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Are agency healthcare practitioners adequately covered to work in private hospitals?
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I would like to share with you my experience of an injury I sustained when working as an agency nurse doing bank shifts in a private hospital and highlight to colleagues the importance of knowing your entitlements when working for an Agency. Please make sure you are adequately covered for injury. -
Content ArticleIn this joint open letter, the UK’s Chief Nursing Officers write about how they are supporting professionals during the pandemic. They encourage the profession to “speak up” if they feel unsafe at work amid the latest surge of COVID-19. The letter also includes information on: supporting to deliver care helping to strengthen the workforce capacity supporting the roll-out of vaccines support for health and wellbeing.
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Content ArticleNursing and midwifery are unarguably stressful endeavours requiring high levels of psychological capital and coping strategies. The impact of the work environment on patient safety outcomes suggests that high nurse/midwife stress may be associated with more adverse patient events. The purpose of this study, published in Nursing and Health Sciences, was to explore the psychological capital of clinical nurses and midwives and identify explanatory factors (including psychological capital, well‐being and health related behaviours) contributing to attitudes to patient safety.The findings suggest that nurse and midwife wellbeing is an important consideration when striving to improve patient safety.
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Content ArticleNurses often express a desire to serve others as a volunteer. They volunteer within their communities and across borders in global settings. While nurses considering participation or serving as a volunteer express altruistic intention, their actions may result in unintended adverse consequences to the host community. The purpose of this position statement is to promote ethically responsible volunteer efforts classified as short-term (six months or less) practice experiences in local and global healthcare and public health.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has put the UK health and care workforce under unprecedented pressure. The workforce had been struggling to cope even before the pandemic took hold. Staff stress, absenteeism, turnover and intentions to quit had reached alarmingly high levels in 2019, with large numbers of nurse and midwife vacancies across the health and care system. The impact of the pandemic on the nursing and midwifery workforce has been unprecedented and will be felt for a long time to come. The crisis has also laid bare and exacerbated longstanding problems faced by nurses and midwives, including inequalities, inadequate working conditions and chronic excessive work pressures. The health and wellbeing of nurses and midwives are essential to the quality of care they can provide for people and communities, affecting their compassion, professionalism and effectiveness. This review, from the Kings Fund, investigated how to transform nurses’ and midwives’ workplaces so that they can thrive and flourish and are better able to provide the compassionate, high-quality care that they wish to offer. Nurse and midwives have three core work needs that must be met to ensure wellbeing and motivation at work, and to minimise workplace stress: autonomy, belonging and contribution. This report sets out eight key recommendations designed to meet these three core work needs. These recommendations focus on: authority, empowerment and influence; justice and fairness; work conditions and working schedules; teamworking; culture and leadership; workload; management and supervision; and learning, education and development.
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Content ArticleThis report from Verita, an independent consultancy, provides an independent account into the disciplinary process regarding Nurse Amin Abdullah in late 2015. It was commissioned by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (‘the trust’) in 2017 to review the process that it followed in dealing with Nurse Abdullah’s case and whether fair and appropriate action was taken
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Content ArticleThis month sees the call from the Nursing Midwifery Council in the UK to ex nurses and students to join the emergency register in response to COVID-19. In this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier reflects on his return to critical care and what he learnt about going from a corporate nursing role back into the direct care setting.r
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to with Alison Schofield, Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist from North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Trust. Alison has worked in Tissue Viability since 2012 and during this time she has studied extensively in leading change in tissue viability, tissue viability management and leg ulcers. Alison discusses her role of a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist and the challenges facing the role in this current world of nursing, the impact of COVID-19 has had on the delivery of community tissue viability services and on people in receipt of the services in care homes and in their own homes.
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to Stacey Ward, Capsule Endoscopy Clinical Nurse Specialist from Barnsley Hospital. Capsule Endoscopy is a non invasive way to look inside a patient. Stacey has pioneered a nurse led endoscopy service that she is deeply proud and passionate about. Her vision and drive for the service and improvement to the patient experience and journey is inspiring.
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks with Kayleigh Evans, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. They talk about nursing homes and the what is has been like during the COVID19 pandemic. Being a registered nurse in a care home/nursing home is an experience like no other and Kayleigh talks about the accountability that comes with the role and the different skills and situations these nurses find them selves in. There's a beautiful account of a good death that is very touching. Kayleigh also talks about the role of a nursing lecturer and we get an insight into the way nursing is being taught during this COVID.
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Content ArticleThis accredited programme, approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, is the first of its kind to be offered in Ireland. It aims to support learners in the development of an appropriate level of knowledge, skill and understanding to enable them to appropriately recognise and respond to domestic abuse. This course will be of particular interest to those individuals whose work may bring them into contact with victims of domestic abuse. Follow the link below to find out more.
