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Fears for NHS workforce as applications for nursing courses drop
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Nurses’ strike live: walkouts enter their sixth day
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Fears for NHS workforce as applications for nursing courses drop
Applications for undergraduate courses have fallen for a second consecutive year
Do you care for people with cancer and want to expand your career?
New cancer education and skills framework aims to develop nursing staff at all levels
Nurses’ strike live: walkouts enter their sixth day
Staff begin further day of action in bid to put pressure on ministers over NHS pay talks
Watch: see chants and support for nurses on picket lines
Nurses are receiving plenty of help from TV doctors, brass sections and more
Nurses’ strike live: news and pictures from day five
Nurses return to picket lines as fight for fairer pay and working conditions continues
Nurses’ strikes suspended in Wales as union members ponder fresh pay offer
Union leader repeats call for PM Rishi Sunak to push for talks to get under way in England
Analysis
A guide to complementary and alternative therapies
Advice for nurses on the potential benefits and harms of such therapies for patients
Celebrities with cancer: how their openness can influence others
Awareness of cancer influencers’ stories can help nurses offer the best care
Cancer treatment backlog: what’s gone wrong and how to fix it
New initiatives ease pressures in some areas, but coordinated action is key in the long-term
Pay offer: how it breaks down and what nurses need to know
Met with a decision to ballot on industrial action, NHS offer is among most complicated ever
Why are nurses more likely to be bullied than other NHS staff?
Advice for staff when faced with a toxic culture that poses a risk to them and patient care
Pain management: where to start and when to use assessment tools
How to improve your skills and confidence in managing patients’ pain
Clinical update
Wound care: what the framework for standardised treatment means for your patients
Guidance focuses on individualised care for pressure ulcers, lower limbs and surgical wounds
NICE recommends use of breast cancer drug as new treatment option
Trastuzumab deruxtecan is a targeted treatment that could extend patients’ lives
Cervical cancer: how the NHS at-home HPV testing trial is being rolled out
Cervix home HPV testing kits will help address shortfall in screening attendance
Lung cancer or COVID-19? How to differentiate between their similar presentations
A new resource helps patients and nurses differentiate between the symptoms
COVID-19 vaccine and chemotherapy: advice and guidance
Latest guidance on COVID-19 vaccination for patients receiving systemic anticancer therapy
Long-COVID: what it means and how to manage the longer-term effects
Advice from NICE on how to care for patients with ongoing symptoms of the virus
Policy briefing
ReSPECT form update: a more patient-centred focus for advance care planning
How nurses can implement changes to the RCUK process for end of life decision-making
COVID-19: when you can refuse to treat a patient due to inadequate PPE
The implications for nurses of RCN guidance on care provision and inadequate PPE
How to advise women about the new cervical screening test
More sensitive test could save hundreds of lives as infections will be spotted earlier
Helping nurses to ‘defuse’ after difficult situations
The RCN has issued guidance on how to discuss and reflect on challenging incidents at work
Correct use of gloves and how to protect your skin
RCN Glove Awareness week stresses correct use of gloves and how nurses can protect their skin
Marie Curie Legacy Campaign on the benefits of radiotherapy
The treatment is being undervalued in cancer care, experts say
Research news
Physical exercise may reduce risk of prostate cancer
Study finds reduced risk of prostate cancer among men with a specific DNA variation
Screening can reduce incidence of bowel cancer
People with bowel cancer who had colonoscopies tended to live longer, study shows
Gene causing rare form of kidney cancer identified
Children with Wilm’s tumour may no longer need nephrectomies
Drink helps track brain cancer
A chemical drunk before surgery can make brain cancer easier to diagnose and monitor
Skipping urgent referral linked to mortality risk
People with cancer who skip referrals are more likely to die within a year of diagnosis
Smoking down by one quarter in seven years
Cigarette smoking in England fell, pointing to the success of antismoking measures
Journal scan
Haematologic neoplasm in survivors of breast cancer
Incidence of myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplasia higher in women treated for breast cancer
Cancer diagnosis increases the risk of suicide
Researchers find suicide risk is highest in the first six months of a cancer diagnosis
Predictors of location of death for children receiving palliative care
More than one third of all children with cancer in the US die in an institutional setting
US study looks at outpatient palliative care referral patterns in oncologists
Understanding outpatient palliative care referrals among thoracic medical oncologists
Prognosis communication for people with head and neck cancer
Analysis of succesfully communicating prognosis for people with head and neck cancer
Optimising bed rest period to reduce lumbar punctures after chemotherapy
Randomised controlled trial of bed rest optimisation to reduce obstacles in chemotherapies
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