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Patients can be misled when the word ‘nurse’ is part of the title of a non-registered role

‘Nurse’ title for unregistered roles is a dangerous deception and holds us in contempt

Healthcare support staff are invaluable, but inflated titles do them no favours either

Nurse retention: steep rise in newly registered nurses quitting profession means action is needed to boost morale and reduce burnout

Nurse burnout busters: my staff retention to-do list for managers and nursing employers

Here’s how to give newly registered nurses – and all nurses – the workplaces they deserve

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Mental healthcare and digitalisation: picture shows computer screen with System Hacked warning – recent ransomware attacks and technology outages have underlined the need for robust cybersecurity measures and disaster recovery plans

Embracing digital innovation can be a benefit, but beware ransomware attacks

As long as digitalisation enhances human connection, the benefits are clear to see

Smiling nurse helps patient get up from bed, showing how ward nurse intervention is important in preventing inpatient falls

Staggered break times turns out to be a winning falls-prevention strategy for inpatients

How a hospital team has all-but eliminated falls in a simple but systematic way

Image shows a member of healthcare staff facing an open cupboard and holding a plastic bottle of medication

Paracetamol theft: does the punishment fit the crime?

Why I find it hard to swallow nurse’s six-month suspension for taking ward painkillers

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A depressed and fed up looking nursing student site on the stairs of college

Why more needs to be done for the mental health of future nurses

Pre-registration nursing programmes can be challenging and demanding

Blurred image of healthcare professionals moving at high speed with a hospital trolley along a corridor, suggesting the time and workload pressures facing emergency department staff

DNACPR tragedy will prey on the consciences of nurses involved, but they are all of us

Patient’s death tells us what we already know, but will it change anything?

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A young boy sitting on a swing in a children’s play area in a park

Why the shared experiences of 6,000 adults are a source of inspiration

Truth Project inspires despite inaction on recommendations of inquiry into child sexual abuse

Illustration showing two nursing team members in uniform standing pointing at a huge shift roster, as if discussing filling or swapping shifts

Unsocial shifts and rotas: what’s your breaking point?

Nurses are flexible but there has to be give and take if the NHS is to boost retention

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An illustration showing a person’s movements being picked up by a motion sensor

While technologies can benefit patient safety, we need service user and nurse input

With a surge in technology use in mental health, the pros and cons should be assessed

A nurse stands in front of a line of other nurses, looking happy and confident. Yet nurses often downplay their role

Our professional inferiority complex: why you’re never ‘just’ a nurse

Safety-critical care is what we do, yet some of us can’t resist the urge to downplay

Car park pay machine and pay-and-display signs in a hospital car park – hospital nurses face charges and fines for parking at work

Hospital car parking: who exactly is making a profit from all those charges and fines?

Using staff as cash cows if they drive to work shows how far goodwill has fallen in the NHS

Cruel curbs on migrant care workers’ lives are at odds with British values

Rules to stop overseas staff bringing family are also risky for the care sector and NHS

Do autism health passports actually help nurses and patients in practice?

Two autistic researchers look at the pros and cons of health passports
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Mental health nursing: education revamp is boost to profession

Revamp of psychosocial intervention training will enhance therapeutic relationships

How my disability made me a better, braver nurse

As nurses we can use our own experiences as patients to enhance person-centred care

Why reform of the Mental Health Act should be a priority

The King’s speech offered nothing on Mental Health Act reforms, so we must push for change

Patient’s clinical negligence complaint left me broken and isolated by misplaced shame

Accusation blighted my life – but here’s how I survived, and you could too

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