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Some nursing associate adverts promise band 5 status, clinical leadership and other respon

20 Jun 2024
Are you working beyond your band? In one part of the UK you can now ask for role review

Nurses can apply for banding review if they believe their role has outgrown the scope and

18 Jun 2024
Online learning sites offer ‘nurse prescribing course’ from £9

Concern over online course that claims to cover highly specialist areas but can be ta

14 Jun 2024
Nurse suspended from register for stealing paracetamol from ward’s supplies for own use

NMC registrant suspended for six months after fitness to practise panel found she did not

13 Jun 2024
Nurse who failed to attempt CPR told she must not be in charge of a shift for 12 months

Sole nurse on a night shift at private hospital failed to show leadership in emergency, NM

12 Jun 2024

The decisive action of final-year nursing student Karen Cochrane after witnessing a heart

11 Jun 2024
Agency and bank: NHS employers’ spending hits record high

Health service employers’ bills for filling roster gaps rocket as union calls for long-ter

06 Jun 2024
Rugby star Gareth Thomas praises nurse who helped him cope with HIV diagnosis

Gareth Thomas tells RCN congress that support from sexual health nurse

05 Jun 2024
Nurse suspended for six months for record-keeping failures

NMC fitness to practise panel finds that agency nurse Chidinma Uzoma Onwuasoanya failed to

04 Jun 2024
Resolve pay issues this summer, Ranger tells politicians

Speaking at the RCN annual congress, acting leader Nicola Ranger said t

03 Jun 2024
Failure to refer to district nursing before woman’s sepsis death

District nurse referral did not happen after key information was missed from hospital disc

30 May 2024
RCN leader Pat Cullen quits so she can seek selection to stand in general election

General secretary who led nurses into historic strike action 

29 May 2024

Report reveals fewer young people interested in a nursing career and calls for dismantling

28 May 2024

Nursing leaders and organisations respond to the surprise announcement of a July general el

23 May 2024

Andrea Sutcliffe reveals tumour diagnosis is forcing her to step down as

22 May 2024

The whistleblowing agency nurse had shifts cancelled after questioning decision to put pati

21 May 2024

An NHS trust is relaxing uniform rules to make them more inclusive,

20 May 2024

Nurses in Derbyshire will be the first to wear the uniform, which comes in various colours

16 May 2024

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