Primary Health Care
The diversity of community nursing
Prolific community nurse Jayne Sankey has more than 30 years of primary care under her belt, but developing and mentoring staff has stayed as important as it was in 1986
30 Apr 2018
Erin Dean
Emergency Nurse
How new laws on paramedics prescribing drugs could help emergency nurses
Health chiefs says the changes could have a beneficial impact when treating time-critical...
25 Apr 2018
Nursing Standard
Pay and recruitment take centre stage at congress
Delegates will debate staffing, the water bottle issue and how to attract more men into...
24 Apr 2018
Cancer Nursing Practice
Improving diagnosis of Lynch syndrome could help catch bowel cancer early
To coincide with bowel cancer awareness month, the newly merged charity Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer warns that while people with the genetic condition called Lynch syndrome have 80% risk of bowel cancer many hospitals are not following national guidelines on testing
19 Apr 2018
Cancer Nursing Practice
Enhancing quality of life for people after cancer care
With cancer survival rates continuing to grow, the NHS is sharpening its focus on supporting people once they have finished receiving treatment. For many people who are living with and beyond cancer, there is a significant physical, mental and lifestyle legacy from the disease and treatment. Large numbers of people feel abandoned after cancer care. In a bid to combat this, NHS England has produced a quality of life metric
13 Apr 2018
Primary Health Care
Walk down memory lane with the QNI on nursing in the community
To mark 150 years of community nursing, the Queen's Nursing Institute has produced an awe-inspiring collection of accounts, rare footage and old photographs from the people who were there
10 Apr 2018
Nursing Older People
Social care green paper must address workforce crisis
With the social care system struggling to meet the needs of older people, a green paper to be published this summer will detail the government's long-term plans for reform.
06 Apr 2018
Nursing Children and Young People
Award finalist develops a children's rights charter for health board
Runner up at the 2017 RCN in Wales Nurse of the Year awards, Eirlys Thomas wants active engagement in better care for children by making sure their voice is heard.
06 Apr 2018
Nursing Standard
Is stereotyping affecting your pay?
A planned research project will investigate whether social attitudes to nursing have created...
05 Apr 2018
Emergency Nurse
Emergency care model cuts death rates from chronic lung disease
Admitting patients with chronic lung disease directly into respiratory specialist care from the emergency department could save lives across the NHS, as one hospital is demonstrating
28 Mar 2018
Nursing Children and Young People
Children’s services: NHS regulator issues guidance following 96 failed CQC inspections in England
While the RCN has welcomed NHS Improvement guidance following Care Quality Commission inspections in April 2017, the college believes the advice on staffing and skill mix should be mandatory
23 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Nurse-led team winning the race against sepsis
Sepsis kills more people in the UK each year than lung cancer, with persistent shortcomings in initial assessment and emergency treatment. But in one trust that has struggled with sepsis care, a nurse-led team based in the emergency department is demonstrating the dramatic impact of early intervention
23 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Nurses help spark improvements to trust placed in special measures by Care Quality Commission
Nurse-led innovation has been credited with helping turn around a struggling NHS trust in only 18 months
20 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Advice on setting out of hours staffing levels for specialist palliative care
Guidance seeks to define the minimum nurse and doctor numbers required to maintain 24-hour specialist palliative care services in hospital, community and hospice settings
20 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Early rehab cuts mortality rates for pneumonia patients
Patients with pneumonia admitted to intensive care have lower rates of in-hospital mortality when they receive early rehabilitation, including range-of-motion and muscle-strengthening exercises, researchers say
19 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Parents’ mental health impaired when children are seriously ill
Parents whose children need intensive care treatment suffer clinically significant impairment of their mental health, researchers say
19 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Wales adopts safe staffing laws while the rest of the UK watches
Will the rest of the UK follow suit?
15 Mar 2018
Nursing Standard
Support for men with cancer to keep working
A new guide, Working with Cancer, aims to support men to continue working after a diagnosis, saying that doing so can help recovery by providing something other than cancer to focus on and keeping things ‘normal’
12 Mar 2018