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19 Jan 2024
The new year has started with some good news
Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and managed to get some much-needed rest and recuperation.
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19 Jan 2024
Bringing me joy
Although I’m counting down the days until I retire, I have to say as I look back over my career, there are some achievements I’m really proud of.
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19 Jan 2024
Fighting for what’s right for nursing
Pat Cullen shares her determination to secure fair pay and safe staffing in the NHS and independent sector
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19 Jan 2024
Bringing festive cheer to Wales’s most vulnerable
Homeless outreach nurse, Matthew Tovey, shows what can be achieved when a community pulls together to bring a little Christmas spirit to the most vulnerable in society.
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18 Jan 2024
January is Love Your Liver awareness month
Tara Rees, lead nurse practitioner for the hepatology service at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2023, explains why better understanding of our liver and taking care of it is so important.
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17 Jan 2024
Why we do not support the National Care Service Bill
Despite agreeing with the aims behind the Bill, Colin Poolman outlines why we cannot support it.
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17 Jan 2024
Happy New year from your South West leadership team
Your regional top team of elected members join your regional director in wishing you a Happy New Year and looking forward to 2024 from their own particular perspectives.
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17 Jan 2024
More nurses in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
This blog highlights the cooperation between the History of Nursing Forum and the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to document the lives and contributions of nurses who made an outstanding contribution to the profession and society.
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15 Jan 2024
Newly qualified nurses in prison - where’s the support?
Prison nursing - the seemingly 'hidden' profession and one that is never spoken about during nurse education IS in fact an option for the newly qualified nurse! But this 'hidden' element can leave you without people to talk to about work - when your university friends are all hospital or community-based, where do you turn?
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10 Jan 2024
The power of sharing perspectives: How a new programme empowered care workers to improve resident care
Specialist Nurse Practitioner, Lola Soloye talks about developing a new workshop that offers care workers valuable experience using blood glucose machines.
