Supply and demand of PPE

Fellowship, education and benevolence is core to The Company of Nurses

Creating a livery company for the nursing profession was a way to bring nurses together, wherever and whenever they had trained. Fellowship, help with education and professional development—and...

Social prescribing: collaboration in times of stability and crisis

‘Supporting people, via social prescribing link workers, to make community connections and discover new opportunities, building on individual strengths and preferences, to improve health and...

We're all in this together

Prostate cancer in Scotland: an evolutionary journey

The complexities of the journey from diagnosis to treatment shine a light on the importance of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) team, which acts as the glue that binds everything together. At the...

Nursing in a pandemic

Urology nurses lead the way in adopting an innovative prostate biopsy technique

The COVID-19 pandemic

Looking beyond the coronavirus: lessons and principles

Some fundamental public health lessons have been lost on generations born in the second half of the 20th century and in the early part of this one. These include neglecting to wash hands, washing them...

What is a therapeutic environment?

‘The ability to do something successfully or efficiently. Competence indicates sufficiency of knowledge and skills to enable someone to act in a wide variety of situations. Each level of...

Should nurses be technology enhanced?

Recognising the importance of stoma care nurse specialists

Stomal complications and management issues can arise at any time during a person's time with a stoma and can affect every aspect of their lives. Consequently, a long-term integrated pathway is...