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8 Oct 2018
Healthcare employers need to be ‘back aware’ to retain an ageing nursing workforce
The theme of this week’s annual back care awareness week is back pain in older adults.
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10 Jul 2018
5 ways you can practise self-care on a budget
Caring for yourself is usually a big challenge when money is tight. It can be the last thing on your mind and full of hurdles. As an adviser in the Lamplight Support Service many nursing professionals I speak to are grappling with this. Here are some tips to keep up with self-care while on a budget that have been recommended by RCN members and staff.
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16 Mar 2018
World Sleep Day - quality and quantity of sleep is an issue for the nursing workforce
Driving home after a night shift, arriving home and not remembering the journey; needing copious amounts of caffeine to get you through a rapidly rotating shift; needing matchsticks to keep your eyes open after being up all night caring for a sick dependent and then needing to go into work the next day – sound familiar?
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13 Mar 2018
Nutrition and Hydration Week – It’s for nursing staff too
Like many of you I was horrified but sadly not surprised to read the testimonies from the RCN’s survey on safe staffing. Nurses going 14 hours without a drink, holding on for the toilet and colleagues developing kidney stones.
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16 Feb 2018
Random Acts of Kindness Day
Tomorrow it is Random Acts of Kindness Day and it got me thinking about the work I do together with the nursing family.
