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Diabetes_specialist_nurses

Diabetes specialist nurses teams are reaching ‘breaking point’, according to charity Diabetes UK.

28 Nov 2016
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CPD campaign logo

Northern Ireland’s unique approach to in-service learning and CPD could work in other parts of UK.

28 Nov 2016
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Lugain Althamy & Joanne McEwan

Joanne McEwan’s iPad app helps healthcare professionals to enquire sensitively about the issue.

28 Nov 2016
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Hospice care

Research by the charity Hospice UK reveals that less than a fifth of hospice care for adults is delivered in inpatient units

28 Nov 2016
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Bev Tabernacle

An NHS Trust offers nurses jobs immediately after successful interviews, in a bid to boost staff numbers.

28 Nov 2016
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palliative care plan

A plan for cancer services in Wales calls for palliative care training for nurses and improved access to clinical nurse specialists.

28 Nov 2016
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Sepsis

Health professionals, including nurses, are being urged to help tackle sepsis.

25 Nov 2016
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Donna Wood

Ebola nurse suspended for concealing colleague’s high temperature before virus was diagnosed.

25 Nov 2016
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Working abroad seems more popular than ever
Thousands of nurses have considered leaving UK to work overseas over the last five years, Nursing Standard can reveal.
25 Nov 2016
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brexit

Brexit could take the nursing workforce to ‘breaking point’, a leading nurse academic has warned.

25 Nov 2016
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nurse in boardroom

Executive directors of nursing need support from their boards to be successful in their roles, a leading nurse academic has said.

25 Nov 2016
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Anne Marie Rafferty

New degree apprenticeships hark back to exploitation of students, says nurse professor.

24 Nov 2016
A new test centre for non-EU and EEA trained nurses will be based at Oxford Brookes University.
24 Nov 2016

Conference speakers urge nurses to help lead change in public health.

24 Nov 2016

The RCN has accused the government of missing an opportunity to tackle the nursing workforce crisis after chancellor Philip Hammond failed to scrap the 1% public sector pay cap in his autumn statement.

23 Nov 2016

The battle for gender equality has become ‘even more determined and stubborn’ in the wake of the US presidential election result, the RCN International Centenary Conference heard.

23 Nov 2016

More than 100 nurses were made Queen’s Nurses, and four others named fellows at a ceremony in London

23 Nov 2016

Nurse-led service at Wirral cancer centre frees up bays for patients requiring more complex treatment

23 Nov 2016

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