Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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The early warning score system is a decision-making tool that has a simple design, yet its implementation in healthcare organisations is proving complex.
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID) represent a small but important group of patients who have high levels of hospitalisation,
In January 2016, all registered nurses and midwives will be required to revalidate their practice every three years.
A master of science degree course in advanced practice (health and social care) was launched at the University of Salford in 2005 to prepare students for ad
There is a lack of empirical knowledge about nurses’ perceptions of their workplace characteristics and conditions, such as level of autonomy and decision a
There is a need to reduce medication errors, and one way of achieving this for high-risk medications is by double-checking.
One of the goals of nursing education is to develop caring and responsible nurses with clinical reasoning skills who are capable of improving outcomes in co
In hospitals in the United States, the ratio of nurses to patients is declining, resulting in an increase in workloads for the remaining nurses.
In the current financial climate it is important for nurse leaders to be able to develop and present a business case for initiatives.
The London Cancer Alliance (LCA) has developed the Quality Clinical Board Exception Report (QCBER), a tool that supports delivery of quality assurance acros
Nursing students are our future leaders in the healthcare sector.
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Online learning for nurses is growing in popularity, with programmes ranging from mandatory update training to part-time master’s degrees.
In 2010, the chief nursing officer and nurse director for Wales commissioned a study to identify attitudes and behaviours associated with professionalism for nurses and midwives in Wales.
A peri-operative bay was created to treat all patients with proximal femoral fractures admitted to one trauma ward at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Flexible work schedules give nurses the freedom and control to manage the demands of work and home, allow organisations to meet their staffing needs and can improve job satisfaction.
The Department of Health has tasked Health Education England with introducing values-based recruitment (VBR) for all applicants to NHS-funded healthcare programmes.
Knowledge translation is the means by which evidence-based practice is used in health care.
Service review and redesign across the UK are moving towards an integrated health, social and third sector care system, and at the heart of the integration agenda is improving patient care through multistakeholder engagement and collaboration.
