British Journal of Nursing

The British Journal of Nursing (BJN) brings you closer to the forefront of nursing practice. If you are looking for a journal that contains the latest clinical developments, original research and evidence-based practice you should be reading BJN.

Subscribe to BJN for fortnightly issues featuring: • Cutting edge, peer-reviewed clinical research • Articles covering education and professional issues to keep nurse educators and general, specialist and student nurses up to date with care on the coalface • Innovations in nursing to keep you abreast on current professional developments and informed about how you can impact your own practice • In-depth patient safety, healthcare and legal analysis to help you guide clinical decision making and inspire the best in evidence-based practice and outcomes for your patients • 17 supplements focusing on tissue viability, oncology, stoma care, IV therapy and urology • Top-quality original research and comment in specialist nursing areas • Jobs, courses and events in nursing to support your continuing professional development

Articles in BJN are written by nurses and subject to peer review by leading authorities in the profession. It is highly regarded by practitioners in the field, and has been called "the most up-to-date clinically focused journal available" and an "essential companion to my studies" by our readers. Ensure that you have access to the best clinical papers and original research in BJN.

Continence is the focus of this issue of BJN, with an evaluation of a new clean intermittent self-catheterisation device. The clinical section features a review of the fundamentals of diabetes care. There is also an article on providing trauma-informed care for patients nurses may meet in the acute setting. A case study discusses the problem of elder abuse, and another article looks at how lifestyle nursing has become a leadership opportunity. This issue also includes the Stoma Care Supplement, in association with the Association of Stoma Care Nurses UK. There is an article examining the steps being taken towards developing a national strategy in stoma care. Overcoming the psychological effects of having a stoma is explored in another article. There is a discussion on providing postoperative education for elective stoma patients and there is also a review of how colostomy irrigation can improve quality of life for some patients.