International Nurses' Day is a real opportunity to celebrate all the fantastic work that nurses do and to be proud of our profession. I was very pleased when @WeNurses and Britain's Nurses asked me for a nursing story as part …
It's hard to believe it is a year since we published 'Getting it Right for Children, Young People and Families: Maximising the Contribution of the School Nursing Team: Vision and Call to Action' Our commitment to work with children and …
When Compassion in Practice was published in December last year, I knew it was not going to be a document to gather dust. The vision and strategy for nurses, midwives and care staff was crafted by Jane Cummings, chief nursing …
Staying connected to nurses, midwives and care staff is a central part and one of the real privileges of my job. Hearing and acting on the views of people who use our services needs to inform everything we do as …
In my guest blog I want to tell everyone about the really important work that is taking place on Making a Difference to Dementia, through the contribution of every nurse – Not just those working directly with people suffering from …
‘My health visitor was my fourth emergency service’, Rebecca, a mum, told a packed auditorium in the final session of our recent sharing and mobilising conference on 27th February in...
Career choice is one of the most important decisions in anyone’s life; we know career choices amongst young people can be influenced by so many factors including life experiences, family and peers. Within nursing we know that we need the …
For increasing numbers of people, health and wellbeing is no longer a sub-conscious state requiring episodic contact with health services to fix something that is broken. Instead, it is a matter of active and ongoing – often lifelong – intervention …
To ensure that the health and social care systems are prepared for the changing health needs of people with learning disabilities the four home countries’ government lead nurses initiated a review into learning disabilities nursing. ‘Strengthening the commitment: the report …
Last year I read a couple of great books that really made me think and focussed my mind on new ways of looking at the world. One of those books...
