Nurse News
For the latest nursing news, nursing tips or simply thought and gossip. We round up all the things that help London’s agency nurses be the best they can!
Thoughtful Nurse Christmas Gifts
It’s crazy to think we’re about to enter the festive season for 2019, yet here we are! It’s been a turbulent and excessively stressful year for nurses, on top of the usual demands of the job, there have been increased staff shortages and (dare we mention it) Brexit...
UK Nurse English Language Requirements
Landing a job as a nurse in the UK brings many advantages and plenty of opportunities. If you are a nurse who wants to come to work in this country, however, you’ll need to meet the basic nurse english language requirements. Here we take a look at what international...
5 Nursing Expectations vs Reality
There’s no doubt that nursing is a tough, demanding but rewarding job. It’s often portrayed as a vocation where you care for patients who are friendly and thankful, and healthcare professionals come together in a supportive environment. While this is not entirely...
World Mental Health Day 2019
Mental health is an area of healthcare in which we face some of the biggest challenges in modern society. It’s an area of wellbeing which, compared to physical health, has been neglected and grossly underfunded for decades. This is why events such as World Mental...
Format Your CV for a Senior Healthcare Role
Are you ready to step up into a senior healthcare role? Well, your CV needs to look the part! Your CV must highlight your experience and suitability for the role but it also needs to stand out from all the others. While many of the standard formatting solutions apply...
Nursing CPD Points and You
Across the nursing sector, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a vital part of ensuring that today’s workforce is kept up to date with the latest developments. Whether it’s learning a new skill or refreshing existing knowledge, CPD is designed to not only...
Why Join the DBS Update Service
All nurses and healthcare professionals in the UK know that each new role they apply for and move into will require an updated DBS check to be performed. The main reason for the service is to help employers make safe decisions when it comes to employing staff, many of...
Carers Week 2019
There is an army of carers in the UK, largely unsung heroes who give their time and energy to looking after the most vulnerable in society. While some are employed in healthcare or are nurses, many others provide unpaid care to partners, parents, children or friends....
International Nurses Day
International Nurses Day takes place on May 12th each year, the date of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. It was originally created in 1974 to commemorate all the work that nurses do around the world. Nursing staff and healthcare practitioners are all too often unsung...
World Health Day
As a species, we are probably healthier than we have been in our entire existence. While there are plenty of issues that we still need to tackle, the truth is that life expectancy is increasing at its fastest rate and new innovations in medicine and treatment are...
Nurse Life Spring Clean
There’s no doubt that we as nurses are amongst the busiest professionals on the planet. If you’re involved in healthcare of any kind, the chances are that you're more concerned about other people than yourself. We’re now three months into the new year and it might...
Love Agency Nursing
Working as a nurse in healthcare, is a challenging, however highly rewarding occupation. While most people in nursing see the job more as a calling than a profession, achieving the right balance when it comes to work and home life is still really important. Working as...
Healthy Nurse Lunchbox Ideas
A 2017 survey among healthcare professionals found that 1 in 4 nurses in England are obese. While we as nurses spend most of our time looking after others, it seems we often neglect to care for ourselves. Job stress and long hours in addition to other factors tend to...
Nurse Christmas Gift Ideas
We're well into December and that means many people are looking for gifts for family members and colleagues! We've been on the hunt for unique and quirky nurse Christmas gift ideas that are sure to be loved! Whether you buying for a nurse colleague, friend or loved...
Top 5 Online UK Nursing Resources
Working in the UK nursing arena is certainly varied and interesting. As a registered nurse, you’ll be qualified to work in a wide range of healthcare environments, from local GPs and hospitals to private clinics and nursing homes. A UK Nursing qualification is also...
Responsible Nurse Social Media Usage
Social media is probably the most powerful and widely used communication tool in the world today. We use it to contact friends, find out what’s happening in the news, watch videos and post quirky images of our pets. For nurses, sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and...
Benefits of a Nursing Career in the UK
Most of those who work in nursing will tell you it’s more than just a career, it’s a calling. Providing care for patients at the most critical time in their life is rewarding and challenging. It’s a job where no one day is quite like another. But choosing to pursue a...
Nurse Self Care – The Importance of Exercise
Nursing is certainly one of the most stressful and demanding jobs you can ever hope to do. It’s also one of the most rewarding. Nurse self care is vital in this role, and one important factor in self care is exercise. Of course, when you’ve been working a long hard...
Nurse Self Care – Get Enough Sleep!
If you can’t remember the last time you had a good night’s sleep, you’ve got something in common with about 68% of the population. In our over-stressed world, it seems we’re getting less than our allotted 8 hours a night and that can have a huge impact on overall...
