Blogs
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18 Jan 2024
January is Love Your Liver awareness month
Tara Rees, lead nurse practitioner for the hepatology service at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ Wales Nurse of the Year 2023, explains why better understanding of our liver and taking care of it is so important.
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17 Jan 2024
More nurses in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
This blog highlights the cooperation between the History of Nursing Forum and the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to document the lives and contributions of nurses who made an outstanding contribution to the profession and society.
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17 Jan 2024
Happy New year from your South West leadership team
Your regional top team of elected members join your regional director in wishing you a Happy New Year and looking forward to 2024 from their own particular perspectives.
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17 Jan 2024
Why we do not support the National Care Service Bill
Despite agreeing with the aims behind the Bill, Colin Poolman outlines why we cannot support it.
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15 Jan 2024
Newly qualified nurses in prison - where’s the support?
Prison nursing - the seemingly 'hidden' profession and one that is never spoken about during nurse education IS in fact an option for the newly qualified nurse! But this 'hidden' element can leave you without people to talk to about work - when your university friends are all hospital or community-based, where do you turn?
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10 Jan 2024
The power of sharing perspectives: How a new programme empowered care workers to improve resident care
Specialist Nurse Practitioner, Lola Soloye talks about developing a new workshop that offers care workers valuable experience using blood glucose machines.
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19 Oct 2023
Standing up for Black nursing staff
For Black History Month, ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ President Sheila Sobrany writes about how the ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ is celebrating throughout October, and the continuing struggle for racial justice and equality.
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21 Sep 2023
Season change in nursing
¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ President, Sheila Sobrany looks at the challenges and opportunities in the coming months
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20 Sep 2023
Get active – what does that even mean?
I became ‘¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
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18 Sep 2023
'I seldom get to meet patients waiting for a transplant but I know they are counting on me'
This Organ Donation Week, ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ Fellow Anthony Clarkson encourages everyone to think about making this life-saving decision.