Comment

Image
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
Image
Road sign post seen against a blue and cloudy sky. The sign points in opposite directions: work to the left, retirement to the right. Changes in NHS pension rules mean some nurses are choosing to return to practice, even in retirement

Nursing skills are needed across the NHS and other public services, and experienced older

16 Apr 2024
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image

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

03 Jan 2024
Image

Health passports were designed to address health inequalities for autistic people and help

20 Dec 2023
Image
Nurse sneezing

Nurses who are unwell are too often bullied into working or made to feel guilty if they ta

13 Dec 2023
Image

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

07 Dec 2023
Image

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

06 Dec 2023
Image

Nurse urges colleagues to actively listen to what patients – notably women – tell them in

29 Nov 2023
Image

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

28 Nov 2023

Nurses at every level need assurance complaints will be dealt with – which is why system-wi

21 Nov 2023

Tourette’s may present challenges in a clinical role, but can also enhance empathy with pat

08 Nov 2023

Brain injury charity set up by the actor and her mother funds nurse education and campaigns

23 Oct 2023

Nurse employers must not pressurise staff to turn up for work if they experience adverse re

18 Oct 2023

Nurses working in hierarchical hospital environments can find it challenging to raise conce

17 Oct 2023

Ineffective leadership is often behind nurses’ reasons for leaving, such as bullying, stres

11 Oct 2023

Jobs