Richard West

Aug 5, 2024 | nursingtimes.net | Richard West |Carmel Bond |Sam Gournay

Future predictions for the nursing workforce make sobering reading, with the staff shortfall worsening in the years ahead (Shembavnekar et al, 2022). The ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published last year, aim to address this. It is estimated, however, that around 20% of nursing students leave their programme before graduating (Hamshire, 2019).

May 12, 2024 | pressherald.com | Richard West

Whenever one of my students asks me about “the real world,” I cringe. You see, I’m paid decently, receive dental, eye and health insurance, and I am not required to go into the office, say, more than three days a week. Clearly, I defer to others, outside of academia, when anyone asks me about “the real world.”Yet what is real to me is the academy, a profession that I’ve belonged for 31 years.