More patients die if there are fewer nurses available – so the UK must resolve its current shortage.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.
Social distancing can get tougher in the fall and winter. These simple steps can help keep you and your loved ones healthy.
Nurses are uniquely at risk of COVID-19, and are affected by many of the health inequalities that the pandemic has exposed. But no one is listening to them.
School nurses were already overwhelmed, with hundreds of students and staff in their charge. Now, COVID-19 screenings and testing have become their priority.
Using actors can provide nurses with valuable training dealing with a diverse set of patients.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy, University of Southampton
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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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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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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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Lecturer, school of nursing and midwifery, Monash University
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Professor of Rural Nursing; Head of School, Wagga Wagga, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Nursing, Charles Sturt University
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
