Previous caring experience does not make students better nurses, a new study suggests. Researchers said nursing students with care experience are less likely to perform better academically and clinically than
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A third of nurses have been unable to fulfil their patients’ dying wishes because they do not have enough time, according to a survey. Many healthcare workers are “profoundly troubled”
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Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is introducing a new nursing structure to their care plan which will ensure the charity have the right skills, resources and expertise to support and
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Following the All Wales Nurses Conference held in Llandudno on September 17 a task force has been set up to tackle the issue of nurse shortages in social care settings
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Midwives in England have voted to go on strike in a bitter dispute with the Government over pay. Members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) backed walkouts by 82%,
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Scotland’s Chief Nursing Officer, Ros Moore, will step down from her role at the end of the year, it was announced yesterday. Appointed to the role in 2009, Ros Moore
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Nurses and midwives who completed their training outside Europe are to face new assessments of their eligibility to work in the UK, it was announced today. The Nursing and Midwifery
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A senior care home nurse is to face a Nursing and Midwifery Council(NMC) conduct and competence committee relating the death of an elderly woman who died two days after being
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) plan to increase its registration fee by 20 per cent has been branded as ‘grotesque’. Unite, which represents about 25,000 nurses and community nurses
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A hospital worker who lost his job after reports he posed for pictures wearing a patient’s underwear will not face criminal charges. James John Turner, a 21-year-old nursing auxiliary in
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