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Nurse struck off for stealing from patients: Addenbrooke‘s Hospital, where Kelvin Ramasta worked and met his victims

Struck off: hospital nurse jailed for stealing more than £100,000 from three patients

I was blinded by the money but am a good nurse, Kelvin Ramasta told NMC

Nursing band 5 and 6 roles: illustration showing a nurse in scrubs stepping from a platform labelled band 5 to one marked band 6, with bands 4 and 3 behind them

Band 5 or 6 nurse: the pros and cons of going for promotion

How do pay and career progression compare, and when is the right time to step up?

Nurse understaffing on surgical wards has a negative effect on patient recovery; picture shows a nurse smiling at a woman in a hospital gown who is sitting up in a hospital bed

Nurse understaffing raises risk of post-surgical pressure ulcers 

Understaffed surgical wards also have higher mortality rates, research finds

Learning disability nurses say they are struggling to cope with pressures from Court of Protection work

Toll of high-pressure court work means many nurses quit – or intend to

Learning disability nurses tell survey about struggles with Court of Protection work

Illustration showing a nurse holding a laptop computer while doing the splits, with feet resting on two stools – suggesting one foot in work mode, one in home mode in a flexible working system

How to make flexible working work for you and your team

It is supported in policy, but can be tricky to arrange – tips for making it a reality

Working from home: how to make it a reality

With flexible arrangements firmly on the NHS agenda, could home working work for you?

Evidence and Practice

Understanding literature reviews: a guide for enhancing nursing practice globally

Understanding literature reviews: a guide for enhancing nursing practice globally

This discussion of the different types of literature reviews highlights their distinct...

Recognising vicarious trauma in research: the experiences of researchers who work with victimisation data and the support they need

Vicarious trauma in research: supporting researchers working with victimisation data

Research institutions have a responsibility to promote safe research practices

Sex workers and their stories: using timelines as a creative method in research involving underserved populations

Sex workers and their stories: using timelines in research on underserved populations

Study involving sex workers shows value of creative methods such as timelines in research

Open access
Cocreating composite digital stories to share research findings with minority ethnic and disadvantaged communities: a reflective guide

Cocreating stories to share research with minority ethnic and disadvantaged communities

A guide to creating naturalistic, accessible digital stories that reflect research findings

Using a hybrid Delphi/nominal group technique to develop a tool for appraising the quality of mixed-method grounded theory research

Delphi-nominal group technique: developing a tool to appraise grounded theory research

How the hybrid Delphi-nominal group technique can assist nurse researchers

Protocol club: a social learning framework for the research delivery workforce

Protocol club: a social learning framework for the research delivery workforce

Addressing the training needs of a research delivery workforce at two NHS England trusts

Features

Montage of 15 podcasts selected to interest nurses

Listen to this! 15 podcasts made with you in mind

Podcasts that support your practice, share career advice, or help you wind down

A nurse in scrubs is frowning and hunching her shoulders in a sign of distress

Under excess pressure? The emotional signs of stress and how to deal with them

Tips for identifying worrying signs and supporting yourself and colleagues

An illustration of a group of nurses of different ages standing together inside a big speech bubble

How can nursing teams improve communication between generations?

Five nurses on the learning opportunities in teams with different levels of experience

News coverage

Protect your well-being: how to stay calm when the world feels chaotic

Ways to maintain your focus and balance in the face of relentless grim news

De-escalation techniques: 7 tips for handling conflict situations

Tension occurs in every setting – these skills can help you manage it and stay calm

Compassionate leadership: how to create psychological safety in your team

Developing a culture where staff feel supported leads to better care and morale. Find out how

Opinion

Free
Image shows an illustration of hands reaching up towards an open book: time for nurse research is often a casualty of high workloads and low staffing levels, but it is important to actively promote the value of developing and advancing nursing knowledge

Why we need to promote the value of advancing nursing knowledge

Nurses should work together to ensure the new world is a positive place

A survey’s success is dependent on a good response rate, asking the right questions, and ensuring respondents' answers are similar to the way people think and act in reality

How to plan and develop an effective survey tool

Key components include content, look and feel, as well as pilot testing

Developing as a researcher requires the support of ‘a village’ of people who provide knowledge, support and expertise to help you

Maturing as a researcher requires the support, skills and expertise of ‘a village’

Village people can shape your emerging skills, values and ways of working

Students

Mental health: challenging your own cultural taboos and unconscious bias

Supporting students to challenge their own beliefs about mental ill health

Evidence-based practice demystified: how to make nursing research come alive in...

It’s pivotal to care improvements and opens up exciting career opportunities

Get paid to teach fellow nursing students – and gain leadership skills

Internships offer a chance to gain teaching qualifications and insight into academic careers

Careers

Nurse appraisal meeting: two nurses in scrubs sit at a table having a discussion, as in a annual appraisal conversation between a manager and staff member

Your annual appraisal: how to prepare and what to expect

Tips to ensure your appraisal reflects your contributions, plus how it’s linked to pay

District nurse makes a home visit, working autonomously with only limited real-time support 

District nursing should be recognised as advanced practice – with band 7 pay to match

Better pay and pathways to promotion are key to making community role an attractive career

Clinical staff in a prison hospital setting. They are working in a dark corridor,

From emergency decisions to primary care – what my prison nurse role involves

A newly registered nurse on what drew her to the role and what she’s learned so far