Rethinking clinical placements

Well-funded prevention is indeed better than cure

Professionalising the humour out of nursing students

The importance of infection control in tackling the antimicrobial resistance crisis

The UK's 20-year vision for antimicrobial resistance (Department of Health and Social care (DHSC) 2019a) identifies that improved antimicrobial stewardship programmes are an essential component of the...

Electronic records, confidentiality and data security: the nurse's responsibility

Registered nurses have a professional duty to maintain a patient's confidence and to maintain data security by collecting, treating and storing all data appropriately (Nursing and Midwifery Council...

Will extra training improve care of service users with learning disabilities or autism?

Throughout history, the way society has treated people with learning disabilities and autism has not always been equitable (Open University, 2019). Throughout most of the 19th century people did not...

Trends in NHS complaint handling: the toxic cocktail still exists

Clwyd and Hart (2013), in their independent review, discussed evidence given to them by the PHSO, which characterised well the central problems facing the NHS in the way it handles complaints. The...

A clinical view on health and safety

‘Connors' death whilst under our care was entirely preventable, and today we have pleaded guilty to the charges brought against the Trust by the HSE, Connor's loss continues to have a devastating...

From staff nurse to nurse consultant

Continuing professional development, keeping updated, attending a course, writing an assignment, being mentored by a specialist practitioner are all straightforward, logical and, if we are honest with...

Respecting clinical skills

‘Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell and know that by practice alone you can become expert.’ .

A matter of confidentiality

Government plans to reduce death by suicide in England

With 4500 suicides each year in England, this equates approximately to one person dying every 2 hours as a result of suicide. When someone is so emotionally troubled as to take their own life, the...