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Content ArticleAs research into the long-term impact of COVID-19 continues, this guide from the Royal College of Nursing explores the symptoms and how clinicians can support their patients’ recovery. Topics covered: Post-viral fatigue Fluctuating multi-system symptoms Lasting organ damage Post-intensive care syndrome Mental health Learning and training
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Content ArticleThe rate at which nursing and ambulance staff are leaving the NHS is increasing. The number of nurse vacancies has risen to over 40,000 – a record high. The ambulance service has recorded an 80% per cent increase in staff leaving the profession since 2010. These rates are unequally distributed across professions, specialties and geographical regions, introducing inevitable inequalities in patient care. This Efficiency Research project aims to use this variation to detect underlying contributory factors for better or worse nurse and ambulance staff retention, and determine its effect on patient outcomes. A research team from Staffordshire University will use their experience of applying ‘big data’ analytics and unifying large datasets from three previous studies on the effect of nurse staffing on patient safety. Projects began in 2019 and will run until December 2023.
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Content ArticleClinical governance is an umbrella term. It covers activities that help sustain and improve high standards of patient care. Nursing staff may already be familiar with some of these activities, quality and safety improvement, for example. What is different is the effort to bind these activities together and make them more effective. Healthcare organisations now have a duty to the communities they serve for maintaining the quality and safety of care. Whatever structures, systems and processes an organisation puts in place, it must be able to show evidence that standards are upheld. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) aims to promote a better understanding of clinical governance with this web resource. It wants to help those working within the nursing family to become more involved with local and national quality improvement projects. The resource describes services and support available from the RCN and these match to five key themes of clinical governance. It also shows where to find support from other agencies.
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Content ArticleThe association between higher registered nurses (RN) staffing (educational level and number) and better patient and nurse outcomes is well-documented. This discussion paper from Van den Heede et al. aims to provide an overview of safe staffing policies in various high-income countries to identify reform trends in response to recurring nurse workforce challenges.
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Content ArticleResponding to abnormalities in patients’ vital signs is a fundamental aspect of nursing. However, failure to respond to patient deterioration is common and often leads to adverse patient outcomes. This study from Smith et al., in the journal Resuscitation, aimed to determine the association between registered nurse (RN) and nursing assistant (NA) staffing levels and the failure to respond promptly to patients’ abnormal physiology. The authors found that RN, but not NA, staffing levels influence the rates of failure to respond for patients with the most abnormal vital signs (NEWS values ≥ 7). These findings offer a possible explanation for the increasingly reported association between low RN staffing and an increased risk of patient death during a hospital admission.
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Content ArticleAs a healthcare worker, you could be asked to write a statement for an investigation at work, in response to a complaint, or about an unexpected incident. These are the main points to consider, developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
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Faded rainbows
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
As the colourful rainbows in people's windows are beginning to fade, is the public support for our frontline workers also fading? Has gratitude and thank you's been replaced with frustration and anger from the public? In her latest blog, critical care outreach nurse Claire reflects on the impact this is having on the wellbeing of already exhausted frontline staff. -
Content ArticleMesothelioma UK's Head of Nursing, Lorraine, interviews Clinical Nurse Specialists Anne and Chris from the Meso UK nursing team about their experiences of nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NIHR: COVID-19 research voices
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Thomas Walters, a Senior Research Nurse from London, describes his experience of going back to ICU and how that’s renewed his appreciation for research. Part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) COVID-19 Research Voices series. -
Content ArticleThis article from Ashton et al. outlines how one health system in the United States sought to make antibody testing available to staff as a strategy to decrease anxiety and improve sense making around the crisis.
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Content ArticleThis article from Petriceks and Schwartz, published in Palliative & Supportive Care, describes a four-element approach centered on Goals, Options, Opinions and Documentation that serves as an effective structure for clinicians to have conversations with patients and families to address care management when the path forward is unclear.
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Content ArticleThis YouTube video from nurse, Sophie Pig, aims to give you a better understanding of the 7 rights of medication administration. It is important to remember these 'rights' for every patient you encounter on a drug round.
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Content ArticleGood foot health and care play an important role in improving overall health and wellbeing of the general population. However, the observations of nurses and podiatrists suggest that people experiencing homelessness, particularly rough sleepers, experience worse foot health than the wider population. This guidance, from the Queens Nursing Institute, was developed in partnership with podiatrists with experience of working with people who are homeless, and is intended as a resource for community nurses and allied health professionals. It can be used as a reference by others with an interest in the health of people who are homeless, such as hostel staff, day-centre staff and support workers.
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Content ArticleOut-patient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) is now a routine part of care in the UK following demonstration that it is safe and effective for patients and OPAT is now being actively promoted as part of the UK government’s stewardship initiatives. NHS North Tees and Hartlepool share their experience of redesigning their OPAT services. See the attachment below for details on the project.
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