191 Ward nurse Blog posts

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

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.

Revalidation has been greeted with a degree of fear amongst nurses. We try to dispel the fears around it with the experience of one nurse who went through Revalidation earlier this year.

After two weeks of demoralising news in the NHS, will nurses finally seriously consider strike action as the only viable option?

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.

From practicing as a nurse, to owning her own consultancy and meeting David Cameron, we interview Sarah Dawkins to gain an insight on the journey nursing has taken her on.

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.

Fatigue. If you've worked night shifts. you've probably experienced it. This is a worry for medical staff, who need to stay alert to care for patients.

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.