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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
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
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
‘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
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 burnout busters: my staff retention to-do list for managers and nursing employers

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

13 Aug 2024
Staggered break times turns out to be a winning falls-prevention strategy for inpatients

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

23 Jul 2024
Paracetamol theft: does the punishment fit the crime?

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

02 Jul 2024
DNACPR tragedy will prey on the consciences of nurses involved, but they are all of us

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

14 May 2024

Nursing skills are needed across the NHS and other public services, and experienced older n

16 Apr 2024

Nurses expect workload demands and pressures to influence shifts and rosters, but there has

19 Mar 2024

Managing high-stakes, safety-critical situations is a daily reality in nursing, yet some of

20 Feb 2024

Using nurses as cash cows for driving to work, and worse, hitting them with fines if they s

16 Jan 2024
05 Jan 2024

New rules to prevent overseas staff bringing family to the UK send a hostile message to wor

03 Jan 2024

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