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When you think you’re a good organiser, but they think you’re just plain bossy
Steps you can take to ensure nurse colleagues don’t misread your good intentions
Newsroom
Take a break, have a smear test: NHS trust’s bid to boost uptake among staff
Workplace cervical screening is proving a hit with nurses
Northern Irish trust tells office-based nurses to clean their own workspace
Union Unite says the directive may aim to save money but is ‘absurd’
Matt Hancock draws fire for claiming some nurses stand up when a doctor enters the room
Nursing community takes to social media to accuse health secretary of ‘spouting rubbish’
NHS hospital patients in England to receive free sanitary products
Scheme to tackle ‘period poverty’ is good news for nurses, says RCN
‘If we don’t fill vacancies we can’t begin to take on other challenges’
Nursing shortage is profession’s most pressing issue, England CNO Ruth May tells summit
New nursing leaders announced for NHS in England
Chief nursing officer Ruth May says senior team can ‘deliver on our commitments’
Evidence and Practice
Supporting patients with serious mental illness during physical health treatment
Why you should read this article • To recognise the disparity in health outcomes for people...
Implementing reasonable adjustments for disabled people in healthcare services
Improve your awareness of the adjustments that can be made
Effective approaches to health promotion in nursing practice
Understand how health promotion approaches can be embedded in your role
Use of nutrition therapy in the management of diabetes mellitus
Find out how nutrients can affect glycaemic levels in patients with diabetes
Enhancing the quality of clinical supervision in nursing practice
Why you should read this article: • To understand the role of clinical supervision in...
Identifying and differentiating stroke and stroke mimics
Why you should read this article: • To understand how to differentiate between stroke and a...
Features
Shared decision-making: how nurses can help patients weigh up the issues
A person-centred approach will make interventions easier for patients to understand
'We're creating the nursing roles of the future'
As a trust chief nurse, Carolyn Morrice is a pioneer of integrated care and new nursing roles
How to recognise and treat pain in someone with dementia
When nurses ‘think pain’ and take appropriate action, it can transform patients’ lives
Chronic pain: how to support patients by asking the right questions
What you need to know about assessing an individual’s experience of pain
The network for general practice nurses of the future
How student ambassadors are helping to promote the specialty as a first-choice career
Help patients plan for a potential health crisis
The ReSPECT scheme uses advance discussions to make care choices for a future emergency
Opinion
Workforce: Will perma-flexi be the new bank and agency nursing?
Flexible employment contracts are on the rise elsewhere, but not much has changed in the NHS
Beware of claiming to know your patient best
Can we really say nurses build a closer rapport than other multidisciplinary team members?
Jane Bates: tales of dangling eyeballs are nothing more than fake news… honest!
It can be hard for nurses to debunk myths that some patients seem to prefer over hard fact
Students
What it was like to deal with a patient in cardiac arrest for the first time
Acting and learning under pressure was emotionally draining – but here’s why it was worth it
Please don’t call me ‘the student’
Nursing students have names – and an expectation to be part of the healthcare team too
The next generation needs encouragement, not derision
Critical comments such as ‘you're too posh to wash’ only dampen students’ enthusiasm
Careers
When you think you’re a good organiser, but they think you’re just plain bossy
Steps you can take to ensure nurse colleagues don’t misread your good intentions
Support in a crisis: what to bear in mind when comforting relatives in distress
How to feel better equipped to support patients’ loved ones when they are upset
How to build a career that combines clinical and research skills
Clinical academic nursing is relatively new but growing, with a career framework to match
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