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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

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A small girl wearing a nasogastric tube. A revised approach for checking the position of nasogastric tubes that would enable more children to remain at home

Why family-centred care is vital when a child’s health depends on technology

Offering support and understanding needs is a key part of the role of a children’s nurse

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

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 headshot of Dame Elizabeth Fradd

Remembering Dame Elizabeth Fradd, a champion for children and young people

The respected children’s nurse died on 12 May after a long and distinguished career

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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Video still from a UK Health Security Agency campaign with four children staring at the camera and the tagline: ‘If we’re not vaccinated, we’re not protected’

Worrying rise in pertussis cases across UK and Europe

Nurses should advise parents and pregnant women to book a vaccination appointment

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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A tired and ill child with measles lies down in bed

Surge in measles cases underlines the need for children to be vaccinated

Nurses should help parents get access to the safe and effective vaccines for their children

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

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PEWS could be a great leap forward as long as you have the staff to use it

New initiatives are to be welcomed, but investment in children’s nursing is a priority

How to help families discuss organ donation with children

Patients may find it difficult to talk about with loved ones – this book could help

How my disability made me a better, braver nurse

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

How nurse-led change on a children’s day surgery unit reduced the wait for discharge

Nurses in a new day surgery unit successfully introduced criteria-led discharges

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

Why we mustn't overlook dads caring for children with complex needs

Greater information about fathers’ needs would enable services to address them

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