This article introduces a framework to support the integration and understanding of the role across care environments. Monitor, contribute, inform: a process to guide nursing associates appeared first on Nursing Times.

Wes Streeting discusses the importance of district nursing to Labour’s plans for the future of the NHS and reflects on several shifts he has done shadowing district nurses. ‘We will train thousands more district nurses’ appeared first on Nursing Times.

Understand why vitamin D is called the ‘sunshine vitamin’, its role in bone health and immunity and the effects of vitamin D deficiency and overdose. Vitamin D: the ‘sunshine vitamin’, its role and the effects of deficiency appeared first on Nursing Times.

Northumbria University’s department of nursing and midwifery is partnering with a local school to offer a T-level course for young people interested in a career in healthcare. University teams up with school to launch healthcare course appeared first on Nursing Times.

Dr Nichola Ashby, from the Royal College of Nursing, on what nurses can do better to protect themselves and their patients from TB. ‘TB is no longer a Victorian disease – it changed my career’  appeared first on Nursing Times.

Elon Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest people, known for expressing his often-polarising views, has seemingly come out as a champion of the nursing profession. Nurses championed on social media by multibillionaire Elon Musk    appeared first on Nursing Times.

Accidental falls are one of the biggest threats to the health and wellbeing of older people. Every year there are around 250,000 emergency hospital admissions... Portsmouth Care Home Pioneers New ‘Fall Risk’ Reduction Programme appeared first on The Carer.

Residents from three Dorset and Hampshire care homes enjoyed a postwar Britain-themed production performed by a theatre school in Bournemouth. Care home residents from Castle... Care Home Residents Enjoy Theatre Schools’ 50s-Themed Musical Drama Production appeared first on The Carer.

Health and Social Care staff in Northern Ireland are torn over the pay offer in the country, as health unions have unveiled their ballot results. But the deal will now be implemented. Northern Ireland pay deal to be implemented, despite union split appeared first on Nursing Times.

Oral mucositis (OM) is a common and debilitating adverse effect of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of both in head and neck cancer treatment. GelX®: advancing proactive care in oral mucositis management for head and neck cancer patients appeared first on Nursing Times.

Under-inflation pay rises over the past decade have left many nurses effectively working five days a month without pay, new analysis suggests, as thousands of nurses say they are poorer than a year ago. Nurses working ‘for free five days a month’ due to poor pay appeared first on Nursing Times.

A first-of-its-kind nurse-led service that helps secondary breast cancer patients access clinical trials is celebrating having helped 500 patients. Cancer patients given access to trials via innovative advocacy service appeared first on Nursing Times.