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Advice for new nurses: illustration of a nurse smiling, with question marks and medical equipment in speech bubbles above her head

Our nurse columnist on the wisdom of experience passed on by fellow students and nurses in

14 Oct 2025
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he role of registered nurses in learning disabilities cannot be allowed to disappear as they play a key role in enhancing health outcomes and addressing inequalities

Learning disability nursing specialists Jessica Lister and Jim Blair believe that the curr

30 Sep 2025
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Advertised nursing job on a small island has almost all the makings of a perfect post

An advertised nursing post on a small, remote island has almost all the makings of a dream

16 Sep 2025
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Learning disability nursing must be positioned as a compassionate profession

Learning disability nursing is a compassionate, skilled and socially aware profession that

07 Aug 2025
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Newly registered nurses are unemployed and demoralised: young woman holds up a sign reading ‘need a job’

Newly registered nurses are struggling to find jobs in the NHS due to funding gaps and fai

15 Jul 2025
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Differentiation of nursing roles: a nursing associate with a patient

The blurring of roles between nursing associates and nurses has led nursing associates to

10 Jun 2025
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The proportion of learning disability nurses registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council has declined over the past five years: a smiling learning disability nurse and client complete a written task

The RCN Foundation has funded a study, Exploring learning disability nurses' perspectives

29 May 2025
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Repeating mandatory NHS training: a nurse rests her head on the desk as if she has fallen asleep in a training session

Nursing staff can now transfer their completed statutory and mandatory training to differe

20 May 2025
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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

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

27 Jan 2025

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

21 Jan 2025

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

03 Dec 2024

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

27 Nov 2024

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

19 Nov 2024

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

14 Oct 2024

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