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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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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
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A small girl wearing a nasogastric tube. A revised approach for checking the position of nasogastric tubes that would enable more children to remain at home

Sometimes a child’s reliance on medical technology can have a negative effect on families,

14 Aug 2024
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Nurse retention: steep rise in newly registered nurses quitting profession means action is needed to boost morale and reduce burnout

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

13 Aug 2024
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Image shows a member of healthcare staff facing an open cupboard and holding a plastic bottle of medication

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

02 Jul 2024
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A headshot of Dame Elizabeth Fradd

Children’s nurse Dame Elizabeth Fradd, who died on 12 May, was a champion for children, yo

26 Jun 2024
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Blurred image of healthcare professionals moving at high speed with a hospital trolley along a corridor, suggesting the time and workload pressures facing emergency department staff

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

14 May 2024
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Video still from a UK Health Security Agency campaign with four children staring at the camera and the tagline: ‘If we’re not vaccinated, we’re not protected’

Children’s nurses should advise parents and pregnant women to book an appointment to get v

15 Apr 2024
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Illustration showing two nursing team members in uniform standing pointing at a huge shift roster, as if discussing filling or swapping shifts

Nurses expect workload demands and pressures to influence shifts and rosters, but there ha

19 Mar 2024
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A tired and ill child with measles lies down in bed

UK vaccination rates have reduced leading to a surge in measles cases, but the MMR vaccine

26 Feb 2024
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A nurse stands in front of a line of other nurses, looking happy and confident. Yet nurses often downplay their role

Managing high-stakes, safety-critical situations is a daily reality in nursing, yet some o

20 Feb 2024
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Car park pay machine and pay-and-display signs in a hospital car park – hospital nurses face charges and fines for parking at work

Using nurses as cash cows for driving to work, and worse, hitting them with fines if they

16 Jan 2024

New rules to prevent overseas staff bringing family to the UK send a hostile message to wor

03 Jan 2024

The launch of the paediatric early warning score (PEWS) is a step in the right directi

11 Dec 2023

Patients may find it difficult to talk about organ donation with loved ones, especially you

07 Dec 2023

Experiences that nurses have as patients themselves can inform their practice as well as he

06 Dec 2023

Nurses at a day treatment centre at Evelina London Children’s Hospital introduced a criteri

04 Dec 2023

An accusation about my nursing practice blighted my life as well as my career, but I suffer

28 Nov 2023

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