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Too few primary care nurses with leadership roles involved in service delivery decisions
Safeguarding framework will help nurses protect their patients
Leadership programme aims to enhance nurse research and innovation
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Leadership programme aims to enhance nurse research and innovation
Senior nurses and midwives can apply to improve their professions’ influence
Many older hospital patients with dementia cannot communicate pain, suggests study
Researchers examined relationship between pain and delirium
NHS pay deal: RCN pledges independent review over confusion
Petition submitted to RCN amid anger over how some members say it promoted NHS pay deal
Nursing students lobby MPs over investment in nurse education
Students hope to influence policymakers as part of RCN campaign to secure funding boost
Nurses who donate blood are urged to keep their appointments in the run-up to Christmas
Blood stocks can drop in festive period as donor bookings are missed or cancelled
Nurse restored to register after alcohol misuse says ‘it should be easier to get help’
Kenneth Brady was struck off by Nursing and Midwifery Council for six years
Analysis
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
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
Early intervention: how Blackpool’s health visitors are bucking the national trend
Transforming the health visiting service for young children and vulnerable families
Winter pressures: how will the health service cope this time round?
With winter looming, pressure builds for Matt Hancock to turn around the past two years of...
Clinical update
Intermediate care and reablement
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released new guidelines on...
Multiple morbidities assessment
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released its new guidelines...
Clinical update – infusion therapy
Ensuring the safest care for patients undergoing infusion therapy through updated guidance.
Clinical update: monitoring during anaesthesia and recovery
New standards on patient monitoring require hospitals to provide capnography throughout...
Multiple morbidities assessment
People with multiple morbidities need a tailored approach to care, according to a new...
Policy briefing
Safeguarding framework will help nurses protect their patients
RCN sets out competencies for healthcare staff in relation to adult safeguarding
Animals in healthcare
A new RCN protocol supports nurses in planning to bring dogs safely into care homes and...
Updated National Early Warning Score
In December 2017, the Royal College of Physicians updated the National Early Warning Score...
Staff retention: employers advised to listen more to nurses
New guidance on staff retention from NHS Improvement encourages employers to listen to...
Emergency department standards
The latest policy and what it means for healthcare professionals.
Enabling professionalism in practice
The latest policy and what it means for healthcare professionals.
Podcast
Podcast: Celebrating the legacy of Mary Seacole
The latest podcast looks at the life and legacy of Mary Seacole, children's mental health,...
Hear how a nurse-led acute response team dramatically reduced cardiac arrest
Series 3 Episode 6: Nurse practitioner Amor Palada talks about preventing cardiac arrest
Reaching out to nursing students via the internet
Series 3 Episode 4: how the online Student Nurse Project is connecting students nationwide...
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 Standard podcast: Agile working
Tissue viability nurse Debbie Wickens takes us on her rounds
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...
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