Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
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Nursing Now and the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, offer new opportunities
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How quality improvement programmes can be implemented successfully in your clinical area
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The value of a workplace culture that supports women experiencing menopausal symptoms
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Antrim Area HEWS has advanced the Northern Irish trust’s management of site-level pressure
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Public perceptions of the acceptability of nurses’ online behaviours and e-professionalism
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A study explored the use of instant messaging in continuing education for nurses and midwives
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Advanced clinical practice roles help fill gaps in care provision and improve consistency
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Implementation and lessons learned from a US project carried out over eight years
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Internationally educated nurses (IENs) require robust teaching programmes to support them through the objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) process to gain registration with
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NHS regulators, such as NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission, promote staff involvement in quality improvement (QI), while national nursing leaders and the Nursing an
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A qualitative insight from newly qualified nurses
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Using technology to engage with patients can be as valuable as face-to-face interaction
Digital healthcare provision in England has been driven mainly by a ‘top-down’ approach and a focus on digital infrastructure rather than front-line delivery. This has laid the foundation, but digital care delivery still has a long way to go.
The Care Certificate, launched in England in 2015, safeguards patients by ensuring all new healthcare assistants (HCAs) undertake a structured educational programme so that they can provide appropriate, safe and high standards of care in clinical settings.
The number of older people with multiple co-morbidities and cognitive impairment being admitted to hospital is increasing, and behavioural disturbances, such as confusion, agitation and delirium, are becoming commonplace.
Aim Nurses’ emotional intelligence (EI) affects many of their behavioural skills. Given the importance of communication skills, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between EI and the communication skills of emergency department nurses.
The NHS in England is working to reduce variation and waste in the use of clinical products, which requires collaboration between those directly involved in procurement and clinical staff.
Intentional rounding was introduced in the UK in 2012 to improve direct nursing care. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (LWFT) introduced intentional nursing rounds, called comfort rounds, in 2013.
