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NMC hearings

Midwife’s care failings before infant’s death lead to her suspension.

23 Aug 2016
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Diploma course

One-year Sheffield College access to nursing course aimed at healthcare staff who don't have A-levels

23 Aug 2016
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College hopes political leadership training for nurses on band 8 and above will address recruitment problems
22 Aug 2016
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Pay freeze
Gordon Lees looked back at more than 40 years of activism for the RCN at a talk in London yesterday.
19 Aug 2016
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Applications
Plans to scrap student bursaries risk worsening a recruitment crisis in mental health nursing, a report has warned.
19 Aug 2016
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Night nurse
Disrupted body clock increases risk, research suggests.
17 Aug 2016
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Leadership

Florence Nightingale Foundation leadership scholarships are open to applicants. 

10 Aug 2016
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Jean White
Hospitals in Wales will have to implement safe nurse staffing levels under the law from April 2018, the Welsh Assembly has announced.
03 Aug 2016
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Nurses struck off for faking patient blood sugar readings
Three nurses who faked patients’ blood sugar readings guilty of 'clear eyed and calculated deception.'
03 Aug 2016
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House of Lords

Increasing the number of nurse peers in the House of Lords would give the profession more political cache.

02 Aug 2016
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300,000 assaulted in past five years
25 Jul 2016
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New NICE guideline urges nurses and other healthcare staff to be vigilant of early symptoms

22 Jul 2016

Skin integrity nurses at Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust have been training healthcare assistants to spot pressure ulcers in hospital patients

20 Jul 2016

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens says hospitals could close if EU staff are forced to leave UK

19 Jul 2016

Third of US intensive care nurses have symptoms of severe burnout, warn researchers

11 Jul 2016

Decisions on staffing need to be made locally and not be ruled by ratios, says new guidance

08 Jul 2016

Institute for Employment Studies' report on the labour market for nurses in the UK prompts dire warning.

07 Jul 2016

A study in Qatari hospitals demonstrated that having about 70% of nursing care provided by graduate nurses reduces patient mortality to 1%. 

07 Jul 2016

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