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Leading by example to aid personal development

28 May 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

Nursing is a stressful and challenging profession that requires good leadership. This article, the first in a series of six, highlights some of the basic principles...

Creating a positive workplace culture

26 February 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

This article considers the link between emotional resilience and the mental and physical wellbeing of healthcare staff, and how this affects leadership and patient...

Six simple steps to ensure you achieve your aims

23 July 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

Goal setting is a common method for managers and leaders to set the direction of activities. Without clear goals, activities can continue for too long or never reach...

Using a template to coach yourself and others

02 September 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

Coaches question, inspire, motivate and support other people to change their lives. In doing so, they need enthusiasm and accountability, and the ability to set...

Promoting self-awareness in nurses to improve nursing practice

18 April 2007

Nursing Standard

CPD

This article explores the concept of self-awareness and describes how it can be beneficial to nurses on a personal and professional level. Practical tools such as...

How nursing students can be empowered by reflective practice

01 June 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Reflective practice is seen as an important skill to develop because it enables a nurse to become self-aware and provide the best possible patient care. This article...

Working with ‘difficult’ patients

28 October 2012

Primary Health Care

A&S Science

Communicating with some patients can be more difficult than it is with others. This can lead to patients being branded as difficult or demanding by healthcare...

Developing authentic mental health nursing research and practice

10 December 2014

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Throughout a project to research therapeutic relationships between women with anorexia and their care workers the author kept a reflexive account of the research,...

Counselling the spirit

15 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Feature

A ‘spiritual director’ may be able to help practitioners become more insightful, rounded nurses.

Understanding reflective practice

04 May 2016

Nursing Standard

CPD

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requires that nurses and midwives use feedback as an opportunity for reflection and learning, to improve practice. The NMC...