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Learning disability nursing at a crucial tipping point: the challenge for registered learning disability nurses is to amplify ‘in profession’ confidence to strategic decision-making level

We need confidence to reimagine learning disability nursing

The profession is at a crucial tipping point, but we can promote our outcome-driven value

27 Jan 2025
Regulation of NHS managers: an NHS manager speaks to a staff member at a hospital nurses station

NHS misconduct: it’s time the rules for staff and managers aligned

The proposal for a regulating body that holds managers to account is a step forward

21 Jan 2025
New NHS national uniforms in different colourways are designed to better distinguish nursing and other occupational groups 

‘Smart scrubs’: will your new work wardrobe help you do your job in comfort?

New NHS uniform has its critics, but perhaps it’s not such a bad idea

03 Dec 2024
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Learning disability nurse and health visitor Lauretta Ofulue appears in one of Dance Syndrome’s videos, which seek to encourage more people to join the profession

Personal videos aim to encourage more people to become learning disability nurses

Videos include personal stories shared by learning disability nurses about their motivations

27 Nov 2024
A student nurse cares for an injured older patient. Placements help students build confidence and experience through hands-on care

Practice makes perfect: would reducing clinical placement hours be a mistake?

Placement hours are a big commitment, but they also build skills and confidence

19 Nov 2024
Newly qualified nurses are having to seek employment elsewhere to make ends meet, such as in coffee shops or in retail. Picture shows a female barista making coffee

New nurses working in Starbucks: is this still a career for life?

We have new registrants unable to get NHS jobs, despite chronic nurse shortages

15 Oct 2024
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Lord Darzi’s investigation of the state of the NHS in England highlights the decline in numbers of learning disability nurses and health inequalities

Darzi report shows services for people with learning disabilities ‘falling far short’

Investigation highlights decline in learning disability nurse numbers and health inequalities

26 Sep 2024
Patients can be misled when the word ‘nurse’ is part of the title of a non-registered role

‘Nurse’ title for unregistered roles is a dangerous deception and holds us in contempt

Healthcare support staff are invaluable, but inflated titles do them no favours either

17 Sep 2024
Nurse retention: steep rise in newly registered nurses quitting profession means action is needed to boost morale and reduce burnout

Nurse burnout busters: my staff retention to-do list for managers and nursing employers

Here’s how to give newly registered nurses – and all nurses – the workplaces they deserve

13 Aug 2024
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A learning disability liaison nurse talks to an older person in a hospital bed

Why tackling learning disability health inequalities must be a government priority

Gross inequalities for people with learning disabilities and/or autism are a national shame

26 Jul 2024
Smiling nurse helps patient get up from bed, showing how ward nurse intervention is important in preventing inpatient falls

Staggered break times turns out to be a winning falls-prevention strategy for inpatients

How a hospital team has all-but eliminated falls in a simple but systematic way

23 Jul 2024
Image shows a member of healthcare staff facing an open cupboard and holding a plastic bottle of medication

Paracetamol theft: does the punishment fit the crime?

Why I find it hard to swallow nurse’s six-month suspension for taking ward painkillers

02 Jul 2024
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Don’t overlook the menopause experiences of women with learning disabilities

Discussions about the menopause are more mainstream but not for everyone
06 Jun 2024

DNACPR tragedy will prey on the consciences of nurses involved, but they are all of us

Patient’s death tells us what we already know, but will it change anything?
14 May 2024
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How to get informed consent right

Experts with lived  experience of having a learning disability offer their advice
03 Apr 2024

Unsocial shifts and rotas: what’s your breaking point?

Nurses are flexible but there has to be give and take if the NHS is to boost retention
19 Mar 2024

Our professional inferiority complex: why you’re never ‘just’ a nurse

Safety-critical care is what we do, yet some of us can’t resist the urge to downplay
20 Feb 2024
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Is it time to retire the title learning disability nurse?

Changing the name could make it more contemporary and reflect changing times
05 Feb 2024

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