Career advice
Making the trial run
Better approaches to screening, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease are made...
21 Oct 2015
Let’s sit down and talk about it
Conflict between colleagues or managers is all too common when working in pressured...
21 Oct 2015
Five steps to work happiness
Most of us have an ideal job in mind, but many also feel we will have to jump through lots...
21 Oct 2015
The right rewards
Rewards are an effective way of persuading people to change their behaviour.
14 Oct 2015
Learning from collaboration
Getting staff from different nursing disciplines together to share information is an...
14 Oct 2015
Don’t lose sight of the finish
If you’ve embarked on an exciting new goal but the enthusiasm you felt at the beginning has...
14 Oct 2015
Supporting patients with bowel cancer is a tough but rewarding role
Paula Madden says dealing with young people who have a poor prognosis is always tough
08 Oct 2015
Values light the way to work
Since the inquiry into care failings at Mid Staffs, ‘values’ has become a buzzword in...
07 Oct 2015
Succeed as an agency nurse
Agency nurses have to adjust to new environments while juggling clinical responsibilities...
07 Oct 2015
Prepare to succeed
Nurses are increasingly required to give presentations, whether in front of their class, to...
07 Oct 2015
A chance to sell yourself
A good CV should make the reader want to meet you. It should tell a compelling story that...
30 Sep 2015
Healthy staff provide better care
Supporting staff to improve their own health is crucial to getting care right for patients,...
23 Sep 2015
Passion will follow after skills
A wait-and-see attitude to career planning is rarely the path to success.
23 Sep 2015
Striking the right staff balance
Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust is one of a number of trusts across England currently...
16 Sep 2015
Keep the focus on the patient not the process
Catherine Oakley says busy health services must avoid focusing on processes at the expense...
10 Sep 2015
Feeling the pressure at work
Nursing can be a particularly stressful profession. It is not just physically demanding, but...
09 Sep 2015
Brush up on your pitch
The elevator pitch has become shorthand for the brief statement used as an introduction in a...
02 Sep 2015