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A woman holds a tea bag above a cup of tea

Nurses give their views on whether NHS or other healthcare employers should provide hot dr

25 Nov 2025
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Nurses’ private lives: illustration of two nurses facing each other, with two arrow signs between them, one with the word WORK, the other with the word LIFE

Serious misconduct by nurses in their private lives should be considered in fitness to pra

21 Oct 2025
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Nurse working hours: exhausted nurse drawn draped over a clock

The case of a nurse, a former care home manager, who was suspended from the Nursing and Mi

23 Sep 2025
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CPD for nurses: a nurse studying via the RCNi Learn website on an electronic pad

Under existing Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) revalidation requirements, nurses must

26 Aug 2025
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Confidential patient records: a woman looking at files on a laptop and holding a mobile phone in her hand that displays a padlock

Nursing Standard columnist Jane Bates recalls how, as a young nurse working on Christmas E

19 Aug 2025
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The nurse as superhero trope can be damaging: two nurses stand atop a cliff, hands on hips while wearing capes

The stereotype of nurse as superhero feeds into a culture that makes nurses reluctant to t

31 Jul 2025
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Everyday nurse leadership: illustration showing a nurse speaking to a group of four nurses

At the recent International Council of Nurses (ICN) congress in Helsinki, Finland, nursing

24 Jun 2025
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A ‘staggering’ drop since Brexit in nurses coming from the EU to the UK has changed the sk

27 May 2025
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Flexible nursing degree: montage of woman in four contexts – home learning, parenting, on clinical placement and attending university lecture

A new flexible nursing degree enables students to fit their studies and clinical placement

22 Apr 2025
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UK nurse emigration: nurse carrying a suitcase stands on top of a globe with international destinations marked with pins

Number of nurses in the UK hoping to move abroad to work more than doubled in one year.

25 Mar 2025
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Nursing school closures: students attending a lecture. UK nursing school closures come despite chronic nursing shortage

University nursing school closures highlight the pressures on undergraduate nurse educatio

25 Feb 2025
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Remote nurse prescribing: a nurse providing patient care remotely sits, wearing a headset with a microphone, as she works on a desktop computer

A nurse has been struck off by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise p

28 Jan 2025

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been told it cannot act like the ‘nurse police’ and i

10 Dec 2024

Nursing students on clinical placement might need to miss shifts if they’re dealing with a

26 Nov 2024

The RCN has proposed that newly registered nurses (NRNs) start their NHS careers on band 6

22 Oct 2024

After riots across the UK in summer, the RCN updated guidance to remind nurses of the circu

23 Sep 2024

Nursing staff are being asked to do extra shifts to help clear the NHS backlog in England,

16 Aug 2024

Staff at an NHS trust can award colleagues ‘hearts’ they can exchange for gifts s

19 Jul 2024

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