141 Opinion Blog posts

For nurses, Christmas is put on hold. The impending winter crisis means nurses will be put under strain as they face the challenges that the new year brings.

Nursing has become a heavily paperwork and deadline orientated job. With a lack of contact with patients and a lack of sufficient staff numbers on wards we’re battling to care correctly.

There was a time, a whole lifetime ago, when I loved a good medical drama.

Get any group of health professionals together and it doesn’t take long before they start talking shop and sharing war stories.

For many of us Christmas is a well earned break. But for Nurses, the chaos continues whilst the festive period is put on hold.

Find out what it's like working with the Therapeutic Staffing Model, and how it not only benefits patients, but Mental Health Nurses too.

With the threat of a flu epidemic, this post illustrates the importance of Nurses, and healthcare professionals, receiving their vaccine.

Would you put your elderly relatives into care? Kathryn Stock details her anguish when making this decision.

One nurse takes a personal view and tries to understand why being a patient is worse for nurses than other people, and how we can use the experience to benefit our own patients in our future care.