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Speakers and hoodies for nurses in £850,000 gratitude scheme
‘Advanced’ nursing associate job adverts labelled exploitative
Frequent attendance in the emergency department: how can you make a difference?
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Speakers and hoodies for nurses in £850,000 gratitude scheme
Trust staff award ‘hearts’ to peers to exchange for items such as Bluetooth speakers
‘Advanced’ nursing associate job adverts labelled exploitative
Some job adverts promise band 5 status, leadership and line management responsibilities
Are you working beyond your band? In one part of the UK you can now ask for role review
Band 5 nurses in Scotland can request banding review if they believe they’re undervalued
Online learning sites offer ‘nurse prescribing course’ from £9
Course can be taken by anyone aged 16 or over and appears to offer no assessment
Nurse suspended from register for stealing paracetamol from ward’s supplies for own use
It was common for staff to use ward paracetamol – I thought it was allowed, nurse told NMC
Nurse who failed to attempt CPR told she must not be in charge of a shift for 12 months
NMC ruled registrant failed to show leadership in an emergency and must retake training
Analysis
Frequent attendance in the emergency department: how can you make a difference?
Initiatives such as personalised care plans can help towards respectful care
General election: bite-size guide to parties’ promises on health and social care
How the Westminster poll could affect your finances as well as your working life
Nursing apprenticeships and associates: are the programmes fit for purpose?
Lost levy funds and restricted access to training have prompted calls for reform
What would Labour do for us? Wes Streeting explains party’s plans for health and care
Read our interview with the man who wants to be health and social care secretary
FtP: Yes it must be robust, but does it need to feel so intimidating and long-drawn out?
Why nurses deserve more compassionate, less traumatising treatment by the NMC
Newly registered but leaving nursing: is more support the answer?
Challenging dismissive attitudes, uncaring workplaces and ‘snowflake generation’ claims
Clinical update
Bronchiolitis: how to recognise red flag symptoms requiring emergency care
Updated NICE guidance focuses on diagnosis, red flag symptoms and when to seek emergency care
Wound care: what the framework for standardised treatment means for your patients
Guidance focuses on individualised care for pressure ulcers, lower limbs and surgical wounds
Cardiac arrest and CPR: guidance update aims to improve survival and patient outcomes
Resuscitation UK advice affirms role of advance care planning
Atrial fibrillation risk, treatment and self-care: updated guidance
How to recognise and manage the symptoms of AF and advise patients on lifestyle adjustments
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: what nurses need to know
A new report shows value of early interventions and community CPR training
Lung cancer or COVID-19? How to differentiate between their similar presentations
A new resource helps patients and nurses differentiate between the symptoms
Policy briefing
ReSPECT form update: a more patient-centred focus for advance care planning
How nurses can implement changes to the RCUK process for end of life decision-making
COVID-19: when you can refuse to treat a patient due to inadequate PPE
The implications for nurses of RCN guidance on care provision and inadequate PPE
Helping nurses to ‘defuse’ after difficult situations
The RCN has issued guidance on how to discuss and reflect on challenging incidents at work
Improving care for patients who have catheters
RCN updates its guidance on using catheters and how to minimise associated risks
Correct use of gloves and how to protect your skin
RCN Glove Awareness week stresses correct use of gloves and how nurses can protect their skin
Instant messaging: guidance for NHS staff in hospital
Guidance aims to help judge how and when to use instant messaging in acute clinical settings
Journal scan
Patients without primary care providers more likely to have CT scan in emergency...
American-based research finds more people who have CT scans in the emergency department didn't have a primary care provider
Research compares use of intravenous paracetamol with oral paracetamol for pain...
An Australian study looks at whether intravenous or oral paracetamol is more effective at reducing pain
Using an antistatic spacer with an inhaler improved asthma control, a study found
A study has found that using an antistatic spacer with an inhaler gave patients better asthma control
Alcohol screening: rise in referrals to clinical nurse specialist teams
A recent study looking into emergency departments’ (EDs) current practices regarding alcohol identification has found that there is an increase in their access to clinical nurse specialist (CNS) teams.
Management failure in treating skin and soft tissue infections
Risk factors, such as a fever, are associated with failures in the management of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in emergency department observation units (EDOUs), a review has found.
Lactate levels in patients with suspected sepsis
Emergency department (ED) sepsis screening algorithms should incorporate a serum lactate cut off of ≥2mmol/L as a threshold for the initiation of interventions and increased monitoring, research concludes.
Podcast
Job interviews: how to prepare for and succeed at them
Advice from a career coach to help dispel any nerves, plus how to answer common questions
Thinking of stopping your NHS pension? Here’s why you shouldn’t
The benefits of the NHS pension and why it is such good value for nurses
Why do NHS nurses in Scotland appear to get a better deal than elsewhere in the UK?
It seems staff there enjoy benefits their colleagues elsewhere can only dream of
Band Aid remembered: how one nurse inspired a phenomenon
Dr Dame Claire Bertschinger's work in Ethiopia in 1984 helped kickstart the charity song
NHS strikes one year on: how nursing staff took a historic stand with public’s support
Look back at what nurses told us on the picket lines, and why the campaign isn’t over
Author’s tale of pandemic journey – and what he owes to nurses
Michael Rosen reflects in our podcast on intensive care and his admiration for nurses
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