Comment

Image
race

​Demonstrable leadership, an effective communications strategy and celebrating your successes are essential to embedding inclusion and equality in NHS organisa

28 Jun 2017
Image
smear

With cervical screening uptake at a 19-year low in England, encouraging women to have a smear test could bring the day closer when no more lives are lost to c

26 Jun 2017
Image
endangered

Brexit and the 1% pay cap are putting the future of nurses and the NHS at risk. The situation is critical and the time to act is now, says Jane Bates.

26 Jun 2017
Image
social

Nurses are cautious users of social media, aware of the risk of crossing boundaries or breaching patient confidentiality.

22 Jun 2017
Image
time

Time-induced panic is nothing new for nurses, but with many now facing increasingly unreasonable workloads it’s time for change, says Jane Bates.

21 Jun 2017
Image
dementia

A scheme that helps track down people with dementia who go missing from care homes is being extended to those living in the community, says Admiral Nurse Zena

20 Jun 2017
Image
cpr

The NMC should act to ally nurses fears that they can be reprimanded for not attempting to resuscitate a patient who is clearly dead, says legal expert Marc C

19 Jun 2017
Image
smoke

The ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces has been a huge public health success.

15 Jun 2017
Image
protest

As the RCN gears up for a summer of protest, college chief executive Janet Davies has a strong message for the new government: scrap the 1% pay cap for 2018 o

15 Jun 2017
Image
boil

We may live in times of political uncertainty but thanks to improvements in hygiene, at least we don’t have to suffer the indignity of painful boils, says Jan

13 Jun 2017
Image
prepared

Good preparation, as well as heroism and commitment, was responsible for the impressive response of nurses who cared for those injured in the attacks in Londo

13 Jun 2017
Image
tedros

Just days after being elected, the new director-general of the World Health Organization told nurses at ICN Congress they are the linchpin to addres

12 Jun 2017

From the Bright Line path to the Paleo regime, modern eating plans can be tricky to accommodate if you're the chef.

09 Jun 2017

Countries across the world are striving to increase the number of graduate nurses, so England’s decision to introduce the nursing associate role caused bewilderment among many at the ICN meeting in Barcelona.

07 Jun 2017

Through the recent dark days of horror and violence, the kindness of ordinary folk shines through, says Jane Bates.

05 Jun 2017

The responsibilities of leadership in today's NHS are vast, but in the right organisation the top job can still be immensely rewarding.

05 Jun 2017

If nurses can't support their trade union over strike action they should resign en masse, like nurses in California in the 1990s.

30 May 2017

Delays in diagnosing endometriosis are causing misery and pain for many women and costing the NHS a fortune in unnecessary investigations. 

30 May 2017

Jobs