This blog comes from Alwin Puthenpurakal, an experienced senior lecturer and researcher working at The University of Greenwich. He led University apprenticeship programmes since its inception and highly values the impact it has on widening social mobility and addressing the national workforce challenges. With almost two decades worth of clinical experience, he is an experienced […]
Category: Safe staffing
Nurses working in academic settings play an important role in preparing students for their first role as a registered nurse
By Dr Jane Wray, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, and Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor (National Preceptorship Programme) @livinginhope and Desiree Cox, Programme Lead, National Preceptorship Programme, @desireecox07 The launch of the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing in England1 in October 2022 provides important information for students and nurses preparing the future nursing workforce. The new framework […]
Nursing and Post Pandemic Health Challenges
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ This International Year of the Nurse and Midwife has tested us like never before. Although the world has been waiting for a pandemic, and there have been scares (SARS, MERS, Ebola), here we are with COVID 19. Nurses the world over have packed away their celebratory banners […]
A Call to Action: The debate for safe staffing rages on
This week’s blog is by Catherine Best (@CBest_23) and Parveen Ali (@parveenazamali) from Sigma (SigmaTheta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, @sigmanursing). Contemporary nursing issues within the UK herald the need for staffing for safe and effective care (RCN, 2017). This requires the correct number of nurses, with the right level of skill, to […]