Lynne Pearce
How does your manager recognise excellent practice?
Chief nurse Carolyn Fox explains the power of celebrating what staff do well
‘Effective CPR can be taught in less than 20 minutes – and that’s time well spent’
Nursing students in Scotland held a teaching event that trained more than 135 people
From student to staff nurse: advice for a smooth transition
How to make the most of preceptorship, plus practical tips from educators and new registrants
Shared decision-making: how nurses can help patients weigh up the issues
A person-centred approach will make interventions easier for patients to understand
Chronic pain: how to support patients by asking the right questions
What you need to know about assessing an individual’s experience of pain
The network for general practice nurses of the future
How student ambassadors are helping to promote the specialty as a first-choice career
Help patients plan for a potential health crisis
The ReSPECT scheme uses advance discussions to make care choices for a future emergency
Three minutes to save a life: the course designed to raise suicide awareness
University initiative aims to equip all staff and students to support people at risk
Adapting the NEWS early warning tool to assess patients in the community
Creating baseline measurements in the patient’s own home ‘makes perfect sense’
Is this your next challenge in emergency care?
A retrieval service role combines the fundamentals of nursing and the pressure of trauma care
Older LGBT people find a welcome at the rainbow café
How nurses can support people facing memory loss, isolation and the fear of discrimination?
COPD flare-ups: how to end the ‘gross overuse’ of antibiotics
Earlier and better patient education is needed to promote self-management
It’s okay to talk about dying
How healthcare professionals can overcome their reluctance to talk to patients about death and dying
Creating a fast track into practice nursing
A training course aims to provide everything needed for a career as a practice nurse
‘We want to take the fear out of giving end of life care’
Two students have developed a training module to allay the concerns of first-years
Why data and informatics are words to get excited about
Helping set standards for how information is used gives nurses a say in improving practice
From kitchen to care home: ‘my career change is as rewarding as it gets’
Care worker and prospective nursing student Ross Balmer outlines his ambitions
We should be building people up, not knocking them down
Zoe Butler explains how she is using her role as a university lecturer to inspire students