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Leadership mentoring

A mentoring scheme, which reverses the roles of mentor and mentee, could help increase the number of senior BME nurses.

06 Feb 2017
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Extra Fitness to Practise (FtP) hearings are being held over the next three months to clear the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) outstanding caseload, but will co

06 Feb 2017
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A national audit found 43% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients are readmitted to hospital at least once within 90 days of discharg

06 Feb 2017
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RCN analysis figures show nurses with RCN representation are more likely to have no sanction brought against them at Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise

03 Feb 2017
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Bad lifestyle choice

Figures released by Cancer Research UK have highlighted potentially bad lifestyle factors causing rising cancer rates in women.

03 Feb 2017
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Nurses and academics in the UK and Jamaica could soon be changing places under the terms of an innovative faculty exchange and rotation programme.

03 Feb 2017
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Queen's nurses

Patron’s Fund grant will be used to host a day of celebration for working and retired Queen’s nurses at Frogmore in Windsor

03 Feb 2017
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Nearly 2,000 nurses have expressed interest in being early adopters of the RCN’s new ‘credentialing’ process for advanced practice, which will launch in April

03 Feb 2017
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Research project will evaluate whether holding a specialist qualification boosts district nurses’ assertiveness.

02 Feb 2017
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Gender stereotypes

Primary school children are more likely to identify a woman as a nurse and a man as a surgeon, according to new research.

02 Feb 2017
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Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are leading a campaign to get patients out of bed and dressed during the day in a bid get them more active.

02 Feb 2017
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A staff nurse who had her arm amputed due to a genetic condition is back at work after having a bionic hand fitted by surgeons at her hospital trust.

02 Feb 2017
Humber NHS Foundation Trust is consulting on changes to its public health nursing service which includes a reduction in the number of band 6 health visitors
02 Feb 2017

Staff at a nursing workwear company are planning bike rides, fun runs and bake sales to raise £10,000 for nurses in hardship. 

02 Feb 2017
The number of nursing degree applicants in England has fallen by 23%
02 Feb 2017

Academics are to explore whether 'culturally aware' robots could help care for older people in future.

01 Feb 2017

A campaign which calls for people with dementia to be supported by their carers in hospital has now been expanded to care homes.

01 Feb 2017

RCN Northern Ireland director Janice Smyth has said nurses are ‘under extreme stress’ in response to the latest emergency waiting time figures.

01 Feb 2017

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