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...
The RCN's decision to remove personal indemnity for practice nurses from its member benefits, (covered in this issue's news focus) is no doubt based on sound financial reasoning.
Next year will mark five years since the QNI re-introduced the Queen's Nurse (QN) title, formerly given only to nurses who trained as district nurses at the Institute. Now the title is for any...
The RCN is to be congratulated for publishing guidelines on how nurses should respond if someone asks for assistance to die. In so doing, the college faces up to the reality that some dying patients...
Primary care nurses may have a role in supporting adults with autism spectrum conditions before, during and after diagnosis, writes Christopher Barber
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