Being a newly qualified nurse on the frontline Daniella Mazurkiewicz reflects on how she adapted to working solo as a preceptorship homecare nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic to help patients continue with essential therapies BAME health matters – a lesson from COVID There is a trend of drawing premature conclusions from COVID data, but the figures on BAME deaths are unambiguous. Analysis from the ONS has shown that patients from BAME groups are twice as likely to die from the virus as white ones. Failing the coronavirus test Public goodwill, and sympathy after his own brush with COVID, is giving way to a disquiet that the Prime Minister is not really engaged with a national emergency 1 comment Recognising the vital contribution of practice nurses Debbie Brown, editor-in-chief of Practice Nursing, brings together messages of support from nursing leaders for the work being done during the COVID-19 crisis Supporting End of Life Care during the COVID-19 crisis Laureen Hemming on what the COVID-19 crisis can teach us on good end-of-life care 1 comment The testing deficit at the heart of the COVID-19 outbreak Linda Nazarko takes stock of what we know of COVID-19 so far, and what we could be doing better 'Some nurses have died' Some nurses have died. They have names, faces, people who loved them. How is COVID-19 affecting you? Are you getting the support you need from employers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Debbie Brown, Editor-in-Chief of our sibling title Practice Nursing, wants to hear from primary care nurses about their experiences 1 comment Life on the frontline: what it’s like to be a newly qualified GP nurse during COVID-19 Claire Carmichael, who graduated from Birmingham City University, is a newly qualified nurse working in the community as a GP nurse. In recognition of healthcare professionals around the world on World Health Day (7 April), Claire shares what it’s like to be a frontline nurse during the coronavirus outbreak… The future of education for practice nurses The education of nurses in general practice is key to the sector’s future 1 comment Back in the Hunt: what Jeremy did next How will the former health secretary fare as the new chair of the Health Select Committee? Welcoming in the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, it’s time to celebrate our profession The responsibility Boris Johnson can’t duck ?So the least wanted and oddest election of my lifetime is over, and the result has been a fairly emphatic victory for blond ambition. And just as we predicted in November’s IN, the NHS was invoked in various unedifying ways during the campaign GP home visits – a necessity, not an indulgence What a sad indictment it is of our society when GPs say they no longer have the capacity to offer care to the most vulnerable, those who are housebound and elderly. 1 comment Sex and disability: The conversation we urgently need to have We want to be part of normalising the conversations around sex and disability, and this also means better supporting professionals who work young people and their diverse needs. Help the NMC shape nursing’s future The NMC wants to play a leading role in driving up standards and enabling better, safer care, writes Andrea Sutcliffe The needle and the damage done As deaths from drug overdoses rocket, Mike Shallcross asks if it's time for a bolder approach to this public health emergency 1 comment The modern scandal of menstrual education in our schools Ian Peate explains why sex education is essential for school children Can Jeremy make it to Number Ten? A former health secretary may become our prime minister. It would be the smart choice, argues Mike Shallcross Thinking again about assisted dying This week Parliament entered the debate on assisted dying, with many MPs arguing for a change in the current law. IN Editor Mike Shallcross explains why he believes it's time for a rethink Dental care – a fundamental human right? Good oral health should be seen as a fundamental human right; it is inseparable from a person’s general health and wellbeing. Nurses are ideally placed in making every contact count, particularly with regards to oral health, argues Ian Peate A new model for children's services Chris Hanvey calls for a new model of 'integrated and collaborative services" to fulfil society's duty of care for children The joined-up future of primary care services Crystal Oldman explains the thinking behind the QNI and the RCN's new report Outstanding Models of District Nursing Roald Dahl Nurses: making a difference and measuring it Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity is working in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University on an evaluation project to demonstrate the value and impact of Roald Dahl Specialist Children’s Nurse posts. Project manager Candice Pellet gives us a progress report 21st century healthcare, 19th century access Why, in this high-tech era, are people queueing in the rain for a GP appointment? 1 comment
Being a newly qualified nurse on the frontline Daniella Mazurkiewicz reflects on how she adapted to working solo as a preceptorship homecare nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic to help patients continue with essential therapies
BAME health matters – a lesson from COVID There is a trend of drawing premature conclusions from COVID data, but the figures on BAME deaths are unambiguous. Analysis from the ONS has shown that patients from BAME groups are twice as likely to die from the virus as white ones.
