Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Nurses discussed profession’s diverse roles with Prince Charles
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Despite some progress, the initial treatment for many patients diagnosed with sepsis is still too slow.
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A rise of 6.5% over three years is not a panacea, but the offer is free of unpalatable demands, so RCN members will be encouraged to accept, says the college’s lead pay
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Health advice is given with good intentions, but telling older people to walk like penguins during the big freeze was never going to go down well, says Jane B
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Many nurses who can prescribe do so infrequently, or not at all.
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Anyone naive enough to think nurses might get a meaningful pay rise will have been brought down to earth by the proposed link to ‘productivity’, which in a nu
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The Nursing Now campaign aims to raise the profile of nursing globally and ensure nurses are in leadership positions where they can promote improvements
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Guidance has belatedly been published on safe nurse staffing levels in five new healthcare settings, but the sanitised documents are silent on the real requir
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Many young people just miss out on the qualifications needed to undertake a nursing degree course.
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The response to the nursing crisis has been to step up training or recruit nurses from abroad.
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A past encounter in which Jane Bates was accused of being a 'do-gooder' left her thinking twice when providing aid
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NHS Improvement’s nurse fellow for digital health says collaboration is needed to introduce new IT systems and technology
Making the ward environment safer for patients should be a primary aim for nurses and clinical teams. Adopting improvement methodologies can make a real difference, says NHS Improvement's Zoe Packman
Public Health England’s deputy chief nurse reflects on how prevention, promotion and protection have become key commitments in Leading Change, Adding Value, the framework for nursing, midwifery and care staff
Nurses need to better convey the critical nature of the profession and its impact, and can make a start by adding RN after their name
The number of nurses leaving the register is a worrying trend for our health and care workforce. We must make plans to improve retention, says Janet Finch
With so many people willing to give up their time and share their skills, health services could do more to use volunteers to support staff and benefit patients
Workforce strategies must adopt new approaches and consider how nurses can become enablers of solutions rather than simply deliverers of services, says Heather Henry
