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Nursing Standard’s editor Flavia Munn and senior nurse editor Dr Richard Hatchett present a regular podcast on topics affecting nurses and healthcare in the UK.

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Modern nursing scrubs are built for practicality, unlike uniforms of the past, which have included items such as frilly caps, cuffs and corsets

Nurses’ uniforms: what do scrubs say about the nursing identity?

The latest Nursing Standard podcast looks at the changing image and nature of the profession

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Essential pain management: how to improve your skills, with real-world scenarios

Listen to this podcast to ensure you can recognise, assess and treat patients’ pain

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Matt Baker

‘Orwellian at times’ – troubling findings of review into nursing regulator 

Review team leader discusses what he found behind the scenes at the NMC

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Close-up image of Labour MP Wes Streeting, shadow health and social care secretary, with the Nursing Standard podcast icon in blue and red in the top corner of the image

NHS staff goodwill is exhausted, Wes Streeting tells podcast

Shadow health and social care secretary discusses Labour’s plans for nurse staffing levels

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Smiling woman greeting an interview panel

Job interviews: how to prepare for and succeed at them

Advice from a career coach to help dispel any nerves, plus how to answer common questions

Photo of a piggy bank, illustrating story about a podcast on nurse pensions

Thinking of stopping your NHS pension? Here’s why you shouldn’t

The benefits of the NHS pension and why it is such good value for nurses

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NHS nurses on an NHS pay strike picket line

Why do NHS nurses in Scotland appear to get a better deal than elsewhere in the UK?

It seems staff there enjoy benefits their colleagues elsewhere can only dream of

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A nurse standing next to a patient's bed appears anxious as she listens to someone who is out of camera

Conflict in healthcare: how to resolve issues calmly and safely

Tips on defusing conflicts, responding to aggression and the importance of staying calm

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Photo of Dr Dame Claire Bertschinger working in Africa in the 1980s, and the Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas?

Band Aid remembered: how one nurse inspired a phenomenon

Dr Dame Claire Bertschinger's work in Ethiopia in 1984 helped kickstart the charity song

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Photo of woman giving a presentation, illustrating a story about building confidence with public speaking

Public speaking: how nurses can excel at presentations

Cast off your fears and learn how to become a more confident speaker

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Three nurses walking through a hospital ward, chatting and smiling

How nurses can build their confidence at work

We discuss what is meant by confidence and steps that nurses can take to improve it

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Joy in nursing, and how the Code can support staff and managers amid workplace pressures

NMC leaders on incivility and promoting joy in nursing, and how the Code acts as an anchor

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Why nurses must support patients' right to a second opinion

We talk to the lead nurse of a service for raising concerns about patient care
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Not ‘just a skin tear’: why they matter and how they should be managed

What you need to know about this often overlooked type of wound
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NHS strikes one year on: how nursing staff took a historic stand with public’s support

Look back at what nurses told us on the picket lines, and why the campaign isn’t over
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Menopause: how one nurse started meaningful conversations at work

Wendy Madden is making sure nurses with debilitating symptoms don't suffer in silence
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Author’s tale of pandemic journey – and what he owes to nurses

Michael Rosen reflects in our podcast on intensive care and his admiration for nurses
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End of life care: tips on eliminating service inequalities faced by minority communities

Advice to help you tackle inequity, use your soft skills and address unconscious bias

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