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Volume 4, Number 2 |
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| Atopic eczema and Bangladeshi families in east London |
E Jean Robinson RGN RSCN Clinical Nurse Specialist in Paediatric Dermatology, Barts and The Royal London NHS Trust, Sister, Paediatric Home Care Team, Tower Hamlets Healthcare Trust, London |
The diversity of east London’s population is almost unparalleled1 and this is reflected in the children attending paediatric dermatology clinics and receiving input from the local generic children’s community nursing team. |
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| Phototherapy dosimetry: why bother? |
Andrew Coleman PhD Consultant Medical Physicist & UV Laboratory Manager, St Thomas’ Hospital, London |
A patient receiving phototherapy (PUVA, broadband UVB or narrowband (TL01) UVB) will rightly assume that steps have been taken by the phototherapy centre to ensure that the UVR dose they receive is not so high as to cause burning or so low as to render the treatment ineffective. |
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| How to … take skin scrapings and nail clippings |
Hilary Sexton RGN ENB998 ENB928 Dermatology Sister at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn |
Skin scrapings and nail clippings are used to diagnose fungal infections of the outer layer of skin (stratum corneum) or nails. Skin scrapings can be taken from the foot, hand, scalp or isolated patches. Hilary Sexton RGN ENB998 ENB928 Dermatology Sister at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn explains how to take skin scrapings and nail clippings |
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| Exploration of touch |
Louise Butler RGN DipN BSc(Hons) Clinical Nurse Specialist in Dermatology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield |
Touch is an integral part of human behaviour, conveying meaning from the moment of our birth until the day we die. This article will explore the central role of touch to care-giving in dermatology within the nurse–patient relationship. |
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