Around 60% of aged care residents require more than four hours of care per day.
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The biggest system failure in aged care is staffing. We don’t need to wait until the royal commission is over to fix it – this can be done now.
Children are especially vulnerable to sex traffickers.
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Human trafficking victims can be hidden in plain sight, as one hospital found. That can lead health professionals and the public to miss clues to their plight. But education can change that.
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Patient care is being “rationed” in NHS hospitals as a result of the nursing shortfall.
Wages are low among hospitality workers, who are disproportionately female.
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Women in minimum wage jobs earn 10% less than their male peers. Wages are systematically lower in jobs more commonly held by women.
While most Canadian nurses still use some paper charting systems, robots are being developed to complete intimate nursing tasks. Nurses need to embrace technological change, to direct their own future.
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Will nurses eventually be replaced by robots? Nurses themselves need to engage with the ongoing technological revolution in healthcare - to shape the future of the profession.
Some nurses report being reduced to tears on a daily basis.
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Shortages negatively affecting ability to care for patients
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Men represent a virtually untapped resource that could help relieve the NHS nursing crisis
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Nursing students are passing placements when they shouldn’t be.
Verbal abuse can result in significant psychological trauma for nurses.
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Violence against nurses in hospitals is increasing. Yet incidents remain under-reported and protections are not enough to ensure their safety, as well as that of their patients.
San Quinten State Prison lethal injection room.
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In the US, nurses take part in executions by lethal injection. They justify their role by saying it makes executions ‘safer’.
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Nursing apprenticeships didn’t work out the first time and now they’re back, and pose a risk to patients.
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Nursing is more than just a caring profession, it is also a science.
Almost one-third (32%) of nurses and midwives are considering moving on.
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Nurses and midwives are among society’s most highly valued professionals. But a disturbing national picture is emerging of escalating levels of over-work and burnout.
Nurses will have to apply for a student loan.
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More people will go into nursing after bursaries are scrapped, but fewer than the NHS needs.
Who cares wins – or do they?
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The raw ingredients that courses recruiting student nurses should look for are still a matter of debate.
Looking for a more personal experience.
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One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Not everyone thinks so despite their value in plugging a huge workforce gap.
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There aren’t enough nurses and predicted shortfalls but the government is determined to cut opportunities for foreign nurses.
Frontline nurses say their views on nursing policy is often overlooked because policymakers do not recognise the importance of their clinical experience.
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There are several benefits of nurses providing input in policymaking processes. In South Africa, though, there are several barriers that prevent this.
Valuable resource.
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Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
Nursing is under pressure.
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More nurses and higher education levels - not a change in values - are needed if nursing in Britain is to regain its world-leading status.