Nursing Standard

02/03/2025

Managing obesity: the pros and cons of weight-loss jabs

The NHS selectively offers weight-loss injections to tackle increasing obesity.

Find out who is eligible and what the positive and negative effects of their use are.

https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/analysis/managing-obesity-pros-and-cons-of-weight-loss-jabs-211441

02/03/2025

‘What would have helped, each time, was a debrief to discuss what we did correctly and how our practice could have been improved’

Jane Bates discusses why regular CPR training and debriefing is key to nursing >

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to keep nurses’ skills and knowledge up to date is essential because performing basic life support can be a rare and frightening event. Given a sharp rise in CPR-related referrals to the NMC, debrief conversations are essential too for nurse well-being and pa...

01/03/2025

Identifying early signs of clinical deterioration: how to use NEWS2 and ABCDE assessment

This article describes how nurses can use early warning scores and a structured patient assessment to facilitate the timely escalation of patient care.

Using the NEWS2 and ABCDE assessment to identify early signs of clinical deterioration

01/03/2025

12-hour nursing shifts: are they helpful or harmful to staff?

Find out more about the pros and cons of long shifts, plus tips on how to help you cope physically.

https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/analysis/12-hour-nursing-shifts-are-they-helpful-or-harmful-to-staff-211461

28/02/2025

Suspected sepsis: patient assessment and management in the emergency department

This article discusses the pathophysiology of sepsis and how emergency nurses should assess and manage with suspected sepsis.

Suspected sepsis: patient assessment and management in the emergency department

27/02/2025

Are you a nurse observing Ramadan?

How do you keep your energy up on shift?

Click here for tips on how to fast while in clinical practice, including how managers can support staff >

Nurses, a nursing student and a dietitian share tips on fasting while in clinical practice. Plus how managers and colleagues can support staff observing Ramadan

27/02/2025

Undercover nurses are running 'covert' hand hygiene audits

An NHS trust is using plain clothes infection prevention nurses for secret audits to assess and improve hand hygiene standards in compliance with WHO guidelines

An NHS trust is using undercover nurses for covert hand hygiene audits to improve standards. These audits, conducted twice yearly, assess compliance with World Health Organization guidelines and address inaccuracies in self-audits. The latest results showed the hospitals’ hand hygiene performance ...

27/02/2025

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26/02/2025

Community nursing: how to start as a newly registered nurse

Find out more about the variety of roles in district and community nursing, as well as a dedicated career pathway that is helping nursing students to explore their options.

Newly registered nurses can go straight into community roles after completing their nursing studies, without needing to gain hospital experience first – though this is often not clearly explained to students. A dedicated community nursing career pathway at Liverpool John Moores University and Mers...

26/02/2025

A hospital has been told to urgently improve care of deteriorating patients in its emergency department after a patient died having waited more than 13 hours to be transferred to intensive care, despite escalations from nursing staff.

Coroner finds that Philip Unwin’s death due to sepsis occurred after medical team’s failure to respond to nurses’ concerns that the patient was deteriorating while awaiting assessment. Mr Unwin waited more than 13 hours in the ED before his transfer to intensive care was initiated. The coroner...

26/02/2025

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25/02/2025

Administering a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feed: a guide for nurses

How to administer a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feed

25/02/2025

NHS managers agree to professional regulation

NHS leaders have agreed they should be professionally regulated to boost the public’s confidence in them following Lucy Letby's conviction, saying there should be ‘no fear of accountability’.

NHS managers have agreed they should be subject to professional regulation to help restore public trust following the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby. Proposals would prevent managers with a record of poor performance from working in healthcare, and hold them to account when they enda...

24/02/2025

Work or money stress: tips for nurses on taking control

As a nurse, you may be struggling to gain control of money, health worries or your career.

Here are actions to help you achieve your short and long-term goals.

As a nurse, you may face challenges and stresses at home as well as at work, whether with money, health worries or revalidation. Or you may be struggling to gain control of issues in your career and home life. Setting yourself goals – and identifying short and long-term steps you can take to achie...

24/02/2025

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23/02/2025

Nurses should have mandatory training on eating disorders because of an ‘alarming rise’ in the prevalence of such illnesses, according to a report.

This episode of the Nursing Standard podcast discusses eating disorders, specifically the issue of nasogastric feeding under restraint.

A recent report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eating Disorders calls for mandatory training for nurses due to a rise in the prevalence of such illnesses. The report also raises concerns over patients being discharged with dangerously low body mass index (BMI) scores and calls for a new n...

22/02/2025

Using feedback to build your confidence and nursing career

Feedback enables nurses to reflect on practice and improve skills – even if it’s not positive.

Find out how it can help to develop confidence and strengths.

Feedback is a valuable tool that helps nurses to reflect on practice and improve skills. From informal conversations to structured appraisals, embrace feedback to enhance your leadership, communication and clinical skills, and professional development. We look at tips for receiving and delivering fe...

22/02/2025

NMC was told to detoxify – six months on, how is it doing?

The NMC ordered a review of its culture after a whistleblower made serious allegations about its handling of fitness to practise cases.

We look at the progress made since the Afzal review.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council commissioned an independent review of its organisational culture in response to a whistleblower’s claims that a toxic workplace was harming the regulator’s handling of nurse fitness to practise (FtP) cases. Leading lawyer Nazir Afzal’s subsequent 2024 report m...