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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
What can be done to prevent adverse childhood experiences?

The childhoods of an increasing number of children and young people are marred by poverty,

24 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
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
Why services for children and families are crying out for more investment

The Joseph Roundtree Foundation reports that 4.3 million children in the UK live in povert

17 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
Partnership and collaboration is key to meeting demand for children’s hospice care

Children’s hospices have evolved to meet the changing needs of children, but need among ch

18 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
Our rich history shows us why children need specialist care

Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS in England exposes the state of healthcare for children and

20 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

Sometimes a child’s reliance on medical technology can have a negative effect on families,

14 Aug 2024

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

13 Aug 2024

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

02 Jul 2024

Children’s nurse Dame Elizabeth Fradd, who died on 12 May, was a champion for children, you

26 Jun 2024

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

14 May 2024

Children’s nurses should advise parents and pregnant women to book an appointment to get va

15 Apr 2024

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