Career advice
Healthy staff provide better care
Supporting staff to improve their own health is crucial to getting care right for patients,...
23 Sep 2015
Passion will follow after skills
A wait-and-see attitude to career planning is rarely the path to success.
23 Sep 2015
Champions needed
Provision of specialist epilepsy care across the UK is extremely patchy, with fewer than 300...
16 Sep 2015
Striking the right staff balance
Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust is one of a number of trusts across England currently...
16 Sep 2015
Feeling the pressure at work
Nursing can be a particularly stressful profession. It is not just physically demanding, but...
09 Sep 2015
Brush up on your pitch
The elevator pitch has become shorthand for the brief statement used as an introduction in a...
02 Sep 2015
Opportunity to make a difference
Clinical electives in developing countries can improve health through education,...
26 Aug 2015
Managing emotions at work
Every nurse is taught during training to put their emotions to one side when making...
26 Aug 2015
Mind your attitude
The Francis and Winterbourne View inquiries revealed significant concerns about nurses’...
19 Aug 2015
Change for the better
Nurses are in an ideal position to use the simple technique of questioning to help patients...
19 Aug 2015
Care home role needs direction
The scope of the registered nurse role in care homes is not widely understood.
12 Aug 2015
Faith in the system
Nurses often receive in-house training for their work with residents at faith-based nursing...
05 Aug 2015
Taking theory into real life
A programme that links postgraduate nursing students undertaking their final projects with...
05 Aug 2015
Too busy to take time out
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be painful and uncomfortable. More than one in three...
29 Jul 2015
Work in progress
Nursing roles have changed substantially in the past decade due to technological advances,...
22 Jul 2015
Making the most of complaints
Her role as a clinical adviser to the health ombudsman reminds Cherilee Angland that little...
22 Jul 2015