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How nurse-led change on a children’s day surgery unit reduced the wait for discharge

Nurses at a day treatment centre at Evelina London Children’s Hospital introduced a criter

04 Dec 2023
Heart attack stereotypes: would you recognise signs and symptoms, especially in women?

Nurse urges colleagues to actively listen to what patients – notably women – tell them in

29 Nov 2023
Patient’s clinical negligence complaint left me broken and isolated by misplaced shame

An accusation about my nursing practice blighted my life as well as my career, but I suffe

28 Nov 2023
Bullying in the NHS: more than just a few bad apples

Nurses at every level need assurance complaints will be dealt with – which is why system-w

21 Nov 2023
Tourette’s syndrome: how diagnosis has affected my career, and the support staff need

Tourette’s may present challenges in a clinical role, but can also enhance empathy with pa

08 Nov 2023
How working with non-nursing partners can improve your service

Working with ambulance and fire services helps a Bedfordshire nursing team respond to pati

02 Nov 2023
Flu jab uptake: why emotional blackmail and the promise of a lollipop didn’t sway me

Nurse employers must not pressurise staff to turn up for work if they experience adverse r

18 Oct 2023
Martha’s rule: what it is – and how it can help you advocate for patients and families

Nurses working in hierarchical hospital environments can find it challenging to raise conc

17 Oct 2023
Nurses thinking of leaving: is lack of leadership partly to blame?

Ineffective leadership is often behind nurses’ reasons for leaving, such as bullying, stre

11 Oct 2023
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

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

07 Sep 2023

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

31 Aug 2023

Leadership takes time, so ward managers should not be counted as part of the nurse staffing

23 Aug 2023

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

03 Aug 2023

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

20 Jul 2023

Influential nurses can be the catalyst for change in healthcare and the nursing profession,

19 Jul 2023

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