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 London. As Head of Implementation of the national Health Visitor …
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 was ‘Intelligent Kindness’ by John Ballant and Penelope Campling. It …
