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Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

01 February 2009

Nursing Management

Book Review

This book is an excellent introduction to the issue of nurse-patient ratios. It addresses the importance of knowing the difference between the number of nurses you...

Agenda for change

01 June 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflection

The point was made during this year’s RCN congress that NHS employers are making staff work overtime via a hospital bank with payment at a flat hourly rate. This way...

Agenda for change

10 May 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Among responses to the NHS Pension Review, I saw the suggestion that the government planned a return to local pay and the removal of unsocial hours payments. There...

Agenda for change

01 April 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

The new job evaluation (JE) system across the NHS is a real success of the Agenda for Change (AfC) negotiations. Previously there was no process for delivering equal...

Agenda for change

24 May 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Our nursing ancestors are not just Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale – they are the nurses who personally affected us and helped us realise that patient care is...

Safety in numbers – nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

14 October 2008

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This book is an excellent introduction for someone new to the issue of nurse-patient ratios. It offers analysis of some difficult questions and there are helpful...

Driving change

04 October 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Nurses who use their cars for work are in an increasingly difficult position. The rising price of petrol on the world market combined with high levels of tax on fuel...

Agenda for change

01 February 2006

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Every year NHS unions and employers give evidence to the pay review body (RB) – to increase wages (unions) or to limit rises (employers). The RB considers the...

The Essential Concepts of Nursing

28 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Book Review

It is clear that what people see in nursing is often the ‘doing’ bit and not the ‘knowing’. Because of this narrow view, the complexity of nursing is all too...

Agenda for change

22 November 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Whatever extra benefits may accrue with Agenda for Change (AfC), what will signify happiness and acceptance is staff recognition that they have been banded correctly...

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