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Nurses often have revolutionary ideas to improve patient care, yet too often they’re not h

18 Nov 2025
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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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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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Wound management: two hospital nurses appear to attend to a patient’s sacrum, which is protected from view by a sheet

Pressure ulcer prevention is an example of essential nursing care that should always be pr

29 Jul 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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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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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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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

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

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

16 Sep 2024

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

13 Aug 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

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