An app a day to keep the doctor OK

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Researchers led by a team at the University of Aberdeen have produced an app for NHS frontline workers to help them have a ‘good day’ at work. Given the increased pressure on frontline workers due to Covid-19, the app has been designed to improve work satisfaction, mental health and resilience in medical personnel who may be struggling to cope with difficult working […]

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Beneath the White Coat

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Doctors in distress: Beneath the White Coat: Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health, the new book by Dame Clare Gerada. Society puts doctors on a pedestal and the medical culture reinforces this state of elevation. Our bio-medical approach to the doctor–patient relationship takes as a given that the doctor has authority and status of being […]

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Bradford Uni celebrates nurses

On International Nurses Day 2020 (May 12), the University of Bradford celebrates the role of nurses and its ongoing contribution to providing high quality teaching for healthcare professionals. At a time when the spotlight seems ever on healthcare, it is a measure of the quality of teaching at the University of Bradford’s Faculty of Health […]

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Nursing Now, International Nurses Day, 2020

To mark International Nurses Day, in this the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Nursing Now has made a film to shine a light on the incredible work of nurses around the world. This film uses the voices of people from different walks of life, from actors to footballers and global health-stakeholders to highlight […]

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Remembering the courageous nurses of ANZAC

As Australians and New Zealanders come together, exercising social distancing measures on their doorsteps this Saturday at dawn, we remember the harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War this Anzac Day. An introduction by Peter Rees to his book The Other Anzacs: Nurses at war […]

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Covid 19 – a first hand account from the ER

This is the account of a medic working in the ER of hospital in the United States.  Below he gives his first hand observations and opinion on the clinical progression of the Covid 19 patients he has treated.  I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have […]

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School Nurses

School nurses are qualified and registered nurses or midwives who have an additional qualification in community public health. They are concerned with students’ physical, mental and emotional health so bridge between education, health and care. They have to manage a huge variety of medical conditions and be flexible around students’ health needs. For example, epilepsy, asthma and diabetes […]

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International Nurses Day 2018

International Nurses Day is the 12th of May and organised annually by the International Council of Nurses. Its a day to celebrate  the contribution that nurses make to societies around the world. The date has strong significance, being the birthday of Florence Nightingale. So get up and dance! […]

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Nurses have needs too

Nurses often sacrifice their own needs to care for others, and this is right and good and expected. Nursing is a profession of selflessness where you give not to receive but to serve those in need. If you lack the ability to deny yourself (as some nurses seem to), then you can come across as […]

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