Reporting concerns, whatever your role
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Reporting concerns, whatever your role

Pippa Clark Lead nurse for safe staffing, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust

Our practical guide explains how and in what circumstances to use ‘red flags’ to raise nurse staffing gaps, whether you’re a ward manager or leader, or a staff nurse

Feeling safe to raise concerns in the knowledge that any issues will be listened to and acted on is essential to our well-being at work. Whether about patient safety or staffing levels, we must have the courage to raise and escalate our concerns using the tools and support available, such as a red flag system.

Nursing Standard. 39, 1, 30-31. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.1.30.s16

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