Tackling racial bias in NHS workplaces

Bennett et al (2016) highlighted research across the UK showing that NHS staff from BME backgrounds often experience inequality, discrimination and prejudice in the workplace. Indeed, they are...

Patient safety in the NHS: opening the door to change

The consultation paper has some thoughtful provisions. Three principles underpin the strategy: a just culture; openness and transparency; and continuous improvement..

The Royal College of Nursing's quest to improve recruitment

Shortages of trained nurses can be traced back to the introduction of nurse registration. When the first elections to the General Nursing Council (GNC) (the forerunner to today's Nursing and Midwifery...

Pick ‘n’ mix teaching: a solution to learner engagement?

I developed the ‘pick ‘n’ mix teaching’ sessions in response to a request for work-based teaching from one of our medical wards. This particular clinical area had identified various clinical incidents...

When a person with dementia is leaving hospital

Planning the discharge should start on admission and involve the multidisciplinary team, the family and carer and, importantly, the person themselves (NHSES, 2011). The key aims of discharge planning...

School nurses: undervalued, underfunded and overstretched

‘School nurses across the UK … were struggling with heavy workloads and the majority of their time was eaten away by safeguarding and administration’ .

From staff nurse to nurse consultant: Continuing professional development part 9: support and finance

There are compulsory areas of CPD that have been identified by employers as essential; these will be funded by employing organisations and staff will normally be paid to attend study days or undertake...

Support for present and future leaders

‘The conditions in which leaders operate are stressful and difficult, with great responsibility and the highest stakes. Over time, this has led to a negative working culture in which both bullying...

The RCN: an organisation with a memory?

Should I have helped?

Revalidation evaluated

Using compression garments in the management of lymphoedema

In the management of lymphoedema compression therapy can be in the form of compression bandages, compression garments or adjustable inelastic wraps. Compression bandages are generally used to reduce...