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nurse associate

Nursing associates will only be able to administer medicines if suitably trained and competent, in settings where it is deemed appropriate, and will be guided by employer medici

18 Nov 2016
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Medicine monitoring side effects
Nurse-led monitoring of medicines taken by people with mental health problems can prevent serious adverse side effects, reveals new research.
17 Nov 2016
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Amanda Burston
Introducing specialist domestic abuse advisors in hospitals would help nurses to better support victims, a charity says.
17 Nov 2016
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Brian Webster
The Council of Deans of Health, which represents nursing, midwifery and allied health students, has elected a new chair.
17 Nov 2016
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Sian Thomas won the prestigious RCN Wales nurse of the year award for ensuring a child with complex needs could be educated in a mainstream school.
17 Nov 2016
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mental health crisis
Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said the government and the Welsh Assembly should ban the use of police cells as places of safety for people in mental health crisis.
16 Nov 2016
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Charity calls for domestic abuse support in every hospital.
Over half of domestic abuse victims visiting hospital had accessed emergency departments a year before getting effective help, research shows.
16 Nov 2016
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Nurses
Reasearch shows one professional nurse substitution associated with a 21% rise in patient death risk.
15 Nov 2016
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Bright 2016
Charity encourages mental health nurses working on acute wards to organise themselves using sport as an example.
15 Nov 2016
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Child and adolescent mental health

Dozens of children with mental health problems are being treated on adult psychiatric wards despite the practice being banned, it has been reported.

14 Nov 2016
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buying essays
A Nursing Standard investigation reveals thousands of UK nursing students have been involved in cases of academic misconduct such as: plagiarism, forging signatures and cheating in
11 Nov 2016
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Attrition_rates

The government wants drop-out rates halved by next year.

10 Nov 2016
RCN lays crosses at the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.
10 Nov 2016
Researchers have found a high proportion of people with suicidal thoughts search for information online.
10 Nov 2016
Nurses who took part in the Widening Access Training (WAT) scheme could be eligible for a sizeable tax rebate
04 Nov 2016
The RCN has criticised figures which reveal a 15% drop in the number of mental health nurses in England over the last six years.
03 Nov 2016

Practice nurses need better training in mental health, says mental health charity Mind.

01 Nov 2016
The number of nurses and midwives being referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council has risen for the third year running, according to the regulator’s annual review.
01 Nov 2016

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