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Rachel OGara, Elizabeth Ackie, Helen Sibley, Sarah Sogeler, Sandi Hillery

Two hospice nurses have been commended for coming to the aid of a woman who had been stabbed in a knife attack.

04 May 2017
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Sarah Morgan

Charity funds have made it possible to recruit a mesothelioma clinical nurse specialist (CNS) for Wales.

04 May 2017
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Alcohol specialist nurses

Alcohol nurse specialist Kerry Lyons helps run a nurse-led alcohol service in Tameside which has seen a detoxification success rate of 84%.

04 May 2017
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Nurses or carers with unexplained experiences are wanted for a book on paranormal phenomena.

04 May 2017
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RCNi editorial team

Editorial team behind Nursing Standard and nine specialist journals awarded silver in the Content Team of the Year category at British Media Awards.

04 May 2017
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nutrition advice

An academic sees a role for all nurses in tackling public health inequalities as his university prepares to launch a new education module.

04 May 2017
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Paul Chesnaye and Jake Flint

Adult nursing students in London have been randomly selected to undergo a six-week placement with a mental health team.

04 May 2017
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Crystal Oldman

Ten nurses and allied health professionals have been awarded fellowships to travel abroad and investigate healthcare practice.

03 May 2017
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Labour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth promised a review of closures across the NHS and sustainability and transformation plans.

03 May 2017
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Emergency departments

Report says when consultants are in the emergency department to assess patients, there is less replication of work and decisions about next steps are made more quickly

03 May 2017
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Relatives who call patients in hospital are still being forced to pay 'rip off' charges of 50p a minute despite a promised clampdown on the issue.

03 May 2017
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Hardship grants

Eight nurses a day seek urgent help to cope with the rising cost of living and one-in-four callers receive hardship grants according to the RCN whic

03 May 2017

Two new council members have been appointed to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

02 May 2017

Theresa May critised by nursing leaders and Labour MPs for failing to explicitly say if it is wrong that nurses have to turn to food banks to make ends meet.

02 May 2017

How one hospital increased the amount of time nursing staff spend with patients.

02 May 2017

England could be hit by a shortfall of 42,000 nurses by 2020 and almost half of all nurses are worried about stretched staffing levels, a new report says.

02 May 2017

A pioneering helpline supporting palliative care patients in their final months is reducing hospital admissions. A nurse who works on the phoneline and lost her husband to renal failure says it should be rolled out nationally.

02 May 2017

A respiratory nurse consultant has worked on a two-minute video aimed at encouraging children to use their inhalers properly.

02 May 2017

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