Nurse Self Care – Healthy Eating Habits
Nobody is more aware of the benefits of healthy eating than a nurse. The trouble is, with the demanding and stressful job of nursing, it is easy for nurses themselves get into bad habits. Eating on the go, opting for quick but unhealthy food and working odd shifts can...
Why You Should Consider a Career in Nursing
There are few careers that attract such widespread admiration as nursing. People go into this element of healthcare profession for a whole variety of reasons, most notably because they want to help others. There’s no doubt that a career in nursing is challenging. But...
How to Respond to Nurse Bullying
There is widespread incidence of nurse bullying within the healthcare profession that still continues today. Some nurses may have encountered bullies before which made them question their own ability, skills and nursing credibility. Remember that the victims are not...
Choose the Best Nursing Shifts
Being able to do agency work and take on extra nursing shifts is great. Earning extra money to add to your savings or put towards your next holiday is always a bonus. With the recent nursing shortages across the country, agency nurses are high in demand. However, as...
Nursing Time Management – Top Tips
Being a nurse is a rewarding job, however it often comes with a frantic schedule. More experienced nurses will have become better at managing their time more efficiently. For new nurses, nursing time management is a skill that needs to be worked at. Here are a few...
Communicating Effectively with Doctors
In hospitals, there seems to be an unspoken hierarchy where doctors reign supreme. It may be understandable for some since they make the diagnosis and treatments. However, some nurses find this social ladder quite intimidating making communicating effectively with...
Top 6 Nursing Home Handover Tips for London Nurses
Starting a shift at a new nursing home can be quite daunting for London nurses, regardless of you nursing experience levels. There is always a transition period that comes with changing to a different nursing home, during which you’ll need to quickly find your feet...
The Stigma of Agency Nursing
With the advent of the NHS staffing crisis, and shortage of care home nurses, agency nurses are often around to support. Nurses however are quite a "clicky"bunch. Nurses like the familiar faces of colleagues and people who they are comfortable working with. They like...
Top 7 Nursing Essentials
Every job has its only unique requirements and there are certain things without which, you would not be able to carry out your role to the best of your ability. Nursing is no different - there are nursing essentials that make the job just that much easier, and make...
Building Cultural Competence in Nursing
The world is a much smaller place than it was a decade or so ago as a result of globalisation. We have become exposed to different kinds of food and drink as well as cultures. Exposure however does not automatically lead to a deeper understanding of our diversity as...
How to Avoid Nursing Burnout
With the current healthcare work climate in the UK, it isn’t surprising to hear about nursing burnout more often. Working as a nurse is a demanding job that requires constant focus. It is highly challenging taking care of sick and vulnerable people and understaffing...
Be Assertive when Building Your Nursing Career
No person is the same. Each and every one of us is distinct - different personality, a different identity. Our characteristics define who we are and it is a roadmap of where we were and where we will be. In the workplace, there are times when individuality helps with...
Techniques to Manage Nursing Stress
Although it can be one of the most rewarding professions, nursing can also be the most stressful. Understaffing, limited breaks, ultra-long shifts and a lack of training are among the reasons that nurses are leaving the NHS in their droves. In order to be able to look...
Improve your Nursing Bedside Manners
It isn’t unusual to discover that some nurses lack nursing bedside manners, but can this set of skills be taught or learned? Nursing bedside manners are an essential trait to have, for a nurse. Your manner will help you to establish rapport with your patient and also...
Top tips for Nurses Returning to Work
It isn’t unusual for nurses to take a career detour these days. Actually, it seems to be becoming more of the norm as medical professionals move to experience other environments or to decide whether their chosen field is really the one for them. In some instances...
How to Survive Your First Day of Agency Nursing
Even if you are a seasoned nurse, doing your first agency shift can still be daunting. Adjusting to a new working environment and working with a new healthcare team in a new routine can be overwhelming. This is especially true when as an agency nurse you are expected...
5 Ways to Advance Your Nursing Career
A nursing career in the UK can be demanding and exciting at the same time. There are plenty of opportunities and specialisations available that allow you to excel and advance your nursing career in the UK. If you are a registered UK nurse and can’t decide where you...
Promote a Healthy Lifestyle: Be a Healthy Nurse
It is not a secret in the care profession that nurses often don’t have the best lifestyle choices and practices. It's difficult to be a healthy nurse! Our job demands dedication and makes it hard for us to drink when we’re thirsty, eat regularly and even go to the...
What Nurses Want From a Modern London Nursing Agency
Modern London nursing agencies have emerged with a vision to facilitate residential, public and private sectors in finding trained and qualified nurses. Through agencies, nurses have the flexibility to choose where and when they want to work in their designated field....