Failing the coronavirus test Public goodwill, and sympathy after his own brush with COVID, is giving way to a disquiet that the Prime Minister is not really engaged with a national emergency 1 comment
Recognising the vital contribution of practice nurses Debbie Brown, editor-in-chief of Practice Nursing, brings together messages of support from nursing leaders for the work being done during the COVID-19 crisis
Supporting End of Life Care during the COVID-19 crisis Laureen Hemming on what the COVID-19 crisis can teach us on good end-of-life care 1 comment
The testing deficit at the heart of the COVID-19 outbreak Linda Nazarko takes stock of what we know of COVID-19 so far, and what we could be doing better
How is COVID-19 affecting you? Are you getting the support you need from employers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Debbie Brown, Editor-in-Chief of our sibling title Practice Nursing, wants to hear from primary care nurses about their experiences 1 comment
Life on the frontline: what it’s like to be a newly qualified GP nurse during COVID-19 Claire Carmichael, who graduated from Birmingham City University, is a newly qualified nurse working in the community as a GP nurse. In recognition of healthcare professionals around the world on World Health Day (7 April), Claire shares what it’s like to be a frontline nurse during the coronavirus outbreak…
The future of education for practice nurses The education of nurses in general practice is key to the sector’s future 1 comment
Back in the Hunt: what Jeremy did next How will the former health secretary fare as the new chair of the Health Select Committee?
Welcoming in the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, it’s time to celebrate our profession
The responsibility Boris Johnson can’t duck ?So the least wanted and oddest election of my lifetime is over, and the result has been a fairly emphatic victory for blond ambition. And just as we predicted in November’s IN, the NHS was invoked in various unedifying ways during the campaign
GP home visits – a necessity, not an indulgence What a sad indictment it is of our society when GPs say they no longer have the capacity to offer care to the most vulnerable, those who are housebound and elderly. 1 comment
Sex and disability: The conversation we urgently need to have We want to be part of normalising the conversations around sex and disability, and this also means better supporting professionals who work young people and their diverse needs.
Help the NMC shape nursing’s future The NMC wants to play a leading role in driving up standards and enabling better, safer care, writes Andrea Sutcliffe
The needle and the damage done As deaths from drug overdoses rocket, Mike Shallcross asks if it's time for a bolder approach to this public health emergency 1 comment
The modern scandal of menstrual education in our schools Ian Peate explains why sex education is essential for school children
Can Jeremy make it to Number Ten? A former health secretary may become our prime minister. It would be the smart choice, argues Mike Shallcross
Thinking again about assisted dying This week Parliament entered the debate on assisted dying, with many MPs arguing for a change in the current law. IN Editor Mike Shallcross explains why he believes it's time for a rethink
Dental care – a fundamental human right? Good oral health should be seen as a fundamental human right; it is inseparable from a person’s general health and wellbeing. Nurses are ideally placed in making every contact count, particularly with regards to oral health, argues Ian Peate
A new model for children's services Chris Hanvey calls for a new model of 'integrated and collaborative services" to fulfil society's duty of care for children
The joined-up future of primary care services Crystal Oldman explains the thinking behind the QNI and the RCN's new report Outstanding Models of District Nursing
Roald Dahl Nurses: making a difference and measuring it Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity is working in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University on an evaluation project to demonstrate the value and impact of Roald Dahl Specialist Children’s Nurse posts. Project manager Candice Pellet gives us a progress report
21st century healthcare, 19th century access Why, in this high-tech era, are people queueing in the rain for a GP appointment? 1 comment