Embedding successful change through collaboration

Using feedback to deliver better care

The personal and professional impacts of becoming and being a professional nurse advocate

Engaging with improvement

The role of the nurse leader in facilitating effective support and communication to raise concerns

Raising concerns can feel daunting, no matter what level of responsibility a leader has within an organisation. It has been well documented within previous high-profile organisational reviews that the...

Advanced clinical practitioners' untapped potential to become managers

This was a mixed-method narrative review that drew upon a range of published material to go beyond simple commentary or opinion, using interpretation and critique to provide a summary on the topic of...

Addressing and mitigating the high costs of extravasation and infiltration to patients and healthcare organisations

Previously called chemotherapy, SACT can be further classified as vesicant, irritant, exfoliant, inflammatant or neutral, DNA-binding or non-DNA binding (Tanay, 2020). DNA-binding SACT such as...

Insights from BME women in academic and healthcare leadership

The experiences of BME women in academic leadership roles are a testament to resilience and perseverance. They navigate a landscape often marred by systemic inequalities and institutional biases, yet...

Inspiring nurses to lead on quality improvement projects to deliver excellent patient care

An earlier audit (Kidney Transplantation: Pitfalls and Ways to Improve) (Fernandez, and Banerjee, 2016) was presented at UK Kidney Week 2016. This showed that waiting for two referrals – a clinic...

Positive change

The summer has seen changes … a change of government, a change of health secretary and a change in policies. The proposed salary increases for healthcare staff, which at the time of writing are still...

Access to out-of-hospital care

As people are living longer with multiple, complex and long-term health issues, they can encounter challenges in accessing the essential primary care, social support and community-based services...

Registered nurses’ perceptions of nursing associates’ professional identity

Table 1 shows the themes that were identified..