Clinical placement is an essential component of the pre-registration nursing degree and allows the nursing student to translate their learning from theory into practice. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) specify, to gain entry onto the professional register, the nursing student must complete 2,300 clinical hours over a full-time three-year degree programme. The first clinical placement can cause a lot of stress and anxiety for nursing students (Morely et al., 2015) and Alsharani, Cusack & Rasmussen (2018) explain that a negative experience during a nursing students first clinical placement may be a strong indicator that the nursing student will withdraw from the degree programme without completion.There are various reasons nurs ...

I’m writing this the day after International Nurses Day2021. A day my twitter feed was bursting with reflection, pride, support and thanking one another for the hard work over the last 12 months. Like many other nursing lecturers I have found this year really challenging but in a different way to those on the physical frontline. We have been under immense pressure to be creative from our spare rooms, children’s play rooms or kitchen tables and become digitally enabled to deliver remote teaching and learning. Challenging in itself but we have also needed to support the future Adult, Child, Mental Health, Learning Disability, dual award nursing workforce who may have opted in or out of deployment, registered nurses who had their postgraduate ...

The number of patients with more than one long-term health condition (often referred to as multimorbidity) is on the increase worldwide (The Academy of Medical Sciences, 2018).Whilst being almost universal in older populations (NICE, 2018) it is also increasing in younger populations (The Academy of Medical Sciences, 2018).  A number of issues come with have multiple long-term conditions. Patients are more likely to experience lower quality of life, premature death, have higher need fo rhealthcare services, and have increased chances of disability and mental health problems (The Richmond Group of Charities, 2018; NICE, 2018; The Academy of Medical Sciences, 2018). They are likely to experience poorer medicine management and polypharmacy (Th ...

This special edition of #WeNurses highlights Health Information Week #HIW2021, running 5-11 July 2021 from @healthinfoweek on Twitter. Health Information Week promotes reliable health information resources to members of the public. Tonight's chat will focus on what's new in health information: a new collection of uplifting resources aimed at NHS staff, a new standard kite mark for information quality assurance administered by the Patient Information Forum (the PIF Tick), and new ways that health information is being shared digitally (Twitter, TikTok, WhatsApp and other platforms).Questions Have you read/listened to/interacted with any of the resources recommended in Uplifting resources for the NHS from the NHS?What #uplifting resource would ...