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Pay strike: health visitors plan walkout as dispute shifts to role regrading
Lincolnshire County Council claims split grades reflect variation in skills and experience
PHE confirms presence of potentially fatal tick-borne disease in the UK
Encephalitis virus can affect the brain and central nervous system
Investigation reveals ‘confusing’ array of diabetes nursing job titles
Wide variation in job names, with ‘nurses’ below band 5, prompts call for standardisation
Senior nurse unfairly dismissed by NHS board, tribunal rules
Jeff Horn ‘gobsmacked’ by decision after two periods of stress-induced sick leave
Nurses boost health screening rates by using Facebook to promote prevention services
Practice staff are harnessing social media to widen uptake and reduce anxiety
Pay dispute: nurses on Guernsey head for industrial action
Channel island's RCN members are demanding pay parity with public sector colleagues
Evidence and Practice
Measles: the role of health protection teams and primary care
Why you should read this article • To gain knowledge of the prevalence and epidemiology of...
Death: a social disadvantage? How one hospice is addressing inequality at end of life
This article describes an initiative in a small independent hospice to develop an equalities...
Brief health promotion in urgent care centres: a qualitative study of patients’ and...
As the number of people with long-term conditions who die prematurely rises, the need for...
‘Why did I not I say something at the time?’ A reflective account of a public incident
A reflection on an incident observed while commuting relating to the issue of data protection
Family members’ and carers’ perceptions of palliative care provided by district nurses
This literature review identifies the challenges of delivering consistent palliative care
Upper limb rehabilitation following a stroke
Rehabilitation for upper limb impairment, which occurs in a majority of strokes, is reviewed
Features
Nurses use video link to keep older people out of hospital
Link enables nurses to triage people in care and nursing homes, reducing hospital admissions
Help older patients by tackling overprescribing
Polypharmacy puts many older people at risk of serious side effects
Preparing guidance for community and primary care non-medical prescribers
How a Wessex healthcare forum got together to provide support for nurse prescribers
E. coli infection: how every nurse can help prevent it
The Gram-negative bacteria is a growing threat in community and acute settings
Sepsis: what you need to know
Around 44,000 people a year die from the 'silent killer'. What can nurses do?
Wound care: treating the cause rather than simply covering it with a dressing
How to challenge the perceived inevitability associated with chronic wounds
Opinion
International year of the nurse and midwife offers a chance to showcase our talents
2020 will be a rare opportunity to demonstrate the value of nursing to the wider world
How nurses can support people with ME
Often referred to as the ‘invisible illness’, ME can be a highly debilitating condition
General practice nurses are super nurses, not doctors’ helpers
Frustrated and often undervalued, is it time to reconsider the general practice nurse role?
Students
It’s just not true that your first job must be in an acute hospital – and here’s why
QNI's Crystal Oldman on why the community is the perfect place to start your nursing career
What a placement on a remote island taught me about truly person-centred care
Working in this environment means really getting to know your patients, says Elizabeth Spence
Refugee camp made me thankful for NHS
A nursing student describes volunteering at a refugee camp and reflects on what she learned
Careers
Experiences of pregnant women with fetal diagnosis of congenital heart disease
Parent support groups have an important role for women with fetal abnormalities
Why community nursing is not just for older nurses
Newly qualified nurses can gain clinical skills and confidence outside the hospital setting
Helping nurses to integrate health and social care
Resources include a toolkit to support nurse leaders to make decisions about service redesign