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A guide to help nurse consultants and clinical nurse specialists assess the impact they have on patients, colleagues and staff outside their organisation has been published. It helps nurses quantify [...]

Effective communication skills are vital if nurses are to be sensitive and responsive to the needs of patients with dementia and improve the quality of their acute hospital experience. Nurses [...]

NHS organisations across the UK have reduced the number of district nurses they employ in the past few years, despite government plans to shift acute services from hospitals into the [...]

The British Paralympic Association's chief nurse has told Nursing Standard about the hectic preparations under way to ensure athletes receive the best nursing care at this summer's games. Austin Thomas [...]

Perhaps the only certainty in life, apart from death and taxes, is that things are going to change. As Learning Disability Practice went to press, the four governments of the [...]

Delegates at this year's RCN congress will discuss whether nursing can be recommended as a career. This is likely to prompt debate about how to encourage a broad spectrum of [...]

Last month, an independent panel set up by the government to examine and understand the causes of last summer's riots published its final report. The riots, communities and victims panel, [...]

There are various strands to the Care campaign being run by Nursing Standard, but foremost is its aim to ensure that high-quality care is the top priority in every healthcare [...]

Managing heart disease successfully requires well-informed patients who are able to change their diet and smoking behaviour, and to manage complex drug regimens. Social support from family and friends reduces [...]

THE F1RST nurses to provide healthcare at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been named. Jessica Arthurs and Sara Lee, both emergency nurses at the Royal Gwent Hospital, will [...]

THE NATIONAL Network for Learning Disability-Nurses (NNLDN) has ceased trading after it was unable to secure funds following its loss-making conference in Bangor last July. The organisation, set up 12 [...]

The RCN hosted a conference on public health earlier this month. As you would expect, a number of very important issues were raised in relation to the state of the [...]

Nursing staff should actively encourage willing relatives and carers to help patients at mealtimes, members of the National Assembly for Wales have recommended. An assembly inquiry found that relatives are [...]

With thousands of different roles in the professions we regulate, there is no such thing as a typical nurse or midwife. Our registrants provide care in diverse settings all over [...]

Prime minister David Cameron must have been listening to Nursing Standard readers before announcing his drive to improve nursing care. Your support for the following campaigns appears to have paid [...]

Few people believe that the proposed English health reforms will improve patient care and public health. There are no reasons to support the total reconstruction of the NHS, when it [...]

NURSES SHOULD undergo rigorous assessments before they are appointed to high-level posts to ensure strong leadership, according to the top nurse at a leading foundation trust. Chief nurse at University [...]

A diabetes nurse specialist working with Arabic-speaking communities has received a 6,250£ award to further her work tackling type 2 diabetes. Sonia Wijesundare, who works at Central London Community Healthcare [...]

A BOARD game developed by a nurse to teach staff how to improve infection control in hospitals has gone on sale. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust nurse specialist in [...]

SINCE THE launch last year of the governments' strategy for the NHS, there has been much debate in the Department of Health (DH) on the role of commissioners in ensuring [...]

NURSES ARE facing increasingly demanding healthcare needs, with shrinking resources. Public expectations are greater, enhanced by awareness of failings and highlighted by high profile cases of neglect and poor care. [...]

The recent civil disturbances in England were both shocking and deeply unsettling. However, as is often seen in times of national crisis, hope shone though in the places where it [...]

A nurse-led education programme for patients about to undergo a knee replacement has led to average hospital stays being reduced by around a third, a study indicates. In the 20-month [...]

There is a myth that nurses 'eat their young', that we are hostile to our students and newly qualified colleagues. The reason for this, legend would have it, is because [...]

CHANGES TO the way care is delivered for people with learning disabilities in the past decade have resulted in learning disability nurses working across a variety of service providers. This [...]

CLINICAL NURSE adviser Nigel Chapelle has launched a campaign to encourage nurses to spot signs of domestic violence among patients. As part of the 'white ribbon' campaign, Mr Chapelle, who [...]

WHEN I joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) last year, I believed that, for the regulator to be effective, we needed to look outward and build a network of [...]

SUMMARY UK nurses jointed international colleagues to discuss the profession's contribution to fighting chronic conditions. Keywords Chronic diseases * Healthy lifestyles * Role models ********** Nurses are ideally placed to [...]

'Every year more women suffer rape or attempted rape than have a stroke, and the level of domestic abuse in the population exceeds that of diabetes by many times.' These [...]

Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon visited a scheme in Irvine where nurses from NHS Ayrshire and Arran give health checks on the street. Public health facilitator for communities Mary Gordon [...]

A NEW critical care unit, designed with the help of nurses, has opened at the Royal Marsden Hospital. The 10 million £ 19-bed unit was built after a fire destroyed [...]

Nurses working for the same charity as aid workers who were shot dead in Afghanistan this month are determined to continue their work. British doctor Karen Woo and American nurse [...]

Life for people who have a learning disability is challenging, and made even more so because they have greater health needs than the general population. As community learning disability nurse [...]

The Department of Health (DH) is encouraging employers to allow their nursing staff a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity by volunteering at the London Olympics. Nurses will be a vital [...]

Community nurses can double the time they spend with patients through improvements to their working day, according to a management consultant company. In its report on addressing the challenges facing [...]