Work-family conflict, health status and job satisfaction among nurses

‘Role pressures associated with membership in one organization are in conflict with pressures restricting from membership in other groups.’ .

Supporting efforts for a global COVID-19 vaccine

Factors influencing nurses' engagement with CPD activities: a systematic review

The Cochrane and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines informed processes (Liberati et al, 2009)..

Reducing restrictive practice: a pertinent issue for children's services

Reducing restrictive practice in adult, mental health and learning disability services with the aim of limiting the occurrence of challenging behaviour is clearly being driven forward with the CQC...

The importance of upholding the duty of candour during patient care

The introduction of the duty of candour was part of the Government's plans to modernise the NHS by making it more accountable and transparent and it remains an enforceable duty for providers to carry...

Looking back over the past year in patient safety

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2020)State of Care annual assessment of health and social care in England noted some improvement in NHS acute care, where 75% of core services were rated as good or...

Positive obligations to protect against deprivation of liberty in the community

The European Court of Human Rights requires that nurses consider three elements when determining whether a person is being deprived of their liberty:.

Best practice skin antisepsis for insertion of peripheral catheters

Notwithstanding concern regarding unnecessary insertion, recent research has highlighted the under-reported risks posed by the placement and management of PIVCs including inadequate technique for skin...

Finding the right leadership style

‘I hope that the need for strong leadership is not misunderstood, by leaders, as a requirement to assert themselves on those whom they lead. Kind, compassionate leadership is the sweetness that...

Inequality: it's life and death

Mental health, society and COVID-19

Oesophageal mucosal tears caused by suboptimal nasogastric tube insertion: a case study

A 78-year-old woman was admitted to the authors' hospital with pneumonia. She had previously experienced a cerebral infarction. Emergency tracheal intubation was performed because her heart rate was...