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Channel passion into services
Perhaps the only certainty in life, apart from death and taxes, is that things are going to change.
Channel passion into services
Perhaps the only certainty in life, apart from death and taxes, is that things are going to change.
Seeing things as they really are
I heard a heartwarming story the other day about a boy with dyslexia and other learning difficulties. He went to a school for children with special educational needs but, at first, struggled academically.
Education and celebration
At the end of this month more than 400 nursing students are expected to attend the annual Positive Choices conference in Edinburgh.
Time to raise standards of care
Last year's Panorama documentary about alleged abuse at Winterbourne View hospital, Bristol, continues to affect care provision in the UK.
A blueprint for the future
Early findings from the Care Quality Commission's inspection of learning disability services have revealed a number of shortcomings.
Where is our workforce?
There are just under 6,000 learning disability nurses working in the NHS and around 19,000 on the Nursing and Midwifery Register.
Supply and demand
Professor Bob Gates has submitted his report on England's learning disability nursing workforce to the Department of Health ( news page 5 ). It will now be considered by the health minister responsible for nursing, Anne Milton.
Checks and balances
How often do you go to your family doctor for a check up? Most people I know avoid their GP surgeries at all cost. The depressing decor, the coughing and sneezing, the long waits, the rowdy toddlers, the sceptical receptionist/gatekeeper, the rushed and unsympathetic consultation and the overall sense that I have wasted my time keep me away for years at a time.
Give the NMC some teeth
News that police have arrested 11 staff in connection with allegations of abuse and mistreatment of people at Winterbourne View hospital will be cold comfort to the patients and families concerned.
Be an outstanding mentor
There is a myth that nurses 'eat their young', that we are hostile to our students and newly qualified colleagues. The reason for this, legend would have it, is because we were made to suffer in the same way when we were in their situation, and it is good for them. The truth is that while we occasionally do bite chunks off each other, few of us could eat a whole nurse.
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