Comparisons with the second world war are usually unhelpful – but the crisis changed UK nursing for the better. The pandemic offers a similar chance to rethink nursing is provided.
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Healthcare practitioners face a difficult situation – they have the right to be protected, but are legally required to treat patients.
A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
Anti-Blackness lingers in nursing and continues to limit access for Black folks, especially within nursing schools.
Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics and other times of disaster.
Florence Nightingale, who would have turned 200 today, might be remembered for her work during the Crimean War. But that’s ignoring the 54 years afterwards she spent writing, analysing and agitating.
We need to make sure those brought in to help cope with the pandemic have adequate training to avoid any risks in patient care.
The Lady with the Lamp also did some of her most important work from home.
The NHS workforce reconfiguration so far has been an accountant’s response – designed to save money rather than being based upon actual clinical need.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
Nurses who surround the process of medically assisted dying are an important source of insight into the real conversations our society needs to have about what it’s really like.
Aged care facilities are employing fewer registered and enrolled nurses and more carers, which saves money but results in sub-standard care.
I went to talk to men at football matches about why they don’t want to become nurses – here’s what I found out.
Simulating real-life disaster situations helps students develop physical and emotional resilience and leadership skills.
To the public, nursing is much like teaching work – known to be valuable, but not worthy of much critical attention. Accordingly, nursing is rarely represented in any depth in popular culture.
Nurses will be at the forefront of delivering digital healthcare, but are they prepared?
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.
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.
Patient care is being “rationed” in NHS hospitals as a result of the nursing shortfall.
Women in minimum wage jobs earn 10% less than their male peers. Wages are systematically lower in jobs more commonly held by women.
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Lecturer in Nursing, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Nursing and Health Services Management, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy, University of Southampton
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Professor of Nursing Policy, King's College London
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Professor of Public Health, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, The University of Melbourne
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Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist & Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, school of nursing and midwifery, Monash University
