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Guidelines

All these guidelines have been provided by members who generously wish to share with others. Please feel free to download these and use as you see fit, but in return, please share your own work. These documents are the property of their originators, so in any work you use them for, please be polite and acknowledge the original authors! Except where indicated, these documents have not been critiqued or ratified in any way by BAHNON. BAHNON, the authors, and the originating Trusts accept no responsibility for the use or misuse of these documents.

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Alcohol dependency

Alcohol Dependency Management Guidelines (Leeds) 105Kb

Breaking Bad News

	Breaking Bad News Guidelines (Bradford) 35Kb
	Breaking Bad News Best Practice (Bassetlaw &Doncaster) 51Kb

Care pathways

	North West Head and Neck Cancer Nursing and PAMs pathway is available at this site
	Carepathway guidelines (Leeds Performance Improvement Team): Section 1 85Kb Section 2 117Kb Section 3 48Kb Section 4 76Kb Section 5 544Kb Section 6 447Kb Section 7 115Kb Section 8 161Kb Section 9 139Kb

Carotid Haemorrhage

	Carotid Haemorrhage Guidelines (BAHNON national guidelines) 60Kb
	Carotid artery rupture policy. Poole NHS Trust

Craniofacial

Presentation on craniofacial care Lynda Farmer UCHL

Dying - care of

	Caring for the dying patient (Doncaster) (31Kb)
	Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Policy (Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) 50Kb

Enteral feeding (also see gastrostomy)

Insertion and management of finebore feeding tubes - workbook. (Leeds Teaching Hospitals) 70Kb

Flap Care

Flap Guidelines (Southwest group) 63Kb

Gastrostomy care

	Gastrostomy Management Best Practice (Leeds) 60Kb
	Guidelines for referral for gastrostomy (Leeds) 34.5Kb
	PEG carepathway (Aintree Hospitals) 107Kb

Laryngectomy care

	Nursing protocol for total laryngectomy (Bassetlaw &Doncaster) 38Kb
	Laryngectomy support strategy (Leeds) 95Kb
	Laryngectomy care pathway and policy for surgical voice restoration (Wycombe Primary Healthcare Trust) 110Kb Note: this is a good piece of work and contains patient info for valve care
	Laryngectomy Resource File for Nurses. (Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals) 430Kb
	Carepathway for laryngectomy (Aintree Hospitals) 664Kb
	TEV guidelines & competencies (Royal Devon & Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust) 60.5Kb
	Valve changes - PGD for use of local anaesthetic (Royal Devon & Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust) 41Kb
	Presentation on laryngectomy Linda Farmer UCHL
	Information for non specialist wards on caring for lary. Frimley Park
	Valve care policy. Frimley Park

Laryngoscopy guidelines - nurse-led clinic

	Nurse Specialist Laryngoscopy clinic guidelines (Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust) 85Kb
	Nurse Specialist Laryngoscopy clinic proforma (Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust) 45Kb
	PGD for use of local anaesthetic (Royal Devon & Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust) 41Kb

Lone worker policy

Lone practitioner policy (Oxford) 28.7 Kb

Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Manual Lymphatic Drainage of the face (Leeds) 23Kb

Maxillofacial care

Maxillofacial support strategy (Leeds) 90Kb

Mouth care

	Guidelines for oral care (Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) 80Kb
	Mouthcare literature review (Leeds) 109Kb
	Oral care protocol (Leeds) 30Kb

Nurse led clinics

	Protocol for nurse led head and neck cancer clinic (Southend Hospital) 27Kb
	PGD for use of local anaesthetic (Royal Devon & Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust) 41Kb

Quality of Life Assessment

Adapted University of Washington QoL questionnaire (Leeds) 37.5Kb

Radiotherapy

Guidelines for radiotherapy skin care (Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) 72Kb

Role of Clinical Nurse Specialist

	Referral & discharge criteria (Yorks, Humberside & North Trent Network Group) 22Kb
	Referral flowchart (Leeds) 27Kb

Tracheostomy care

	Scotland Caring for the patient with a tracheostomy best practice guidelines
	Tracheostomy guidelines Royal Alexandra Hospital (Argyll & Clyde) 48Kb
	Tracheostomy & Laryngectomy information for community nurses (Leeds) 191Kb Updated - now with diagrams scanned in! (It is useful to add product brochures e.g. Kapitex, Platon, Forth Medical)
	Evidence based guidelines for caring for a patient with a tracheostomy Poole NHS Trust) 100Kb
	Discharge Equipment for tracheostomy patients (Bassetlaw &Doncaster) 20Kb
	Suctionning Guidelines Dumfries & Galloway 59Kb
	Tracheostomy Guidelines Dumfries & Galloway 425Kb
	Tracheostomy Guidelines (Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) 213Kb
	Tracheal Suctionning (Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) 57Kb
	Tracheostomy Guidelines (Bradford) 40Kb
	Tracheostomy Guidelines (Oxford) 195Kb
	Tracheostomy guidelines (Poole NHS Trust)
	St George's Guidelines for the care of patients with tracheostomy tubes. An excellent, very comprehensive document. This is only available as a hard copy. For a free copy ring Portex customer services on 01303 260551. A video is also available to buy.

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Professional Guidelines

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Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to BAHNON.
Copyright © 2001 BAHNON. All rights reserved.
Last modified: Monday January 21, 2008.

Professional Guidelines

Contents

Back to Top

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to BAHNON. Copyright © 2001 BAHNON. All rights reserved. Last modified: Monday January 21, 2008.

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to BAHNON.
Copyright © 2001 BAHNON. All rights reserved.
Last modified: Monday January 21, 2008.