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10 simple ways to boost your energy levels at work and wind down afterwards

Keeping energy levels up is essential for safe practice and your well-being, but it’s not

07 Jul 2023
Unforgettable inspirations: the role models and mentors who made us who we are

As the NHS marks its 75th anniversary, nurses recall the encouragers and champions who sha

04 Jul 2023
The patient I will never forget: inspiring encounters that enhance nursing practice

Nurses reflect on how individual patients’ experience of care inspired them to improve ser

30 Jun 2023
Patient safety: the care missed and the compromises nurses are left to make

Understaffing on the front line of care is not new, but increased pressures have taken it

23 Jun 2023
Agency nursing: what it’s really like and the pay you can expect

It can help pay the bills, and offer work-life balance, but agency nurses don’t receive th

16 Jun 2023
How five simple words have been humanising healthcare for a decade – so do you use them?

Ten years on from the #hellomynameis campaign, we explore nurses’ power to promote patient

02 Jun 2023
Conflict at work: 3 common flare-ups and how to resolve (or prevent) them

Work pressures, personality clashes and professional differences make ill-feeling in the w

01 Jun 2023
Missed out on the role you wanted? How to deal with career disappointments

Missing out on a role you want is disappointing, but viewing applications as a learning pr

26 May 2023
Your experiences of sexism in nursing: does the profession have a problem?

How covert sexism persists in nursing, whether as inequality in career progression or inap

19 May 2023
Why I quit nursing – and why I chose to return

As nursing faces a backlog of care and a short-staffing crisis, professionals who left but

12 May 2023
Why nurses google their patients – and could it spell trouble?

The ethical implications of patient-targeted googling, including potential breach of confi

05 May 2023
What irritates you most about nursing? The 5 most common gripes

We asked nurses to share their daily frustrations – find out what they said about hierarch

04 May 2023

COVID claimed the lives of more than 2,100 UK nursing staff, and those tragedies exposed th

28 Apr 2023

Some patients may find facial piercings or tattoos on nurses unsettling, but dress code rul

21 Apr 2023

Incivility in healthcare teams and individuals can impair performance, harm patient outcome

14 Apr 2023

Dementia diagnosis rates could be improved by a diagnostic tool with five criteria to check

12 Apr 2023

Many nurses notch up thousands of steps in a single shift.

12 Apr 2023

Nursing skills transfer well to volunteer roles in mountain and sea rescue operations.

31 Mar 2023

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