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Health Promoting Practitioners

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 26 June 2013 - Categories: Blogs, Home

 As a society we face huge challenges in tackling the health and wellbeing of the population.  We know the impact of lifestyle factors on health, and we understand more about the ‘causes of the causes.' We are learning more about …

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International Nurses' Day 12th May

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 10 May 2013 - Categories: Blogs, Home

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 …

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Promoting nursing careers - public health & school nursing

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 7 March 2013 - Categories: Blogs, Developing a compassionate culture, Home

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 …

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Pauline Watts on Strengthening Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Health Visitor Training

Posted by: Pauline Watts, Posted on: 23 January 2013 - Categories: Blogs, Community nursing, Home

...make further improvements as courses were revalidated so we repeated the poll in September 2012. In the second survey across all HEIs, each of the 32 topics were covered either...

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Seasons Greetings and a big 'thank you' for all your support

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 20 December 2012 - Categories: Home

At the end of the year and as we approach a new one, I have been reflecting on nurses and midwives contribution to 'the public's health': What have we achieved in 2012 and what are the opportunities for 2013?  In …

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Compassion in practice: Our vision and strategy is here!

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 4 December 2012 - Categories: Blogs, Home

Drawing on contributions and input from around 9,000 nurses, midwives care staff and patients, we are delighted to launch Compassion in Practice, the new three-year plan.  Our enduring values for high quality care and good health and wellbeing are set …

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#6Cs - Time to get a piece of the action!

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 12 November 2012 - Categories: Blogs, Home

Thank you for all the helpful comments on the Nursing & Midwifery Vision and Strategy and to those who participated in WeNurses Tweetchat last week.  Those taking part felt that more information to inform tomorrow's Tweetchat in respect of 'action …

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School Nursing, #6Cs & public health

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 3 October 2012 - Categories: Blogs, Home

I am really looking forward to meeting everyone at the School and Public Health Nurses Association (SAPHNA) conference tomorrow.  I  am speaking on the vision for nursing and midwifery - especially from public health nursing perspective - and very  interested …

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