All Nursing articles – Page 104
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In Brief: Former nurse Gloria Justice
Former nurse Gloria Justice, whose career ended when she injured her back lifting a patient at Newcastle's Walkergate Hospital eight years ago, has been awarded £90,000. Ms Justice claimed she had not been trained in safe lifting techniques.
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In Brief: Nurse Sylvia Sparrow in court
Nurse Sylvia Sparrow is taking St Andrews Homes to court, claiming that smoking by elderly patients in a nursing home where she formerly worked caused her breathing difficulties. It is the first passive smoking case in a British court, opening at the High Court in Manchester this week.
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In Brief: Number of registered nursing homes rise
The number of registered nursing homes in England rose by 4 per cent last year to 5,560, according to figures from the Department of Health. But the percentage of beds occupied fell from 81 per cent to 79 per cent.
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Hospital urges army to provide nurse back-up
Hospital managers are calling on the army to help prevent scores of operations being cancelled.
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Nurses jeer as Dobson says sorry for staged pay award
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week apologised for staging the nurses' pay award, but faced boos and jeers from angry delegates at the Royal College of Nursing congress.
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In Brief: Royal College of Nursing
A trust has been urged to improve night staffing levels after a nurse was threatened with a knife by a disturbed patient. A Cumbrian spokesperson for the Royal College of Nursing said North Lakeland Healthcare trust should improve staffing at Penrith New Hospital after an assault on nurse Lynn Morris.
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In Brief: Guidance for nurses
Guidance for nurses working with mental health and learning disability patients has been produced for the first time by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. It tackles issues such as consent, advocacy, relationships and risk management.
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Anger at nurse tender plan
A health authority was accused last week of demoralising staff and potentially fragmenting services by joining with GPs to put community nursing out to tender.
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UKCC demands tougher line on imposter nurses
Nursing's regulatory body is calling for more punitive legal sanctions against imposters who pose as qualified nurses.
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In Brief: Central Council for Nursing
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is to launch a study into the demands placed on nurses in the prison and secure mental health services .
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Memories of a nurse
The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.
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NURSES ARE TELLING US WHY THE GOING IS TOUGH
Two factors were missing from the otherwise excellent review of the current and predicted nursing shortage ('When the going gets tough', pages 28-31, 26 February).
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The image of nursing
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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Nurses slam HA advertisement
A health authority has been accused of misleading the public by placing a 'good news' advertisement in local papers.
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'Error' fear nurses win more staff
A trust is to improve night staffing levels after nurses warned that they were so overworked they feared making a 'fatal error'.
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Nurses' fears for patient safet y - inquiry ordered
Hospital managers have launched an inquiry after nurses claimed they were so overworked that patient safety was at risk.
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AN EX-NURSE WHO THINKS IT'S TIME TO TAKE A SWING AT CHIEF EXECUTIVES
A question has been bothering me, an ex-nurse, for some time. In these days of managerial cuts and general control on bureaucracy, what is the purpose of chief executives? They cost on average pounds70,000-pounds80,000 and additionally require the support of one, normally two, secretaries. So the cost of a chief ...
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Nursing regulations 'must protect the public'
Radical suggestions for changing the way in which nurses, midwives and health visitors are regulated have been set out in a report commissioned by the four UK health departments.