The RCN has become the latest high-profile nursing organisation to publically back Independent Nurse's No Tokenism campaign, which aims to champion nurse involvement in clinical commissioning.
As a Macmillan lung cancer nurse specialist, the majority of patients I see present with late and incurable disease (87 per cent), and most will die with one year. Improvements in cancer waiting times...
Last Wednesday, many nurses from across primary and secondary care opted to strike over the government's proposed pension changes, along with countless other public sector workers. Many other nurses...
After a year-long Right Nurse, Right Skills campaign, and months of data collection and analysis, the QNI launched its new report on community nursing at the House of Lords on 21 November. Nursing...
Molly Courtenay helps resolve everyday issues for nurse prescribers
Pay will be frozen, QOF thresholds will increase, but there may still be positives for practice nurses, writes Joe Lepper
The nurse/patient relationship can become one of equals who bring different expertise to the decision-making process, writes Caroline Forrest
Nurses can provide advocacy for patients with an autism spectrum disorder, helping to identify and signpost relevant social care services and related resources, writes Christopher Barber
In his first interview with the nursing press, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham talks about his plans to derail the Health and Social Care Bill and his views on changes to public sector pensions,...
Access to NHS emergency healthcare should be a given. However, the findings of an investigation revealed today by mental health charity Mind, show that crisis care for people with mental health...
Do you know what your patients think of your service? Do you know what they think of you as a nurse? They will have a view.?It is easy to think that people's individual encounters, especially for...
Campaigns are like buses, and in this edition of Independent Nurse, we are highlighting three of them. In addition to Labour's Drop the Bill campaign, outlined in our exclusive interview with shadow...
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