Nursing Standard

Nursing Standard is a professional magazine released weekly, featuring peer-reviewed articles, research studies, news, and career insights specifically for nurses. It is published by RCNi and is included in databases such as CINAHL and MEDLINE/PubMed for easy access to its content.

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Hospital nurses ‘subject to inappropriate and racist’ remarks

1 week ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Reports of racism, theft and drug-taking by hospital staff have been uncovered by a review of University Hospital of Wales, leading to an atmosphere of fearNurses at one of the largest hospitals in the UK were reportedly told they needed name badges because they ‘all looked the same’, a report has found.
Exodus of EU nurses ‘most likely’ cause of extra patient deaths

1 week ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Study suggests when Brexit prompted many EU nurses to leave UK, this changed the nursing skill mix and may have contributed to almost 1,500 extra patient deaths per yearChanges to the UK nursing skill mix brought on by nurses from the European Union (EU) leaving due to uncertainty triggered by Brexit could have contributed to almost 1,500 additional patient deaths per year, a study suggests.
Senior nurse suspended for putting vulnerable patients at risk

1 week ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Advanced nurse practitioner Julia Nixon suspended from the NMC register after fitness to practise panel upholds multiple misconduct charges against herAn advanced nurse practitioner who repeatedly failed to carry out home visits for vulnerable and deteriorating patients has been suspended from the register.
Gaps in staff training could have contributed to woman's death

2 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Ivy Dixon had a cardiac arrest after choking on food at Acorn Lodge Care Home and a report states that nursing staff may have lacked clinical skills to save herNursing staff at a care home might not have had the clinical skills to save a resident who died after choking on food, due to a possible lack of training, a coroner found. Ivy Dixon died after experiencing a cardiac arrest in October 2024. She was being fed by staff at Acorn Lodge Care Home, London, when she choked on her food.
The best care for people living longer with or beyond cancer

2 weeks ago | rcni.com | Jennifer Sprinks

Advice for cancer nurses on nutritional management in mesothelioma and their role in preventive interventions for cardiovascular effects induced by cancer treatmentAt RCNi, publisher of Cancer Nursing Practice, our aim is to be the lifelong learning partner of nurses, students and healthcare support staff. Our journals, learning modules and webinars provide nurses with information on the latest developments affecting nursing practice, their roles and health care.
Reasonable adjustments failure: trust must pay nurse over £200K

2 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Tribunal orders Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to pay nurse more than £200,000 after it failed to make reasonable adjustments on his return to work post-brain haemorrhageA community nurse who suffered a brain haemorrhage has been awarded more than £200,000 after it was found his former NHS employer failed to make reasonable adjustments for him on his return to work.
Staff anger over holiday pay cut and parking hike at NHS trust

2 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Unions criticise proposed reduction in pay rate for annual leave accrued while working overtime, as well as 8.5% rise in staff parking charges at NHS trustNursing staff have hit back at plans to cut holiday pay and increase parking costs at a hospital trust in the north east of England.
Nurse’s murder: estranged husband given life sentence

2 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Nursing lecturer Claire Chick’s estranged husband given a minimum term of 27 years for her murder, after stabbing her more than 20 times with a kitchen knifeA man has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the murder of his estranged wife, senior nursing lecturer Claire Chick. Paul Butler, 53, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, stabbed Ms Chick more than 20 times with a kitchen knife he had bought hours earlier.
Mandatory training to move with staff if they switch NHS employers

3 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Change will mean NHS nursing staff in England no longer have to repeat already completed statutory and mandatory training when they move organisationsNurses and other healthcare staff will be able to tranfser their completed statutory and mandatory (StatMand) training when they move between NHS organisations in England from May. NHS England (NHSE) said the move will help save up to 200,000 days of staff time over the next financial year.
Nurse suspended for timesheet fraud totalling more than £17,000

3 weeks ago | rcni.com | Shruti Sheth Trivedi

NMC fitness to practise panel hears Julie Deuchars submitted 45 timesheets for agency shifts she did not work and signed them off herself, claiming thousands of poundsA nurse who stole more than £17,000 by falsifying dozens of timesheets for agency shifts she did not work has been suspended for six months.