Career advice

Exit interviews: useful retention tool or meaningless tick-box exercise?

When nurses plan to leave their post, exit interviews can help inform retention strategies

29 Mar 2023
How mentoring can help overseas nurses reach senior roles

Few of the UK’s 40,000-plus Filipino nurses are on band 8 or above – a mentorship programm

09 Mar 2023
How secondment could transform your career or offer a new direction

Secondment can offer new direction in your career and a chance to learn and test your skil

01 Mar 2023
QNI field-specific standards – what are they and how will they be used?

The draft standards cover specialist community nursing practitioner qualifications in six

01 Mar 2023
Returning to work: how to rebuild your confidence after an absence

Nurses returning to practice after stress-related leave or absence due to illness may find

15 Feb 2023
Redeployed to an unfamiliar area: what is a floating shift and do I have to work it?

With nurse staffing pressures making redeployment more common, find out how to cope if you

18 Jan 2023
Expedition nursing: an opportunity for thrill seekers to work while travelling

If you would love to combine work, travel and adventure – and you can take the responsibil

11 Jan 2023
Recruits from overseas: how to succeed in your career and thrive in the UK

What are the challenges foreign recruits face in building their careers?

22 Dec 2022
Virtual wards: what are they and what do they mean for different nursing roles?

Nursing roles are being reinvented as virtual ward and hospital at home services evolve, s

01 Dec 2022
What does it take to be a major trauma nurse practitioner?

Role of major trauma nurse practitioners combines aspects of critical care, leadership and

23 Nov 2022
Are you a super-helper? How to ditch the guilt and avoid burnout

Super-helpers never say no to helping someone out – even though it might be to their detri

16 Nov 2022
What does an occupational health nurse do and could it be the role for me?

Role requires empathy and excellent listening and communication skills – and in return can

10 Nov 2022

It can help maintain a healthy, supported nursing workforce, yet access to good quality cli

04 Nov 2022

Tips on being an effective leader from charity chief executive Joanne Bosanquet, who built

19 Oct 2022

Talking about loneliness can still be seen as a taboo in healthcare settings, with those in

29 Sep 2022

NHS England Midlands’ aspiring nurse and midwife leaders programme aims to improve represen

15 Sep 2022

An RCN Nurse of the Year describes how work pressures combined with a traumatic event led t

08 Sep 2022

Nurses’ health and well-being will be top of the agenda at the careers fair, where you can

26 Aug 2022

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