The Nursing Week Opinion
The survey
We asked: have you observed a rise in patients waiting on trolleys in A&E?
YES 76%
Next week: do you regularly use your own mobile phone for work purposes? Vote at
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The student survey
We asked: do you like talking about nursing issues on Twitter?
NO 62%
Your opinion
Clinical leadership vital for learning disability care There are some amazing learning disability services
NO 24%
Online top 5 1
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What is the ideal nursing skill mix?
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Maybe it’s time for Cinderella to go to the ball
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“50 Shades of Grey encourages safe sex”
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editorial advisory board
Cheryll Adams, independent adviser health visiting and community health policy and practice; Maggie Boyd, executive director of clinical quality and nursing, Derbyshire County PCT; Lesley Doherty, chief executive, Royal Bolton Hospital Foundation Trust; Michele Hiscock, deputy director of nursing, Royal Brompton and Harefi eld Foundation Trust; Jill Maben, senior research fellow and deputy director, National Nursing Research Unit, King’s College London; Gail P Mooney, director, postgraduate studies, School of Human and Health Science, Swansea University; Andrea Nelson, professor of wound healing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds; Anne Marie Raff erty, dean, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London; Eileen Sills CBE, chief nurse/chief operating offi cer, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust; Janice Sigsworth, director of nursing, Imperial College Healthcare Trust; Tamar Thompson, independent health services adviser; Jane Sayer, programme director (nursing excellence and Magnet Recognition), South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust
that provide truly person-centred care, where people are treated with dignity and respect; however, there are also some places that we hear about that provide appalling care (“Learning disability services must be reshaped and localised,”
nursingtimes.net). Services must provide clinical leadership at all
This week’s top stories on
nursingtimes.net
Sharon Osborne publicises bowel cancer symptoms
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“Be clear about your motivation for the profession”
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levels. The right checks must be in place to support staff when working with people who are vulnerable, including supervision, audits of practice and clinical reviews with families or carers. Staff also need access to ongoing education and training, so people are able to think about what they are seeing and challenge it. Anonymous,
nursingtimes.net
Patient safety at risk with fewer NHS staff
Regarding the news story “NHS employee headcount down by 20,000” (
nursingtimes.net), will senior management never learn that reduced nursing staff numbers equals a reduction in patient safety, an increase in both patient and carer dissatisfaction, and an inevitable huge increase in litigation? Roger Hodgson,
nursingtimes.net
Let specialists be experts in their fi elds
All nurses have completed basic training but we all have our area of interest (“Stop redeploying nurses outside their specialist areas,”
nursingtimes.net). Nurses should be allowed to work in their area of
preference so we can give the best patient care. I am a gastrointestinal nurse with a surgical background. I was completely lost and felt like a newly qualifi ed nurse when I had to cover a shift on an orthopaedic ward. Victoria Aikins,
nursingtimes.net
Local pay means health inequalities
Regarding “First union rejects Agenda for Change proposals” (
nursingtimes.net), the service we provide is called the “National Health Service”; if we revert to local agreements, the national will become local. This means that the poorest areas will have the poorest services because nurses will move for larger pay packets. If this was to happen, we
would be back to 1940. Bill Friend,
nursingtimes.net
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