Careers
Don’t let NMC’s blueprint for community care pass by without specialist nursing input
Nurse burnout: the course helping staff to be advocates for self-care among colleagues
Is it time to step up to a band 6 nursing position?
Career advice
Don’t let NMC’s blueprint for community care pass by without specialist nursing input
QNI sees flaws in regulator’s plan and urges nurses to respond to its consultation
Nurse burnout: the course helping staff to be advocates for self-care among colleagues
Course aims to meet nurses’ emotional needs using clinical supervision model
Is it time to step up to a band 6 nursing position?
The pandemic may have given you a taste of more senior roles – so consider your next move
Fear and anxiety can infect teams, but you can harness this crisis to come out stronger
COVID-19 is putting nurses under extreme pressure, so here’s how to help colleagues cope
We saw first-hand how learning disability nurses helped our son
After witnessing their son’s care, a couple have decided to become learning disability nurses
Tapping into the wisdom of learning disabilities nurses
The RCN wants all acute hospitals to have 24-hour access to a learning disabilities liaison nurse, who can help develop policies and procedures for patients with learning disabilities and are experts at dispelling the anxiety felt by such patients when they enter hospital
My job
Dementia awareness and diagnosis: looking beyond the learning disability
How an Admiral nurse aims to empower individuals and help nurses identify early age dementia
How I make the emergency department less daunting for people with learning disabilities
Lauren Johnston describes her work in a pioneering nursing role
It’s a real privilege to support a family at the end of their child’s life
Sabine Schwaebisch on her role as as a band 6 care team nurse in palliative care at Helen House Children’s Hospice, Oxford, where 95% of children have a learning disability
‘Be brave, be fearless and always listen’
Helen Laverty is the leading light behind the Positive Choices conference
Examining successes over investigating failures is the way forward, says emeritus...
Ulster University's emeritus professor Roy McConkey thinks you can learn a great deal more from examining success than investigating failure, in this profession.
'Remaining focused on working together will move our profession forward'
As one of two learning disability consultant nurses in England, Joann Kiernan is keen to share resources to promote the provision of effective care.