The NHS relies on nurses from poorer countries to fill jobs – here’s how to tackle this problem: DC Studio/Shutterstock Recent media reports have highlighted the issue of nurses coming to the UK to work for the NHS from poorer countries with their own nursing shortfalls. This is a problem because when nurses leave countries …
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Nurses: attracting more men to the profession could help with talent shortage: Seldom has the state of the NHS workforce been more in the public consciousness. A global survey of nurses undertaken by the consultancy firm McKinsey in the summer of 2022 highlighted the perilous state of the sector. The survey, which was conducted in …
‘It’s like being in a warzone’ – A&E nurses open up about the emotional cost of working on the NHS frontline: Shutterstock/Ground Picture As nurses prepare to strike for the first time, an A&E nurse and lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare writes about the stress, fear, grief and guilt they feel every day working …
Nurses’ strike is about more than pay – it’s about ensuring good care: BradleyStearn/Shutterstock For the first time its 106-year history, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the UK’s largest nursing union, has voted to take strike action. Nurses in the UK have been on strike before and achieved change, but the scale of this …
Burned-out heroes: why bedside nurses should not have to be martyrs to be valued: In 2020, we saw windows pasted with rainbows, hospitals flooded with donations and NHS workers regularly described as heroes. While linked to heightened risks faced by health workers during the pandemic, notions of self-sacrifice in nursing are not new. In fact, …
The challenges faced by doctors and nurses in conflict zones: Quite aside from the deadly and disorienting consequences for Ukraine’s citizens, Russia’s invasion places unique pressure on its doctors and nurses. Cardiac arrests, caesareans and appendectomies are now often accompanied by injuries that should be relatively rare: gunshot and shrapnel wounds, third-degree burns, double or …
South Africa in the news: 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in California authorize strike action by 96 percent: The vote is a major development in the growing push by workers for nationwide strike action in the United States against unbearable working hours, the erosion of wages by high inflation and against …: …
South Africa in the news: The Latest: Nevada hospitals see severe shortage of nurses: LAS VEGAS — Nevada hospitals are seeing a severe shortage of nurses and some northern Nevada hospitals are nearly out of staffed beds for patients, state health officials said Thursday. Nevada had a …: “South Africa” – BingNews Bafana Bafana must …
COVID-19: frontline nurses did not receive the mental health support they deserved: Kittrat Roekburi/Shutterstock For many people, the social restrictions experienced during lockdown will have long-lasting effects. These include stress, depression, insomnia, fear, anger, frustration, boredom and stigma associated with quarantine. But during the pandemic, NHS staff had to face all these things and deal …
Technology in hospitals can delay care: what doctors and nurses in South Africa told us: Using technology in routine healthcare delivery has isn't without its downside. Shutterstock Information and communication technologies can dramatically improve healthcare delivery. They can make communication and exchange of information between healthcare professionals easier. And patients can consult doctors remotely. Some …
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South Africa in the news: Vaccine encourages nurses to stay on the Covid-19 front line: Healthcare workers who took part in the first rollout of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine said they were feeling safer.: “South Africa” – BingNews Health dept ‘ahead of target’ in vaccine rollout for healthcare workers: The health department released …
Nurses report PTSD symptoms due to the pandemic – here’s why: Nurses have been putting themselves in harm’s way every day since the pandemic began. But as coronavirus spreads rapidly in the UK, it has become clear that those in intensive care units are now under more pressure than others. Hospitals are nearing capacity in …
COVID has exposed a long-running shortage of nurses that is putting NHS patients at risk: “Protect the NHS” has been a recurring message that has shaped the UK’s response to COVID-19. The danger that the pandemic could overwhelm the NHS has never been far out of sight. As we approach the five-day relaxation of restrictions …
Why Uganda must recognise nurses for more than a decade of HIV care: Many hospitals permit nurses to initiate and manage patients on ART. Jean-Marc Giboux/Getty Images In the years after the “slim disease” or HIV was first recognised in southwestern Uganda in 1982, access to treatment was for a privileged few. At the time, …
Nurses are playing a bigger role than ever in the fight against HIV – they deserve more support: 2020 is the international year of the nurse and midwife. Shutterstock The first cases of HIV were reported in 1981. Since then, nurses all over the world have been at the forefront of the fight against the …