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Bank shift pay cuts: what does this say about nurses’ value?

Many nurses work bank shifts as a way to boost their income and also to provide staffing c

29 Apr 2025
Does AI have the potential to be used in mental health nursing?

AI will be in the forthcoming 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS and we are already seeing th

22 Apr 2025
Nurse’s alarming dishonesty: why the NMC is right to come down so hard

The public trusts nurses more than any other professional group.

11 Mar 2025

There are concerns about mental health nurse education not being specific enough to the sp

24 Feb 2025
Performing CPR is daunting, which is why debriefs and training should go hand-in-hand

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to keep nurses’ skills and knowledge up to date is

18 Feb 2025
NHS misconduct: it’s time the rules for staff and managers aligned

A proposal to establish a regulatory body for NHS managers is in consultation and could se

21 Jan 2025

Cris Allen, the quiet and unassuming former RCN professional lead for mental health nursin

16 Dec 2024
‘Smart scrubs’: will your new work wardrobe help you do your job in comfort?

Nurses in England’s NHS are to start wearing a national uniform, in a gradual adoption of

03 Dec 2024
Practice makes perfect: would reducing clinical placement hours be a mistake?

Hundreds of nurse graduates have been told by the Nursing and Midwifery Council that they

19 Nov 2024
Why you have a key role in monitoring antidepressant use

For mental health nurses, reconciling safety, effectiveness, tolerability and patient choi

17 Oct 2024
New nurses working in Starbucks: is this still a career for life?

Newly registered nurses unable to get jobs in the NHS are having to seek employment elsewh

14 Oct 2024
‘Nurse’ title for unregistered roles is a dangerous deception and holds us in contempt

Misleading job titles in nursing imply our work is so minor that being a nurse amounts to

16 Sep 2024

Nurse retention, burnout and low morale are challenges with a deliciously simple solution –

13 Aug 2024

The digitalisation of mental healthcare remains a strategic priority and can bring nursing

12 Aug 2024

It’s heartening to hear how some hospital nurses have all-but eliminated falls on their war

23 Jul 2024

Nurse’s six-month suspension for taking paracetamol tablets from a ward supply is hard to s

02 Jul 2024

Pre-registration nursing programmes are among the most challenging, so we need to ensure st

30 Jun 2024

It’s not hard to imagine the terrible pressures in the emergency department where care fail

14 May 2024

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