Editor's choice
Readers’ panel: Should nurses be allowed to take naps on night shifts?
The Health Foundation is funding research on support for staff working night shifts
Newsroom
End of life: new standards promise measurable care improvements in the community
Nurses in participating general practices will be adopting the Daffodil Standards
Helen Whyley takes up permanent post as RCN Wales director
New head says she is proud to lead the team that supports and advocates for nurses
Nurses meet to start planning campaign for a safe staffing law
RCN members in England begin latest move to lobby government over nurse numbers
Celebrate your work and others who have helped you at the RCNi Nurse Awards 2019
Chair of judges Yvonne Coghill says her recent CBE ‘belongs to a lot of people’
Work-life balance driving increasing number of staff to leave the NHS
Health Foundation report highlights ‘worrying’ lack of improvement in retention rates
Irish nurses call off planned strike action
Nursing unions suspend industrial action to consider Labour Court's proposals
Evidence and Practice
Implementing laughter therapy to enhance the well-being of patients and nurses
Discover the physical and psychosocial benefits of laughter therapy for patients and nurses
Divisional review of the nurse specialist role
How nurse specialists can contribute to high-quality patient care and outcomes
Effective intercultural communication in nursing
Extend your understanding of effective communication with people from other cultures
Prevention and management of moisture-associated skin damage
Why you should read this article: • To enable you to outline the various types and...
Legal implications of pressure injuries: experience of a tissue viability nurse expert
Why you should read this article: • To understand the process of assessing tissue viability...
Role of nurses in supporting proactive deprescribing
Find out about the importance of proactive deprescribing
Features
The impact of nutritional care on patient outcomes
Why getting people eating well can be the key to getting everything right
How a hospital food plan can tackle more than nutrition
Communal dining and food waste reduction go hand in hand with the Food for Life programme
How I’m undoing the damage caused by workplace bullying
A nurse describes the professional and personal consequences of bullying by her manager
A mentor can open up opportunities you didn’t know existed
A BME nurse leader explains how her mentors guided her through daunting career challenges
What’s in a #name?
Five years since its launch, the hellomynameis campaign is still promoting compassionate care
Older LGBT people find a welcome at the rainbow café
How nurses can support people facing memory loss, isolation and the fear of discrimination?
Opinion
Readers’ panel: Should nurses be allowed to take naps on night shifts?
The Health Foundation is funding research on support for staff working night shifts
Jane Bates: How art helped me cope with the tough times
Jane Bates recalls how art galleries helped heal the stress of work as a nursing student
Malnutrition in the community: what you can do to support older people
Why it’s vital nurses recognise risk factors and challenge myths about weight loss and ageing
Students
Planting the seeds of sepsis education
A trip to India by RCNi student award winner helped her share infection control knowledge
Breakfast battle taught me to take the time to care
A patient’s refusal to eat toast that was cut the wrong way changed a nursing student’s ideas
The simple intervention that eases pet owners’ anxiety when they’re in hospital
My innovative ‘pet card’ helps patients plan who will look after their animals
Careers
Nursing and clinical research: let’s look at the impact of nurses
Without the wide spectrum of nursing roles in research there wouldn’t be excellent practice
Digital tech developers need nurses’ know-how
Involving nurses in developing digital technologies would open an exciting career pathway
Is this your next challenge in emergency care?
A retrieval service role combines the fundamentals of nursing and the pressure of trauma care
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