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Considering defence nursing? Here’s what you need to know

Team-work and leadership are key skills in military nursing.

23 Mar 2023
How mentoring can help overseas nurses reach senior roles

Few of the UK’s 40,000-plus Filipino nurses are on band 8 or above – a mentorship programm

09 Mar 2023
How secondment could transform your career or offer a new direction

Secondment can offer new direction in your career and a chance to learn and test your skil

01 Mar 2023
QNI field-specific standards – what are they and how will they be used?

The draft standards cover specialist community nursing practitioner qualifications in six

01 Mar 2023
Returning to work: how to rebuild your confidence after an absence

Nurses returning to practice after stress-related leave or absence due to illness may find

15 Feb 2023
Finding your voice as a newly registered nurse: tips and advice

Tips and advice on how to step up to your new professional role, and use your voice to adv

02 Feb 2023
Gambling addiction and recovery: what it’s like working in a pioneering NHS clinic

A network of UK clinics is being established to tackle the growth in problem gambling – wi

25 Jan 2023
Redeployed to an unfamiliar area: what is a floating shift and do I have to work it?

With nurse staffing pressures making redeployment more common, find out how to cope if you

18 Jan 2023
Expedition nursing: an opportunity for thrill seekers to work while travelling

If you would love to combine work, travel and adventure – and you can take the responsibil

11 Jan 2023
Virtual wards: what are they and what do they mean for different nursing roles?

Nursing roles are being reinvented as virtual ward and hospital at home services evolve, s

01 Dec 2022
Are you a super-helper? How to ditch the guilt and avoid burnout

Super-helpers never say no to helping someone out – even though it might be to their detri

16 Nov 2022
What does an occupational health nurse do and could it be the role for me?

Role requires empathy and excellent listening and communication skills – and in return can

10 Nov 2022

It can help maintain a healthy, supported nursing workforce, yet access to good quality cli

04 Nov 2022

Tips on being an effective leader from charity chief executive Joanne Bosanquet, who built

19 Oct 2022

Advice on avoiding medication errors, nurses’ duty of candour when a mistake is made and ha

13 Oct 2022

Talking about loneliness can still be seen as a taboo in healthcare settings, with those in

29 Sep 2022

NHS England Midlands’ aspiring nurse and midwife leaders programme aims to improve represen

15 Sep 2022

An RCN Nurse of the Year describes how work pressures combined with a traumatic event led t

08 Sep 2022

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