Matthew McKew
Matthew McKew
More nurses and midwives are leaving the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register than are joining it, new figures reveal.
Chris Longhurst
Chris Longhurst
Protests over plans to drastically cut the post-registration nurse training budget in Northern Ireland appear to have led to a partial victory.
Blood test success [0.03%]
成功的血液检测
Karin Crimmins
Karin Crimmins
Your patient view article 'Inspiring nurse advised me to set my anxieties aside to help my daughter' (28 June) was fantastic. It prompted me to ensure my daughter's annual blood tests went smoothly too.
Showing the strain [0.03%]
透支人生
Leanne Basra
Leanne Basra
I love BBC2's Hospital documentary because it offers a great insight to the running of a hospital and issues such as bed management, something ward nurses often don't see.
Amy Jones
Amy Jones
How about training nursing students to do intravenous medication, cannulation and bloods? It would be far more useful for our everyday roles as newly qualified nurses.
Prescribing pressure [0.03%]
施压处方药
Donna Bagheera Nicholson
Donna Bagheera Nicholson
Newly qualified nurses may be able to undertake training to prescribe under Nursing and Midwifery Council proposals (news, 21 June). As a newly qualified nurse, there is so much to learn without having the stress of prescribing. However, fo...
Putting a price on care [0.03%]
护理工作的价值
James Buchan
James Buchan
As a relatively expensive staffing solution, agency nursing is often in the spotlight in the cost-conscious NHS.
Hard to shift [0.03%]
难以摆脱的影响
Susie Mints Carty
Susie Mints Carty
I've put on about two stone since becoming a nursing student, simply because of shift patterns ('Let's talk about your weight...', features, 21 June).
Marc Cornock
Marc Cornock
There have been two separate cases recently of nurses in care homes being reprimanded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for not attempting to resuscitate patients they thought had died.
Scottish Government plans to increase nursing numbers raise more questions than answers, RCN Scotland says.