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A DRIVE to improve NHS staff health will fail unless one of the main causes of stress, namely lack of staff, is tackled, say unions.
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Absenteeism , Health Promotion , Nursing Staff/psychology , Nursing Staff/supply & distribution , Occupational Health , Humans , Pilot Projects , Program Development , United KingdomABSTRACT
A £5 million initiative to tackle the health of NHS workers will fail unless one of the biggest causes of stress - lack of staff - is addressed, the RCN has warned.
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ENGLAND'S CHIEF nurse Jane Cummings has written to nursing directors inviting them to become part of an expert group on safe staffing.
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Nurse Administrators , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/organization & administration , State Medicine/organization & administration , Guidelines as Topic , Humans , Leadership , Patient Safety , Professional Role , United KingdomABSTRACT
Nearly one fifth of nursing directors in England have been in the post for a year or less, exclusive research by Nursing Standard reveals.
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Nurse Administrators , Nursing Staff , Personnel Turnover , Nurse Administrators/statistics & numerical data , Nursing Staff/statistics & numerical data , Nursing Staff, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Personnel Turnover/statistics & numerical data , United KingdomABSTRACT
England's chief nurse Jane Cummings has written to directors of nursing to address what she describes as 'misconceptions' about news that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is shelving its programme of work on safe nurse staffing guidelines.
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Nurse Administrators , Nursing Staff, Hospital/organization & administration , Patient Safety , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling , Humans , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
Nurses who unwittingly administered saline contaminated by a colleague to murder two patients and poison 20 others have been given counselling.
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Crime/prevention & control , Nursing Staff, Hospital/standards , Safety , Nursing Staff, Hospital/organization & administration , United KingdomABSTRACT
Pain relief should be given routinely to all hospital patients who have dementia to prevent those who are unable to communicate that they are in pain being left untreated.
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Analgesia/trends , Dementia/drug therapy , Pain Management/standards , Pain Measurement/standards , Humans , Pain Management/methods , United KingdomABSTRACT
Many residential hospitals for people with learning disabilities will be shut over the next two years as part of a government pledge to move people out of these settings following the Winterbourne View abuse scandal.
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Health Facility Closure/trends , Intellectual Disability/therapy , Residential Facilities/supply & distribution , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
For the past year and a half the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has been a hive of activity as it tries to repair its tarnished reputation. Barely a month goes by without nurses being consulted on some proposed change, a requirement under the NMC's governing legislation.
