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Care homes to receive 7% rise in funding for nursing
Care homes will receive a boost to nursing funding from next month, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed.
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Nurses from various settings and locations look back on their experiences of the emergency period of Covid-19, four years after the first lockdown.
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Nurses are facing record levels of discrimination from the public, as well as unwanted sexual behaviour by both patients and colleagues, the latest NHS Staff Survey has revealed.
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Nurses are among almost 70 health workers with long Covid who are jointly taking their case for compensation to the High Court.
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A care home group has appointed its first dedicated nurse consultant for people with Huntington’s disease.
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Three-quarters of frontline nurses in China were left burned out after the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study has suggested.
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The public backs the idea of a loan forgiveness scheme for student nurses in England, according to new YouGov findings.
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Health unions have begun consulting their members on the pay offer that has been put forward for Health and Social Care staff in Northern Ireland.
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Services for people in Scotland with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have been “dire” since the death of the country’s only specialist nurse, campaigners have warned.
Clinical
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As a national shortage of inpatient midwives puts pressure on maternity care, researchers at The University of Southampton explored the relationship between staffing levels and quality of care.
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The nursing associate role was created to address a skills gap and meet workforce needs. This article describes a table-top simulation designed to help embed the role in existing teams.
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A literature review has sought to establish the causes and consequences of burnout in nursing. This article explores its findings and recommendations for future research.
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A study at one trust explored the challenges and barriers experienced by nurses transitioning to the role of research nurse and how the process could be improved.
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It is hard to recruit and retain junior nurses in acute medicine. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust offers an education programme to support junior nurses working in this specialty and encourage them to stay.
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University Hospitals of Leicester has developed an education programme for nursing associates that is rooted in practice and firmly supported by a local university.
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A literature review evaluated the role of advanced clinical practitioners in supporting overstretched teams in primary care and found that they made a positive contribution.
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The Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has created a digital coordination centre to manage nursing rotas according to patient acuity and streamline bed allocations. This initiative won the Technology and Data in Nursing category in the 2018 Nursing Times Awards.