critical care

Newly qualified nurse Jesse Boxall-Steeden wearing PPE in a critical care unit
Nursing Standard

Newly qualified and working in ICU: what I’ve learned amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Newly qualified nurses
07 May 2020
Newly qualified nurse Jesse Boxall-Steeden wearing PPE in a critical care unit
Nursing Standard

Newly qualified and working in ICU: what I’ve learned amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Newly qualified nurses
07 May 2020
Picture of ward sister Jenny McGee and intensive care nurse Luis Pitarma, who say praise for them by prime minister Boris Johnson boosts recognition for the profession.
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: Boris Johnson’s nurses say praise helps raise profession’s profile

News
23 Apr 2020
Patient transfer
Nursing Standard

Patient transfer from the intensive care unit to a general ward

Clinical
19 Apr 2020
Picture shows medics rushing as they push a trolley along a hospital corridor. This article contains excerpts from the diary of an emergency nurse, and are a harrowing and moving account of what it means to be on the front line.
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: diary of an emergency nurse

Analysis
18 Apr 2020
Picture shows medics rushing as they push a trolley along a hospital corridor. This article contains excerpts from the diary of an emergency nurse, and are a harrowing and moving account of what it means to be on the front line.
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: diary of an emergency nurse

Analysis
18 Apr 2020
Redeployment of children's nurses
Nursing Children and Young People

COVID-19: how redeployment is affecting children’s services

Analysis
17 Apr 2020
Consultant thoracic surgeon Joel Dunning is now working shifts as an ICU nurse
Nursing Standard

COVID-19 has taken me from surgeon to ICU nurse

Comment
08 Apr 2020
ICU sign
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: what to expect if you are deployed to a critical care setting

Career advice
07 Apr 2020
Return to work in ICU during COVID-19 pandemic
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: returning to work as an ICU nurse is scary, but it’s a privilege too

My job
30 Mar 2020
Return to work in ICU during COVID-19 pandemic
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: returning to work as an ICU nurse is scary, but it’s a privilege too

My job
30 Mar 2020
Picture shows an army truck on a motorway in Lancashire. The armed forces are being drafted in amid concerns over delays in supplying protective equipment to staff caring for coronavirus patients.
Nursing Standard

COVID-19: army called in to distribute supplies to NHS front-line staff

News
23 Mar 2020
Nursing Standard

Critical care nurses will need our support as COVID-19 cases rise 

Comment
18 March 2020
Nursing Standard

Critical care nurses will need our support as COVID-19 cases rise 

Comment
18 March 2020
Nursing Standard

Patient assessment: do you use your ABCDE?

Comment
25 February 2020
Nursing Standard

Patient assessment: do you use your ABCDE?

Comment
25 February 2020
Nursing Children and Young People

Nursing Children and Young People appoints Carli Whittaker as consultant editor

News
24 February 2020
Nursing Children and Young People

A process for supporting children’s nurses after medication errors

Clinical
20 January 2020

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