Kimberley Hackett

collage of faces of some of the nurses named in the new year's honours list
Nursing Standard

Nurses named in New Year’s Honours: we’re proud, privileged and humbled

Nurses from diverse settings and specialties honoured for services to the profession

Conservative party election win
Nursing Standard

RCN vows to hold Conservatives to account over campaign pledges for nurses

Newly-elected Conservatives urged to tackle nursing shortages and release funds for students

Picture shows a teenager playing videogames in his bedroom. A new NHS clinic with specialist mental health nurses will help young people addicted to gaming.
Mental Health Practice

New NHS clinic with mental health nurses will help young gaming addicts

An NHS clinic with specialist mental health nurses will help young people addicted to gaming

Nursing Older People

How nurses can help older people out of the loneliness trap

Loneliness is a growing public health concern and nurses are being urged to help tackle it

Simon Stevens
Nursing Standard

Flexible working in the NHS: we’ve got to make it happen, says chief executive

Simon Stevens tells NHS Confederation the nursing shortage is service’s biggest challenge

Alison Leary
Nursing Standard

The nurses and midwives named in the Queen’s Birthday honours 2019

Leaders in clinical care, research, education and nursing management among those recognised

child looks out of window
Nursing Standard

Lobby politicians to act against child poverty, RCN members tell college

Nurse activists highlight effects of socioeconomic disadvantage on children and families

Nursing Standard

Congress demands mandatory sepsis training

RCN members back call for mandatory sepsis training after hearing survivor’s account

Twitter chat
Learning Disability Practice

Learning disability students’ virtual internship helps boost confidence

Running Twitter chats and dealing with nurses improves students’ experience

Primary Health Care

How in house staff development can grow your own district nurses

A trust has devised a range of courses to develop the skills of all its nursing workforce

Safeguarding
Primary Health Care

Safeguarding guidelines for protection of children and young people

RCN publishes updated guidance for safeguarding children and young people

LGBT heart
Cancer Nursing Practice

Ensuring nurses feel confident providing LGBT cancer care

Providing the best care can be challenging, but there are resources to help

Osteoporosis drug
Nursing Older People

Updated National Osteoporosis Society guideline on vitamin D

A guideline on which patients to test and who to treat for vitamin D deficiency

Child mental health
Mental Health Practice

Transforming children’s mental health services: the key points

With £300 million earmarked for such services, how will this affect nurses?

Care home sex
Nursing Older People

Care home providers should develop policies to support sexual expression for residents, says RCN

College publishes revised guidelines to offer support and education for staff

Primary Health Care

Ground breaking nurse Jane Chiodini's five top travel health tips

Essential travel health advice: what nurses need to know from the new dean of the faculty of travel medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Illustration showing abstract image of two human heads, one with cogs inside the other with a plant growing
Nursing Management

Nurses’ role 'more significant than that of doctors’ when spreading good practice, study confirms

Study by Warwick Business School reveals benefits of nurses in ‘hybrid’ leadership positions

Measles
Nursing Children and Young People

Link between measles and airflow obstruction

Childhood measles can affect post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction in later life

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