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Nursing to become graduate entry
(BBC 12/11/2009)
All new nurses in England from 2013 will have to spend at least three years being trained to degree level, the Department of Health has announced. The move will help nurses meet the increasingly complex needs of patients more safely and effectively, it said. The extra one or two years of training needed for nurses to obtain a degree will include a focus on them gaining experience in community health teams. The move follows a recommendation from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Nurses call for safer staffing
(BBC 19/10/2009)
Four out of 10 nurses say staff shortages compromise patient care at least once a week, according to the Royal College of Nurses (RCN). An RCN manifesto to all the political parties says NHS employers must assure themselves they have safe staff levels. The RCN, whose survey covers the views of 9,000 nurses, is warning against job cuts due to possible reduced funding. NHS trusts said managers were increasingly examining their workforces to best use the skills of their staff.
Panorama nurse can return to work
(BBC 12/10/2009)
A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work. The High Court approved a settlement between Margaret Haywood and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The striking-off order imposed in April this year will be replaced with a one-year caution, which means she can now work as a nurse. Ms Haywood filmed at the Royal Sussex Hospital for a BBC Panorama programme.
School nurses 'at breaking point'
(BBC 12/09/2009)
School nurses have to provide care for an average of 2,590 pupils, the Royal College of Nursing says. An RCN survey of 1,600 school nurses suggests two-thirds feel overstretched and feel they are not given support. The RCN says government targets to place a school nurse in every secondary school and cluster of primary schools by next year are unlikely to be met. But the government said good progress has been made in increasing the numbers of school nurses.
Nurses need to clean up their act
(Telegraph 29/08/2009)
The nurse's oncespotless image has been tainted by recent revelations of neglect says Libby Purves. Coming from a brisk, well-paid, thoroughly privatised life, I fell in love with the profession, awed by the nurses' chirpy willingness to mop, wipe, ease, make the bed comfortable and respond kindly to daft questions and feeble nocturnal buzzings of the bedside bell.
Let nurses get back to nursing
(Telegraph 28/08/2009)
I walked down the corridor towards the ward. A nurse was sitting at the nurses' station, reading. "Did you hear something?" I asked. "Like someone calling out?" She looked up from her magazine and shrugged. I heard it again, quite loud: "Please help, someone help." And more scraping sounds. The nurse remained seated. "I'm on my break," she said, not bothering to look up this time. I walked on to the ward where I found an old lady lying on the floor.
Nurses get pedometers to check efficiency of wards
(The Scotsman 27/07/2009)
NURSES have been issued with devices measuring the distances they walk on Scottish wards as part of a pilot scheme to crack down on hospital inefficiency, it was announced today. The initiative, at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, aims to scrutinise the way wards are organised and free up more time for staff to care for patients. Nurses across 23 wards in the health board have already been issued with pedometers.
Nursing shortage hits Lothian with almost 400 jobs unfilled
(The Scotsman 17/07/2009)
LOTHIAN has a higher rate of nursing vacancies than any other mainland health board. Official figures have shown that there were 372 nursing and midwifery roles unfilled across the area last year, making up around 3.8 per cent of the workforce. This was considerably higher than the national average of 2.3 per cent, and was surpassed only by tiny health boards in the Western Isles and Shetland.In addition, in Lothian, around 6 per cent of the workforce is made up of agency and bank nurses.
Nurse recruitment crisis warning
(BBC 12/05/2009)
The NHS is facing a nursing recruitment crisis unless it does more to attract school leavers into the profession, union leaders say. The Royal College of Nursing says over the next decade 200,000 nurses will retire - a third of the total number. It said school leavers were snubbing nursing as a career, and called on ministers to run campaigns in schools to tackle the problem. The government admitted more should be done to promote nursing.
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