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Nursing bank shift pay cuts: illustration showing a hand holding a pair of scissors as the person starts to cut into a red UK pound sign

Many nurses work bank shifts as a way to boost their income and also to provide staffing c

29 Apr 2025
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The RCN Foundation recently hired researchers from the London School of Economics to examine what the economic case for learning disability nurses is. A nurse holds the hand of a man with learning disabilities while talking to him

Many believe that learning disability as a field of nursing practice is in a perilous stat

31 Mar 2025
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Nurse dishonesty: CV has the word ‘false’ stamped across it in red letters

The public trusts nurses more than any other professional group.

11 Mar 2025
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Nurses performing CPR: debrief conversations as well as education updates are essential

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to keep nurses’ skills and knowledge up to date is

18 Feb 2025
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Learning disability nursing at a crucial tipping point: the challenge for registered learning disability nurses is to amplify ‘in profession’ confidence to strategic decision-making level

With registered learning disability nursing at a tipping point, confident and articulate n

27 Jan 2025
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Regulation of NHS managers: an NHS manager speaks to a staff member at a hospital nurses station

A proposal to establish a regulatory body for NHS managers is in consultation and could se

21 Jan 2025
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New NHS national uniforms in different colourways are designed to better distinguish nursing and other occupational groups 

Nurses in England’s NHS are to start wearing a national uniform, in a gradual adoption of

03 Dec 2024
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Learning disability nurse and health visitor Lauretta Ofulue appears in one of Dance Syndrome’s videos, which seek to encourage more people to join the profession

The involvement of a learning disability nurse in the care of Lauretta and Jerry Oful

27 Nov 2024
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A student nurse cares for an injured older patient. Placements help students build confidence and experience through hands-on care

Hundreds of nurse graduates have been told by the Nursing and Midwifery Council that they

19 Nov 2024
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Newly qualified nurses are having to seek employment elsewhere to make ends meet, such as in coffee shops or in retail. Picture shows a female barista making coffee

Newly registered nurses unable to get jobs in the NHS are having to seek employment elsewh

14 Oct 2024
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Lord Darzi’s investigation of the state of the NHS in England highlights the decline in numbers of learning disability nurses and health inequalities

Lord Darzi's report on the state of the NHS in England highlights that the numbers of

26 Sep 2024
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Patients can be misled when the word ‘nurse’ is part of the title of a non-registered role

Misleading job titles in nursing imply our work is so minor that being a nurse amounts to

16 Sep 2024

Nurse retention, burnout and low morale are challenges with a deliciously simple solution –

13 Aug 2024

People with learning disabilities and autism can die decades earlier than the general popul

25 Jul 2024

It’s heartening to hear how some hospital nurses have all-but eliminated falls on their war

23 Jul 2024

Nurse’s six-month suspension for taking paracetamol tablets from a ward supply is hard to s

02 Jul 2024

People with learning disabilities face distinct health and well-being challenges as they ag

05 Jun 2024

It’s not hard to imagine the terrible pressures in the emergency department where care fail

14 May 2024

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