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5 simple ways to be a greener nurse – small climate-conscious changes you can make

How to help save energy and reduce carbon emissions by making small changes, which wi

04 Oct 2023
Misplaced perceptions of stammering – and how to improve communication

People with a stammer often encounter pity or impatience, including from healthcare profes

28 Sep 2023
Mental health sick leave: why NHS employers need to be more explicit about supporting us

Nurses’ mental ill health and burnout are pushing up sickness absence, yet many staff stru

12 Sep 2023
Empathy and diversity: why warmth and connection are key to reducing inequalities

Healthcare experience for patients of minority ethnic heritage can be tainted by bias, wit

07 Sep 2023
We must do better for children receiving mental healthcare

Without specialist input from children’s nurses, mental health services are failing to pro

07 Sep 2023
Letby case: families like ours are haunted by ‘what might have been’

Nurse whose grandson was on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit where nurse Lucy Letby w

31 Aug 2023
Parity of esteem still a distant goal – and what mental health nurses can do about it

Mental health nurses need to be advocates for the right to equal treatment, which may mean

22 Aug 2023
Infection prevention: why use of plastic gloves should not be our go-to solution

Effective hand hygiene in nursing protects patients, staff and the planet – which is why w

03 Aug 2023
Convenient and affordable accommodation for NHS nurses is a welcome blast from my past

If NHS can return to arranging convenient and relatively cheap accommodation for nursing s

20 Jul 2023
Why any move to cut clinical placement hours would be bad for students and patients

Reducing the clinical practice hours required over the course of the nursing degree would

19 Jul 2023
Student loans: will repayment changes deter future nurses?

Upcoming changes to when repayments begin and end, on top of rising living expenses, will

22 Jun 2023
My simple tip for nurses based on time as an inpatient on two very different wards

Don’t underestimate the power of social interactions on a mental health ward – talking wit

21 Jun 2023

An alarming report has again raised concerns about sexual safety on mental health wards and

19 Jun 2023

Skills passport would allow nurses to move between employers and settings without having to

09 Jun 2023

Negative energy during these team sessions can be demoralising for all staff members, but p

30 May 2023

A mental health nurse and lecturer suggests ways to approach people’s distress related to h

24 May 2023

Communicating empathy doesn’t always come easily given pressures in healthcare, but every t

17 May 2023

Two mental health nurses on how formulaic progress notes undermine advances made by the spe

10 May 2023

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