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Inspectors highlight lack of joined-up health and adult social care services
Focus on managing delayed discharges has ‘almost overwhelmed other priorities’, warns Care...
Newsroom
Too few primary care nurses with leadership roles involved in service delivery decisions
Nurses’ Voice network seeks to help primary care nurses develop their careers
Safeguarding framework will help nurses protect their patients
RCN sets out competencies for healthcare staff in relation to adult safeguarding
Leadership programme aims to enhance nurse research and innovation
Senior nurses and midwives can apply to improve their professions’ influence
Nurses’ role 'more significant than that of doctors’ when spreading good practice...
Study by Warwick Business School reveals benefits of nurses in ‘hybrid’ leadership positions
Inspectors highlight lack of joined-up health and adult social care services
Focus on managing delayed discharges has ‘almost overwhelmed other priorities’, warns Care...
What does high turnover in nurse director posts really mean for the profession?
With Nursing Standard research showing trend remains unchanged, experts consider the impact
Evidence and Practice
How can critical thinking make me a better nurse?
Critical thinking can help nurses provide excellent care and improve patient well-being
Student-led simulation: preparing students for leadership
It is vital to prepare nurses to become informed leaders with the required knowledge and...
Effects of ambulatory emergency care on organisational and patient outcomes
The aim of ambulatory emergency care (AEC) is to provide patients with ambulatory care‑...
Safeguarding of vulnerable adults training: assessing the effect of continuing...
Aim This article provides an insight into the effect of safeguarding of vulnerable adults...
Results of cross-faculty ‘capstone’ assessments involving nursing and performing arts...
This article describes how ‘capstone’ assessments were created to provide two different...
A novel solution to the nursing workforce crisis: recruitment of overseas nurses living...
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has recruited nurses from overseas from within and...
Features
Interprofessional teamwork in stroke care
This is the third in a series of six articles that aim to encourage nurse leaders to explore...
‘How I turned a demoralised group into a strong, diverse team’
Sandra Bennett’s leadership unlocked the potential of a struggling multicultural team
Providing care for people with dementia alongside other long-term conditions
Part two in our research series: supporting carers responsible for people with dementia
RCNi’s new digital resource will support nurses in making clinical decisions
Interactive tool offers fast point-of-care access to guidance and best-practice information
How training could improve the way HCAs relate to older people
A research review shows the importance of good relationships for clinical outcomes
I was depressed and anxious - and running a mental health trust
Lisa Rodrigues hopes talking about her anxiety will help leaders struggling to cope
Opinion
CQC inspections may achieve few tangible benefits
A study of how CQC inspections influence healthcare performance has startling insights
How senior nurses can help fight antimicrobial resistance
Non-prescription advice pads rolled out to support Keep Antibiotics Working campaign
Adapting overseas models of health and social care to the UK: what could work?
Providing help funded through long-term care insurance may be part of the answer
Careers
‘I love to see residents happy and content, and their relatives reassured’
Julie Newman, manager of Ivybank House care home, Falkirk, reflects on her career to date
‘Never let anyone force you into lowering your values as a nurse’
Nursing support director Paul Jebb on the importance of role modelling
60 seconds with Macmillan director of nursing Barry Quinn
Barry Quinn talks about his career in cancer and palliative care and the lessons learned