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RCNi Nurse Awards 2019: past winners share their inspiring stories
Cancer Nursing Award 2018 winner on how the prize promoted her team’s achievements
Newsroom
Not good enough: RCN’s verdict on pay offer to NHS nurses in Northern Ireland
College consults members on what they want to do now
RCN poll reveals concern that lack of nurses compromises patient safety
Survey of UK public also finds more than half demand more funding for nursing students
Combination therapy for untreated, metastatic, non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer
NICE recommends use of pembrolizumab with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy
Nursing apprenticeships: MPs move to inject momentum into stalling programme
Cross-party group wants a more flexible approach to funding and supernumerary status
Hospital parking: trust offers staff incentives to leave their cars at home
Nurses at the Royal Victoria in Belfast face calls to commute by public transport
Nurses say they value hospital volunteers, but worry about the tasks they’re given
Survey is the first time NHS staff have been asked what they think of ward volunteers
Evidence and Practice
Can community pharmacy practitioners support patients who take oral anticancer...
As more oral anticancer agents are available community pharmacy practitioners (CPPs) may...
Providing information early in the clinical pathway for people with prostate cancer
The National Cancer Survivorship Initiative recommends offering health and well-being...
Enhancing well-being and resilience in people living with cancer. Part 1
Receiving a new diagnosis of cancer or recurrent disease is distressing. Increasing numbers...
The experience of mastectomy patients on the 23-hour pathway
Aim To explore the experiences of women with breast cancer undergoing a mastectomy and...
The effect of yoga on the recovery of patients who have undergone a lung resection for...
There is increasing evidence of the benefits of exercise after cancer treatment to help...
Making sense of pain and loss: searching for meaning while living with cancer
This article presents some of the main findings from a study using an interpretative...
Features
How care for children with cancer can be improved
Round table of paediatric cancer nurses look at the challenges specialist nurses face
RCNi Nurse Awards 2019: past winners share their inspiring stories
Cancer Nursing Award 2018 winner on how the prize promoted her team’s achievements
Stemming the tide of violence towards NHS staff
With the 'threat of violence a daily reality', measures are being taken by government to...
Spiritual and psychological support: the nurse-led team helping people cope with cancer
Nurse counsellors lead the pastoral care services at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital
Providing holistic care for people with head and neck cancer
How two nurse specialists launched a service to advocate patient needs post-treatment
Receiving cancer care in the workplace
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre offers people in the north west of England cancer care in...
Opinion
Book review: Cutaneous Malignancies: A Surgical Perspective
Consultant nurse Elaine Tomlins reviews: Cutaneous Malignancies: A Surgical Perspective
Book review: Revalidation: A Journey for Nurses and Midwives
Lead nurse Carolyn Middleton reviews: Revalidation: A Journey for Nurses and Midwives
Nurses’ safety when administering SACT must be given the priority it deserves
Too many healthcare providers rely on personal protective equipment alone for their staff
Students
Don’t worry if you shed a tear
Looking after a patient nearing the end of life can be daunting, but one nursing student...
An insight into the hidden battles of patients with invisible illnesses
When nursing student Laurie Batchelor helped care for a patient in the community with cancer...
Student’s homemade songbook helped patients forget cancer symptoms
When nursing student Georgia Brain created a book of lyrics to help her patients remember...
Careers
My job: clinical nurse specialist
Millicent Blake-McCoy qualified as a primary school teacher, but the pull of nursing was too...
My job: Influencing policy through my nurse manager role
Chief of nursing Karen Roberts on providing clinical expertise and advice to Macmillan...
‘My holistic role overlaps the boundaries between medicine and nursing’
Nurse consultant Carol Diver advocates taking up new opportunities – even if it takes you...