Clinical skills, human touch

From staff nurse to nurse consultant Continuing professional development part 11: using reflection

Take a few moments to reflect on where you are in your professional career. How long have you been in your current role? What have you learnt? What are your clinical strengths? What are your...

Understanding the patient journey: a mechanism to reduce staff burnout?

The aim of this quality improvement (QI) initiative was to understand the impact, if any, of a non-clinical forum on critical care survivors and the critical care multidisciplinary team..

Improving support systems to safeguard the mental health of NHS nurses

Many nurses and other health professionals work in emotionally challenging situations, providing optimum care to service users day to day. It is interesting to note that the founder of modern nursing,...

Patient advocacy: a skill students can learn and practise before qualification

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...