Nursing Standard
A recommended read…
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16 Dec 2015
James Buchan
Nursing Standard
Workforce
Chancellor George Osborne’s July budget announcement about four more years of pay constraint for NHS nurses is as much a political calculation as a way of containing public expenditure; the cap on NHS pay increases will probably take us through to the next general election.
26 Aug 2015
Nursing Standard
Workforce
With almost three million registered nurses, the United States is the largest English-speaking nursing labour market in the world. Attracted by career prospects not available in their own countries, many nurses emigrate to the US, which also has the highest number of nurses working in advanced practice.
01 Jul 2015
Nursing Standard
Magnet nursing services recognition programme
Overview In an environment rife with controversy about patient safety in hospitals, medical error rates, and nursing shortages, consumers need to know how good the care is at their local hospitals. Nursing’s best kept secret is the single most effective mechanism for providing that type of comparative information to consumers, a seal of approval for quality nursing care: designation of magnet hospital status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet designation, or recognition of the ‘best’ hospitals, was conceived in the early 1980s when the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) conducted a study to identify which hospitals attracted and retained nurses, and which organisational features were shared by these successful hospitals, referred to as magnet hospitals. In the 1990s, the American Nurses Association (ANA), through the ANCC, established a formal programme to acknowledge excellence in nursing services: the Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Program. The purpose of the current study is to examine whether hospitals selected for recognition by the ANCC application process -ANCC-accredited hospitals–are as successful in creating environments in which excellent nursing care is provided as the original AAN magnet hospitals were. We found that at ANCC-recognised magnet hospitals nurses had lower burnout rates and higher levels of job satisfaction, and gave the quality of care provided at their hospitals higher ratings than did nurses at the AAN magnet hospitals. Our findings validate the ability of the Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Program to successfully identify hospitals that provide high-quality nursing care.
08 Mar 2000
Nursing Standard
Uncertainty on career prospects
More effort is required to increase provision of, and ease access to, conversion courses for enrolled nurses, says James Buchan in his monthly column.
11 Mar 1992
Nursing Standard
NHS Trusts and equal opportunities
The Equal Opportunities Commission (HOC) report on women’s employment in the National Health Service was generally critical of current equal opportunities practice (1). One area in which the EOC indicated concern for the future was pay: 'The growing autonomy of NHS units to award total pay additions, and the move away from centralised pay bargaining by NHS Trusts, may exacerbate gender differentials in pay.’ (1)
11 Dec 1991