Cancer Nursing Practice
Searching for the best: the RCNi Nurse Awards
The search for the best in nursing is under way with the launch of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2018, the profession’s top accolade.
04 Dec 2017
Elaine Cole
Nursing Standard
Share great practice and inspire your peers through the RCNi Nurse Awards
RCNi Nurse Awards are open for entries as the search begins for the outstanding projects of...
04 Dec 2017
Nursing Children and Young People
Time to celebrate the best in child health nursing
Nominations are now open for the 2018 RCNi Nurse Awards.
01 Dec 2017
Mental Health Practice
RCNi Nurse Awards: the search for the best in mental health nursing is on
The search for the best of the best in mental health nursing is underway with the launch of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2018, the profession’s top accolades.
22 Nov 2017
Emergency Nurse
Celebrate the best of outstanding emergency care
Emergency Nurse welcomes nominations for the RCNi Nurse Awards 2018 to recognise and celebrate staff delivering outstanding work under severe pressure.
20 Nov 2017
Nursing Management
Celebrating excellence in nursing leadership
Nursing Mangement welcomes nominations from senior nurses for the RCNi Nurse Awards 2018 to recognise and celebrate staff who are finding new ways to put patients at the heart of care.
07 Nov 2017
Emergency Nurse
ED nurse leads huge improvement at Kent trust
Man on a mission Cliff Evans was sent on a secondment to work at Medway Maritime hospital in Kent in a bid to tackle high mortality rates and low staff morale.
23 Oct 2017
Nursing Standard
Capture the fracture: nurse-led service targets osteoporosis
A community service designed to help people with osteoporosis avoid secondary fragility fractures is seeing great results
28 Sep 2017
Nursing Children and Young People
Enabling children to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances through Sunflowers Care
For parents of children living with complex healthcare needs life can be fraught but at Sunflowers Care – a home away from home – children are able to get the support they need.
19 Sep 2017
Nursing Management
How to take a trust out of special measures
Thanks to consultant nurse Cliff Evans and a team of senior staff, patients at a Medway NHS Foundation Trust emergency department, Kent, are no longer being treated in corridors.
07 Sep 2017
Learning Disability Practice
Person-centred care for clients at the end of life
A team of learning disability nurses has created an end of life care package for clients that is helping them have a good death while supporting them to live their lives to the full.
25 Aug 2017
Nursing Standard
Dying with dignity in a hostel
A nurse-led training initiative has given staff in a hostel for homeless people the skills and confidence to care for clients at the end of their lives.
08 Aug 2017
Nursing Standard
Gold standard support for patients with rare cancer
Healthcare assistant Elaine Cooney, highly commended at the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017 for improving the experience of patients with a rare cancer, gives up her own time to make sure patients and their families are prepared for hospital
03 Aug 2017
Emergency Nurse
Support for bereaved families in the emergency department
When Rhian Burke felt the healthcare system failed her following the death of her son George, and the subsequent suicide of her husband, she decided to set up 2 Wish Upon a Star for bereaved parents and families.
27 Jul 2017
Nursing Standard
Assisted dying debate highlights need for palliative care improvements
Evidence given by nurse with motor neurone disease in support of changing the law on assisted dying highlights the need to invest in palliative care, whatever the court’s decision, writes managing editor Elaine Cole
24 Jul 2017
Nursing Standard
Picture this: photos improve wound management
A surveillance nurse’s project to add photos of wounds to electronic records and give...
Features
06 Jul 2017
Nursing Standard
Mental Health Practice
Student wins accolade for mental health project supporting young people
Nursing student Zoe Butler brought together groups of young people to discuss mental health...
Features
21 Jun 2017
Nursing Older People
Making the right moves
Liaison psychiatry team lead Nicola Wood has significantly improved the hospital experience for patients with dementia and their carers by slashing the number of moves they experience.
14 Jun 2017