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developing mentorship through collaboration

01 April 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Learning disability nursing in Scotland can be considered to be facing some difficult times. A recent report looking at workforce planning (Scottish Executive 2004)...

Modernisation: the role of ward sisters and charge nurses

10 September 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background The nursing profession is being directed by the government to modernise alongside the NHS as an organisation (DoH 2000). The role of ward sister/charge...

Improving Retention With a Nurse Rotational Programme

01 February 2001

Paediatric Nursing

Management

The Occupational climate into which newly qualified nurses are entering is turbulent and the NHS is facing the worst shortage of qualified nurses for 25 years, with...

Summer schools to improve recruitment and retention of pre-registration mental health student nurses

01 May 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

A series of two-day summer schools focused on mental health nursing were planned and delivered by Staf-fordshire University’s Faculty of Health to improve the...

Workforce planning: is there a right way?

01 July 2004

Mental Health Practice

Management

It has always been difficult to understand how decisions regarding skill mix have been made. It is even harder to explain them to clinicians under pressure,...

Recruitment problems in intensive care: a solution

04 December 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article examines the problems associated with recruiting nurses trained in intensive care. It discusses the solutions found at a large district general hospital...

Nurse to patient ratios in American health care

15 December 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Nurses are employed in large numbers throughout health care. When their salary cost is considered as a percentage of total salary cost, they are arguably...

The role of student ambassadors in university recruitment

03 May 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Recruitment to nursing programmes is becoming increasingly difficult. At Staffordshire University we applied to a project called Higher Education Full Circle for the...

‘I want to be a nurse, but…’: a student’s experience of clinical placements

01 October 2002

Paediatric Nursing

Education

Sue Price’s article on ‘the recruitment and retention of children’s nurses’ (PN 14, 6, 39-43) prompted lively discussion in the University where I am a child branch...

Employing children’s nurses?

01 April 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Management

In 1994, the UKCC directed employers ‘only to appoint persons into posts for which they have been appropriately prepared by their programme of education and training...