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In the build-up to the introduction of revalidation in April last year, many nurses worrie

13 Mar 2017
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An ambitious international project is aiming to capture nursing students' placement experi

13 Mar 2017
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How big a problem are delayed discharges and what can be done to reduce them? 

09 Mar 2017
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With services reported to be at breaking point, it is clear the NHS is struggling to cope

08 Mar 2017
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How does an NHS trust rocked by a scandal in which patients died turn itself around a

06 Mar 2017
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's reluctance to recommend Kadcy

01 Mar 2017
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As part of Nursing Standard’s series celebrating modern nursing roles in the UK,&nbsp

13 Feb 2017
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Nurses who worked with patients with AIDS in the 1980s
A film has captured nurses' harrowing but inspiring experiences
10 Feb 2017
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The ‘information prescription’ tool, developed by Diabetes UK, alerts clinicians

08 Feb 2017
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Nurses have been largely sidelined in the development of NHS sustainability and trans

07 Feb 2017

A joint initiative between Stonewall and Cardiff University is embedding LGBT awarene

30 Jan 2017
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US health expert supporting new England care models praises successful vanguard site
23 Jan 2017

Lead nurse Victoria Thorne explains how redesigning end of life care provision in north Manchester has improved services for patients and made better use of resources.

18 Jan 2017

Nurse Pam Kehoe explains how a carer’s complaint about the lack of dementia support prompted her trust to launch one of the first Admiral Nursing services in an acute setting. 

17 Jan 2017

Nursing Standard’s series celebrating modern nursing roles in the UK continues with a focus on three nurses in the East Midlands who are achieving outstanding results in managing asthma, reducing falls in hospital, and tracking pressure ulcer incidence.  

13 Jan 2017

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in November stunned the world. As he appoints his top team ahead of his inauguration on January 20, Alison Moore considers what the next four years will mean for nurses and health care in the US.

10 Jan 2017

Kinta Beaver leads the Endometrial Cancer Telephone (ENDCAT) trial team. Here, she explains the benefit of having specialist nurses provide a telephone follow-up service for patients.

06 Jan 2017

Macmillan Cancer Support has identified eight behaviours that can help staff build a positive relationship with patients and improve care. The values-based standard is already achieving results at the troubled Barts Health NHS Trust.

05 Jan 2017

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