226 Opinion Blog posts

It’s Death Awareness Week. As nurses we experience life and death as part of our everyday jobs. What can we be doing to learn and train for end of life care?

With an aging population that is set to double in the next 30 years, we look at the services being delivered to keep older people in better health and out of hospital.

The NHS is reeling after a bruising encounter with a 1% pay rise announcement, shortly followed by the prospect of a ban on agency work.

How do NHS emergency departments prepare and plan for major incidents like the one experienced by St Thomas' during Wednesday's Westminster Attack?

Jess is a psychiatric nurse who loves her job and is grateful for the opportunities and experiences it has given her. It’s changed her outlook on life and helped develop her appreciation of others.

Samantha Whittle is an RMN who thinks mental health nursing should still be called Psychiatric Nursing. Here’s her reason why….

To gain an insight to what it's like working the dreaded night shifts, we asked nurses across our social networks what they thought of it - here are their opinions.

The saying goes 'there's no such thing as bad publicity', however with headlines creating negative perceptions of nursing, this isn't always the case.

With many complaints about the amount of paperwork to do, it's been argued that nurses should be putting their time into doing what really matters instead.