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What’s happened to the mental health nursing workforce?
How fitness to practise fears raise suicide risk for troubled nurses
Personality disorders: how the new consensus statement seeks to improve care and
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Training standards on use of restraint could become mandatory for NHS in England
The Restraint Reduction Network has been commissioned to create the evidence-based standards
Matt Hancock: 'determined to return commitment put in by staff'...
New health and social care secretary commits to championing undervalued staff
New York nurses receive $20.8 million settlement for gender discrimination
City of New York concedes that nurses can retire early due to ‘physically demanding’ role
Investment vital to ensure NHS plans a reality for mental health workforce
Targeted recruitment drive needed to fill 7,600 mental health nursing vacancies, says RCN’s...
MP voices concern for CPD cuts in bid to improve staff retention
Department of health and social care to look at recommendations addressing CPD cuts
Call for nurses to ‘do 10,000 of anything’ to help colleagues in need
#10kForNurses campaign supports staff experiencing hardship
Analysis
What’s happened to the mental health nursing workforce?
RCN warning for one year old mental health workforce plan, suggesting initial targets will...
How fitness to practise fears raise suicide risk for troubled nurses
Campaign group calls for better support for nurses reported to regulator
Personality disorders: how the new consensus statement seeks to improve care and
Consensus statement looks to overturn stigma of personality disorders
Nurse training targeted to reduce suicide rate
Initiative aims to cut suicides by 10%; funding focused on eight hotspots
Child support services often miss clues from past trauma, say mental health experts
Many mental health problems are linked to adverse childhood experiences, but young people...
Mother and baby units in perinatal mental health
In February, NHS England announced a £23 million additional investment in perinatal mental...
Clinical update
Consider the risks associated with ADHD
New National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines suggest that early signs of...
Recognise and respond to child abuse and neglect
Read our summary of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance to help...
Parkinson’s disease
Updated guidance from NICE on the diagnosis and management of Parkinson’s disease includes...
Multiple morbidities assessment
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released its new guidelines...
Learning disability and mental health
Read our guide to a new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) quality...
Mental well-being and independence for older people
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a quality standard...
Policy briefing
Updated National Early Warning Score
In December 2017, the Royal College of Physicians updated the National Early Warning Score...
Acas guidance on sexual harassment in the workplace
Acas has produced new guidance on recognising sexual harassment in the workplace and the...
Acid attacks
Read our policy briefing on new guidance for helping in the immediate aftermath when people...
Scotland's new mental health strategy ...
Read our policy briefing on the Scottish government's new ten-year mental health strategy.
Policy update: physical restraint in healthcare settings in England and Wales
Memorandam of Understanding clarifies when police and nursing staff should respond to...
Responding to a request to hasten death
The RCN has published updated guidance on assisted suicide.
Journal scan
Parents’ mental health impaired when children are seriously ill
Parents whose children need intensive care treatment suffer clinically significant...
Alcohol use disorders a major risk for dementia, especially early-onset
Alcohol use disorders are a major risk factor for all types of dementia, especially early-...
Learning, memory problems seen in adolescents with OCD
Adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder have learning and memory problems that could...
Women prone to mood swings prompted by season, daylight
Women experience seasonal changes in their mood across the year, including more depression...
Singing in groups shown to promote recovery, improve mental health
Singing in groups could help improve patients’ mental health, promoting a feeling of...
Young show perfectionism more than past generations
Young people display greater perfectionist tendencies today than 30 years ago due to the...
Podcast
Nursing Standard podcast: Could parliament's Brexit chaos be the catalyst for...
Episode 7 of the Nursing Standard podcast has an interview with nurse peer Baroness Mary...
Nursing student bursary was ‘far from ideal,’ says nurse MP Maria Caulfield
The nursing student bursary should not be championed as the best way to train nurses and new...
'Integrate the four fields of nursing,' leading academic tells the Nursing...
A two-stream system should be introduced to replace the four fields, nurse leader tells...
Nursing Standard podcast: Foundation years for nursing students
Universities may need to use foundation years to ensure students can meet new registration...
Nursing Standard podcast: RCNi Nurse Awards 2018
RCNi nurse of the year 2017 Melanie Davies talks about her achievements
Nursing Standard podcast: End of year Christmas quiz
Get 2018 off to a winning start with this week’s Nursing Standard podcast Christmas quiz and...
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