in place, this is not always maintained, leading to CT being stopped […]