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Community nursing team shares their first research experience
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Area Nursing Manager Nicola Zolnhofer has shared her team’s experience of their first community research study.
Network for Community Children’s Nurses reaches new milestone
Community Children’s Nurses (CCNs) provide vital care to babies, children and young people with some of the most complex healthcare needs in the community.
Nursing open day to be held in Gloucestershire
A nursing open day will be held in Gloucestershire to recruit Community Nurses.
Award-winning collaboration helps patients and district nurses
A new approach to delivering palliative at-home treatment to advanced heart failure patients in Wales has been hailed a success – with hopes the award-winning model can be rolled out nationally.
QNI draft standards for community nursing specialisms are out for consultation
The Queen’s Nursing Institute has published draft Standards for six specialisms in community nursing and these are now available for public consultation.
Community nurse appeals for help for earthquake victims
A community nurse in Walsall is trying to comfort her devastated husband as he comes to terms with losing five family members in the earthquake which affected south-eastern Turkey near its border with Syria.
Florence Nightingale Foundation launches new five-year strategy
The Florence Nightingale Foundation has unveiled ambitious plans to grow its reach in its new five-year strategy.
NMC supports forcibly displaced professionals to join its register
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published a new policy to support forcibly displaced people to join its register safely.
‘Brilliant nurse and fantastic role model’ retires
Being able to make a difference to patients’ lives was the career highlight for nurse Lyndsey Allen who retired from Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust this month.
Registrations welcome for ‘educational’ continuous glucose monitoring webinar
Healthcare professionals looking to refresh their diabetes knowledge following the “pandemic brain drain” are invited to sign up for the first session of a new monthly webinar series dedicated to the subject.
Registration opens for Insulin Safety Week 2023
A themed week to raise awareness of insulin safety across hospital trusts and other care settings is set to return this year, with healthcare professionals now invited to register.
Digital technology is failing community nursing teams, according to QNI survey
The Queen’s Nursing Institute has published the results of a new survey of digital technology in community nursing.
Changes to pre-registration education programme standards
A leading figure at the Nursing & Midwifery Council has talked about the changes to its pre-registration education programme standards.
Queen’s Nurse Annual Meeting 2023
Queen’s Nurses will be able to listen to insightful speakers at the Queen’s Nurse Annual Meeting next month.
Registration open for Trend Diabetes’ National Conferences 2023
Healthcare professionals involved in diabetes nursing can now register for one of three conferences dedicated to the subject in June.
Popular nurse’s wigs are donated to help others receiving cancer treatment
Clinical Education Midwife, Laura Christopher, has given three wigs to the Macmillan Wig Bank at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust after her mum, Donna, lost her battle against cancer.
Nursing lecturer is made a Queen’s Nurse
Sheffield Hallam University nursing lecturer, Jo Painter, has been made a Queen’s Nurse by The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
Prestigious nursing honour for university academic
A Teesside University academic who is helping to shape the next generation of nurses has been awarded a prestigious nursing title.
Consultation launched on nurse apprenticeship plans
The Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner (NMC 2022) Trailblazer Group has opened a consultation on the draft apprenticeship standard for the Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner (NMC 2022).