Nursing Standard

Essential news + CPDs + career development content for nurses. Part of @RCNi and RCNi Plus. Editorially independent.

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Do you think you’re too young to be a nurse leader?

Three nurses who were promoted to senior roles at a young age explain the benefits and challenges of taking leadership positions early on in their careers.

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Failures in the recruitment and supervision of a nurse consultant who audited their own high-risk, single-operated service put patient safety at risk, a review has found.

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Many nurses working in general practice are missing out on a 3.5% pay increase, despite a government pledge to give an ‘above inflation pay rise’ six months ago.

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A nurse who won a High Court appeal to overturn a decision to strike her off the register has told of her ‘harrowing’ 13-year ordeal to clear her name.

https://t.co/WD53zzebYZ

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LAST CHANCE: apply now for a CPD or learning grant of up to £2,500.
Applications close on 30 Sep.
Applications open to all nurses, nursing associates, healthcare support workers or students.
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Weight loss medicines: a guide for nurses

This article outlines the mechanisms of action of weight loss medicines and the risks they entail, including poor-quality dietary intake, muscle loss and weight regain after the cessation of treatment.

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When Tammy Hine saw a job advert calling for a nurse to work on the UK’s most remote inhabited island, she saw it as an opportunity for an adventure.

Ms Hine is the Fair Isle's only healthcare professional, providing care to its 50-odd residents.

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Assessing pain in patients with a learning disability: a nurse’s guide

Can you recognise pain in a patient with a learning disability if they are unable to articulate their experience?

Learn about tools to improve your practice.

https://t.co/UZrwiNG4Yc

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A nurse who won a High Court appeal to overturn a decision to strike her off the register has told of her ‘harrowing’ 13-year ordeal to clear her name.

https://t.co/WD53zzebYZ

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Bank pay bands: is it really a ‘win’ when nurses just get back what is theirs?

Click here to read this editorial > https://t.co/Sy37ABKrFI

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Nurse consultant who audited their own high-risk procedure endangered patients

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GP nurses missing out on 3.5% pay rise promised six months ago

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Nurse entrepreneurs: how to take a business idea and make it work

From starring in The Apprentice to having a near-death experience, nurses explain how their nursing careers and life events led them to set up businesses

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Striking health visitors claim they’ve been ‘vilified’ by NHS Employer for rejecting £5k offer

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Building trust with patients is essential, but maintaining boundaries while doing so can be challenging.

Find out how to recognise when someone crosses a boundary, and where to draw the line.

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Nurse suspended after refusing to start CPR on patient she believed had died

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Pay win for NHS nurses as employer reverses bank shift rate decision

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The latest on weight-loss drugs: what nurses need to know

We review the latest evidence, guidance and prescribing developments for glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medicines, and what this all means for nurses in practice.

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Lucy Letby: repeated failures by senior nurses may have put more babies at risk

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Oldest NMC fitness to practise cases stretch back to 2015

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