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Practice
Training to promote multidisciplinary working
Multiprofessional working is central to good care and Health Education England has introduced a programme to make it central to all healthcare interventions
How interprofessional learning improves care
Students from different disciplines who learnt together developed interpersonal and teamwork skills and gained knowledge of how other professionals work
Sustaining mentorship for student nurses
Many of the challenges facing student nurse educators lie in the delivery of mentorship
Improving learning with personal response systems
The use of personal response systems in lectures can increase students’ understanding and enable lecturers to gather instant feedback.
Recommendations on student nurse training
The Francis report suggests changes to pre-registration training to improve skills and to ensure students have the requisite attributes
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Improving continence education for nurses
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Opioids in palliative care: the NICE guidance
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Benefits of cognitive stimulation for people with dementia
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Managing upper gastrointestinal acute bleeding
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Measuring body temperature
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Better communication within care home services
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A reading group in acute mental healthcare
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A PAD service led by nurses and podiatrists
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Why do nurses sometimes ask the wrong questions?
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Dementia awareness starts in school
News
New route into nursing for healthcare support staff
Healthcare assistants are to be offered a route into nursing through part-time degrees, under plans revealed by Health Education England.
NHS to face chronic nurse shortage by 2016
The NHS will experience a chronic shortage of nurses within the next three years as demand for services continues to pile on pressure.
Nurse prescribing pioneer to head nursing school
The nursing and midwifery school at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University has appointed a new head.
Leading nursing and wound care researcher becomes dame
A leading nursing and wound care researcher has been made a dame in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Best and worst nursing courses revealed
The best and worst nursing courses in the UK have been revealed in a new league table of higher education providers.
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'Worryingly' low numbers of district nurses being trained
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Dutch students on placement with private hospital
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RCGP sets competency levels for practice nurses
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Winners of this year's Student Nursing Times Awards unveiled
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Brighton nurses to train Zambian colleagues in paediatrics
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Guy's and St Thomas' embarking on major nurse recruitment drive
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Charity condemns HCA year for student nurses
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Trainee nurse drop-outs 'waste' £100m
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Willis: Give patients access to HCA training records
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Awards launched for members of RCN Wales
Nursingtimes.net Archive
Thousands of articles to help you keep your nursing practice up to date
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Meaning of spiritual care: Iranian nurses' experiences.
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Evaluation of an Online Orientation Program for New Healthcare Employees.
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Educating Clinicians on New Elements Incorporated Into the Electronic Health Record: Theories, Evidence, and One Educational Project.
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Efficacy of the End-of-Life Nursing Care Continuing Education Program for Nurses in General Wards in Japan.
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Disaster content in Australian tertiary postgraduate emergency nursing courses: A survey.
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Australasian emergency nurses' willingness to attend work in a disaster: A survey.
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Mindfulness in nursing: an evolutionary concept analysis.
Opinion
We asked: 'What makes a good nursing course?'
Our student nurse twitter community shared their thoughts on what’s important when choosing a nursing course. Read the transcript here
Favourites from the archive
Skills to ensure success in mentoring and other workplace learning approaches
Workplace learning can be supported using various approaches but for this to be effective it is crucial that those supporting learners have the right skills
