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How to get your preferred flexible work hours: new advice for nurses
Show your manager the benefits of letting you work when you want but be ready to compromise
Nowhere to take a break: nurses share workplace stories
Posts on Facebook page include reports of converted store cupboards and picnic benches
Nurses in Scotland urged to reject 5% pay offer in ballot
Offer fails to recognise safety-critical role of nursing and soaring cost of living, says RCN
Bullying in the NHS: steep rise in complaints about managers and other colleagues
Staff need to know concerns will be taken seriously as employers insist they’re doing more
Permission to work flexible hours still a lottery for Scottish nurses
They lack full benefits of flexible working and must rely on supportive managers
As biggest rail strike in 30 years begins across the UK – will nurses be next?
Disputes are taking shape over NHS pay, with a warning that many experienced staff could quit
Evidence and Practice
Professional, legal and ethical dimensions of prescribing. Part 1: professional
This first article of two identifies the main professional dimensions of prescribing practice
Using the ‘8Rs’ checklist to support safe vaccination practice
Enhance your understanding of the principles of safe vaccination practice
Integrating new non-medical practitioners in general practices
Barriers and facilitators to integrating new non-medical practitioners in general practices
COVID-19 and diabetes: onset and challenges in management
There is a clear correlation and bidirectional relationship between diabetes and COVID-19
Pre-registrant nurses’ perceptions of general practice as a first-post destination
Understand nursing students’ perceptions of entering general practice as a first post
Development of the nursing associate role in community and primary care settings
The role has been part of the health and social care workforce in England since 2017
Features
Help for vulnerable families that proves value of health visiting
Innovative projects supported isolated families during the pandemic
Effective communication with children and young people: tips and tricks
How to engage with younger patients and ensure they understand their care
Why I chose older people’s nursing and find it so rewarding
Five nurses reflect on why they enjoy their work and what continues to inspire them
Integrated care systems: why they’re going to matter to you (if they don’t already)
A seamless health and care system sounds like the perfect plan – but will ICSs work?
Type 1 diabetes in children: an overview of the condition and its management
Nurses are seeing more children with type 1 diabetes: a round up of treatment and advice
What inspired me to become a nurse – and why I choose to stay
Nurses reflect on their route into the profession and what keeps them motivated
Opinion
If a patient leaves me money in their will, would I be allowed to keep it?
What any nurse should consider before deciding whether to accept or decline money or gifts
Incivility at work and its impact on your morale as well as patient safety
Anger and bad feeling are a threat to nurses’ well-being and must not be tolerated
School nurses in dire need of more support to fulfil safeguarding role
Nurses distressed by inability to adequately safeguard and protect amid rising demand
Students
Clinical placement in a research and development team: what a nursing student can expect
Seeing clinical trials up close shows how medical ethics work in a real-world setting
How a practice education facilitator can help you get the most out of your placement
The role supports students in clinical practice and ensures NMC standards are met
What is supernumerary status and why does it need protecting?
With placements disrupted by the pandemic, some view students’ special status as under threat
Careers
The Admiral Nurse bringing dementia care to Traveller communities
Addressing the challenges to engagement, as well as discrimination
My first time in charge of a ward: what it taught me about delegation and leadership
Being in charge can seem daunting but go for it if you get the chance – and here’s why
What do clinical academic nurses do and would this dual role suit me?
How to use clinical experience to develop the evidence base that underpins patient care