Expert advice

Is it safe to prescribe both benzodiazepines and opiate analgesics?

Why nurse prescribers must take care in prescribing benz

18 Jan 2019

It’s best to meet your friends when you’re on your break – or wait until you’ve finished w

05 Jan 2019
Legal advice: Can I eat leftover meals intended for patients?

Busy nurses unable to take a break may see no harm in eating spare meal

02 Jan 2019
Workforce: Irony of easing language test for overseas nurses

Barriers for non-EU nurses are falling to help solve a self-made s

11 Dec 2018

Health secretary Matt Hancock would do well to follow the examples from

26 Nov 2018

How to be at the forefront of the drive to improve care for inpatients with diabet

08 Nov 2018

Temporary staff now have to cover chronic nursing shortages, not just 

06 Nov 2018

As a nurse, it's important to avoid being seen to endorse a product or service 

02 Nov 2018

When it comes to staffing, there's a larger, system-wide issue, says Ja

01 Nov 2018
Legal advice: Are patients allowed to read their bedside notes?

Although some clinical areas allow patients to read their bedside notes

22 Oct 2018

Ministers’ ‘golden hellos’ plan to boost district nurse recruitment still h

08 Oct 2018
Workforce: Puzzling over the failure to scale up nurse education

England’s failure to increase its training of new nurses shows the prof

27 Sep 2018

The latest survey shows little change in the attrition rate for nursing

13 Sep 2018

Holiday allowance is a legal right but when you take it must be arranged

28 Aug 2018

A better pay rise, retention of the student bursary and a commitment to&

24 Aug 2018

In light of the untimely deaths at Gosport, nurses should realise they c

14 Aug 2018

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has negotiated an impressive pay dea

13 Aug 2018

Most leave voters want the UK to continue recruiting EU nurses, but how

06 Aug 2018

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