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Nurses are still awaiting a 2024-25 pay offer, with the announcement of a UK general election set to cause further delay. The NHS Pay Review Body (RB), which makes pay recommendations for most Agenda for Change (AfC) staff in the UK, is considering evidence from staff side unions, the government and NHS Employers. While the RB may publish its recommendations, rules restricting government announcements during an election campaign mean any ministerial response would have to wait until after the 4 July results. The RB will make separate recommendations for Wales and Northern Ireland, based on evidence from the governments and unions there. The Scottish Government, which has undertaken direct negotiations with unions representing AfC staff since 2018, has yet to commit to a timescale for 2024-25. We look at how the picture differs in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including last year’s offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nurse who has revolutionised women's sexual healthcare in Northern Ireland has been named RCN Nurse of the Year 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses an interview with Northern Ireland chief nursing officer (CNO) Charlotte McArdle. Topics explored include her decision to apply for the CNO position despite the economic challenges being faced by Northern Ireland, her responsibility as professional adviser to the nursing and midwifery minister in the region, and the need to address the nursing shortage being faced by Great Britain.

The article discusses award-winning novelist Christie Watson's account of her 20-year hospital nurse career at the 2018 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) congress. Topics covered include her description of the job of nursing with its history, ethics and politics, her acknowledgment of nurses' hard work at present with the inadequate mental health support they receive, and the crisis the profession is facing globally. Also noted is her successful nursing memoir "The Language of Kindness."

The article examines the differences in nurses' pay in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, as of March 2018. The National Health Service (NHS) Pay Review Body (RB) is considering evidence on pay rises from staff side unions, the government and NHS Employers. Negotiations are being held between all key parties to try to reach agreement on changes to Agenda for Change (AfC) pay structure. The implication of the devolution legislation on pay structure is discussed.

The article discusses the author's conversation with Joleen McKee, a staff nurse and the recipient of the Learning in Practice award at the 2018 Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards. Topics mentioned include her experience as a nursing student, the student experience programme that she developed at Royal Victoria Hospital, and her plan of becoming a nurse lecturer.

Nurses in Northern Ireland were the first in RCN history to strike as part of continuing industrial action. The strike, which lasted for 12 hours on 18 December, was the first of its kind in the college's 103-year history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Royal College of Nursing-(RCN) backed campaign to get patients up and about as possible during hospital and care home stays in 2018. Topics covered include the role of nurses in reducing the risk of deconditioning in patients and in educating them on the importance of staying mobile during a hospital stay, and the additional complications that can arise from bed rest. Also noted is the need for skill and time in maintaining a patients' mobility and independence.

The article mentions Northern Ireland's planned recruitment of nurses mainly from the Philippines and some from India by 2020 to ease the country's chronic nursing shortage as of 2018.

District nursing in Northern Ireland is in a parlous state and needs urgent investment, warns Fiona Devlin [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the practice guidelines on caring for the deceased patient and their family, produced for nurses and healthcare assistants in Northern Ireland. Topics covered include the number of deaths recorded in the country in 2015, the key aspects of the document and the recognition of the value of the nurse's role especially during the period after a patient's death.

Specialist MS nurses in Northern Ireland help patients to get the drugs they need, reports Jennifer Trueland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nurse who transformed dementia care at her trust has been named RCN Northern Ireland nurse of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RCN leaders in Northern Ireland will decide this week whether to ballot members on industrial action over pay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a plan in Northern Ireland to allow ward sisters and charge nurses to have more free time to allocate to ward management as opposed to the standard practice of counting them as part of the ward staffing numbers. In addition, the author notes that many charge nurses have articulated a need for increased staffing and clerical support in order to allow them to adequately meet the needs of their patients and staff.

As Northern Ireland's first alcohol liaison nurse, Gary Doherty has dramatically reduced the number of hospital admissions where misuse was an issue. His work has won him the RCN's 2006 Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Award. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working in the community as manual handling nurse specialists, Linda Rankin and Emily Millar have run education programmes for parents and carers of mobility-impaired children as well as staff. Last week they were named Northern Ireland nurses of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Setting up a genetics service from scratch has won Aoife Bradley the title of Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year. Catharine Sadler reports on her success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the promises made by Northern Ireland's National Health Services (NHS) organization for recruiting new nurses in staff and its implications on other organizations.

Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT) is a cross-border health and social care partnership that focuses on the border region between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses from the European Union wanting to work in the UK will be asked to provide evidence of their English language skills under proposed new legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A critical care nurse from Northern Ireland has been awarded £9,900 after an employment tribunal upheld his claim of religious discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A senior nurse from Boston Children’s Hospital in the United States is among a group of experts to say children’s cardiac surgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is unsustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an obituary for former Irish nurse Kate O'Hanlon.

An obituary is presented for Tony Haughey, former chief nursing officer in the Northern Ireland Department of Health and Social Services.

Northern Ireland’s chief nurse has written to the chief executives of the country’s five health and social care trusts telling them to create ‘permanent posts’ where there has been persistent use of bank and agency staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nurse who set up a clinical intervention centre allowing patients to be treated in their community was named RCN Northern Ireland nurse of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Northern Irish nurses left out of pocket by a payroll glitch may be able to claim back bank charges incurred as a result of underpayments, health minister Edwin Poots has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urgent action is needed to solve a health crisis in Wales, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geraldine Browne, a care home manager, has been named RCN Northern Ireland nurse of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microchip technology that tracks how many times staff wash their hands could be introduced into nurse uniforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses views from nurse Kate O'Hanlon who cared for those caught up in the Northern Ireland Troubles. According to O'Hanlon, with prosperity and normality more or less restored, life in Northern Ireland at present is a far cry from the 1970s and 1980s. O'Hanlon's experience during the Northern Ireland Troubles is featured in her book "Sister Kate: Nursing through the Troubles."

The article reports on a major shift in services from hospital to community in Northern Ireland according to British Health Minister Paul Goggins. Health and social services will be overhauled and nurses will have a greater role in patient care. Prompt and effective treatment will be provided wherever possible by nurse prescribing. Case management by continuing care nurses introduced by the Homefirst Community Trust has been beneficial.

This article states that according to Bernadette McCreight, a lecturer in the School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies at the University of Ulster, Ireland, emotion should be seen as a resource rather than a weakness for nurses in gynaecology units. She studied the experiences of miscarriage and stillbirth among parents who attended pregnancy loss self-help groups. She conducted interviews with nurses and midwives in ten hospitals in Northern Ireland. Midwives and nurses suffer grief and fear when dealing with the loss of a baby and may find it difficult to cope with their emotional distress.

A district nurse has been banned from using a bicycle on her rounds because her managers fear she may be putting herself in too much danger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the collaboration between medical personnel and nurses to campaign for a ban in smoking in public places in Northern Ireland. Bid of RCN and the British Medical Association to encourage the public to take part in the government's consultation on the prohibition of smoking; Distribution of postcards to general practitioner surgeries and hospitals that can be posted back free as part of the consultation.

Community holds vigil to show support for staff forced to move from their homes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that nursing students have reacted with dismay to a decision by the Northern Ireland health department not to help them with their childcare costs. Since September students in England have been able to claim an allowance worth up to 85 per cent of the cost of a registered child-minder or nursery. Hilary Rowell, chair of the RCN association of nursing students, said she was 'naturally very disappointed'.

The article informs that the RCN's review of the nursing labour market, reveals good news and bad. There is much good news in the report, notably that between 1999 and 2003 the number of nurses increased in all four Great Britain countries. Expressed in whole-time equivalents, the number of nurses has risen by 16 per cent in England, 8 per cent in Scotland, 12 per cent in Wales and 13 per cent in Northern Ireland.

Hospital trusts in Northern Ireland are countering a wave of racially motivated violence against overseas nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that nursing students have held talks with officials in the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on financial hardship in Northern Ireland. Call of nursing students for bursary parity; Response of the department on the issues raised by the nursing students.

Announces that Aoife Bradley, Northern Ireland's first genetics nurse counselor, was named Northern Ireland nurse of the year by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in June 2004. Bradley's acceptance of the award from Northern Ireland Minister Amanda Smith; Bradley's establishment of a cancer genetic service at Belfast City Hospital.

Reports that midwives and nurses are supporting a High Court bid for the publication of legal guidance on when abortions can be carried out in Northern Ireland. Legal implications of aiding an abortion; Difference between an illegal and a legal abortion; Issue of objection to prevent healthcare professionals from being at risk of prosecution if they refuse to assist in an abortion.

Reports that pediatric nurse Liz Norris has been working in a hospital for 28 years without taking a day off due to sickness in Dundonald, Northern Ireland. Special certificate of achievement received by Norris; Effect of working on a happy environment on the health of Norris; Walking and gardening interests of Norris.