Mental health workers have shared stories of being punched, bitten and kicked as they explain how reductions in staffing levels are leaving them vulnerable to attacks by patients.
A change in the law allows schools to purchase spare adrenaline auto-injectors to use on children with serious allergies.
Prescribing nurses based in Scotland joined in a series of lively debates at a free conference.
Guidance on helping patients in the advanced stages of serious and terminal illness to travel abroad has been updated.
Tributes have been paid to a nurse who died while protecting his wife from harm during the Las Vegas attack.
Public access defibrillators intended to assist non-medically trained people in saving lives may be failing to do so because people lack confidence in them.
The £50 million cost of providing pay rises for health professionals in Wales should be covered by the UK government, the country’s secretary for health insists.
Eight new guiding principles for establishing district nursing teams have been introduced in Wales.
The standards of proficiency that nursing associates may be expected to meet before they can qualify will make a clear distinction between their role and registered nurses.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has moved a step closer to accepting alternative methods of assessing a nurse’s ability to speak English.
A ‘health passport’ mobile phone application has been developed to support children and young people in London manage their asthma.
Health experts and epilepsy charities have repeated calls to Jeremy Hunt to ensure all women taking a drug to control their seizures have a yearly consultation to discuss risks of the drug associated with pregnancy.
Awareness of HIV among healthcare professionals should be increased and targeted testing interventions introduced for older adults, say researchers.
An exhibition celebriting diversity in nursing is set to open at the RCN next month.
New standards from QNI and QNI Scotland
A link between a certain type of bacteria in the vagina and the risk of contracting chlamydia, which can increase the chance of HIV infection and lead to other long-term problems, has been found by researchers in the Netherlands.
People are reluctant to use public access defibrillators to treat cardiac arrests as they don’t know where they are or how to use them, a study suggests.
The draft version would be sent to sites that are piloting the role.