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Joan Myers

Opportunity for senior professional to influence chief nursing officer’s work on race equality and inclusion in England.

 

04 Jan 2017
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The number of NHS staff applying for retirement
The number of NHS staff applying for retirement has surged by 25% over the past four years, Nursing Standard can reveal.
04 Jan 2017
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Elizabeth Anionwu

Leading Mary Seacole statue campaigner and the UK’s only nursing professor of stroke care both made a dame in the new year’s honours.

30 Dec 2016
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RCN president Cecilia Anim
RCN president Cecilia Anim is urging nurses to make their voices heard through petitions, branch activism and meetings in their workplaces.
30 Dec 2016
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Nurses have paid tribute to George Michael for championing the profession – and recalled how he once put on a concert especially for them.

28 Dec 2016
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Nursing leaders from across the UK have paid tribute to the ‘hard-working and dedicated’ nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants who will be on duty over 

22 Dec 2016
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Mandy Cooper
  • Almost 90,000 nurses will be on Christmas Day duty this year, according to health union estimates.
21 Dec 2016
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Nurses have been voted the most trustworthy professionals for the fifteenth year in a row in a US poll.
21 Dec 2016
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Falls prevention

A study has found a ‘calculable’ link between nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes.

20 Dec 2016
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Waste project
A pioneering nurse whose recycling project saved £50,000 is urging others to put their ideas forward for a new mentorship scheme aimed at improving nursing practice.
20 Dec 2016
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Bursary or Bust demonstration

Nursing leaders voice concern about reduction since the government withdrew funding for student bursaries.

20 Dec 2016
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The NHS in England is ‘buckling’, a think tank has warned, with levels of funding failing to meet soaring demand. 

20 Dec 2016
A nurses' choir were in for a surprise when they landed a starring role in a festive TV special due to be broadcast to millions on Christmas Eve.
19 Dec 2016

NHS staff are being offered the chance to relax in woodland as part of workshops to ease work pressures.

16 Dec 2016

Pressures on hospital beds is so severe that the equivalent of seven extra hospitals had to be opened on the busiest day last winter, according to a new analysis by the Nuffield Trust.

16 Dec 2016
A new tool has been developed to help nurses on emergency wards identify quicker the signs of acute limb compartment syndrome (ALCS).
14 Dec 2016
Patient safety could be at risk if nursing students cheat by passing off as their own work essays bought online, a higher education watchdog has warned.
14 Dec 2016
Updated guidance on infusion therapy has been published by the RCN.
12 Dec 2016

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