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20 Sep 2023
Get active 鈥� what does that even mean?
I became 鈥樅诹贤� active鈥� in about 2013 but what does 鈥榞et active鈥� even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
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18 Sep 2023
Job evaluation raises pay and reward for nursing support workers in Bristol
In 2021 new job profiles were agreed by Staff Council, which includes the 黑料网 and NHS Employers. The new profiles say that Band 2 staff should be undertaking tasks such as feeding, bathing, toileting, recording fluid balance and nutrition while any staff undertaking patient observations and clinical care such as monitoring heart and blood pressure rates, taking bloods, wound observation and urine analysis should be job evaluated to Band 3. This meant that many staff were entitled to a re-band.
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24 Aug 2023
Black History Month
I recently attended an internationally educated nurses鈥� (IEN) event and was truly inspired by the amazing talent of our IENs.
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21 Jul 2023
Growing the nursing workforce
I鈥檓 a practice facilitator supporting trainee nursing associates (TNAs) in Somerset, and my focus is on expanding my university鈥檚 current placements for our TNAs into social care.
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21 Jun 2023
A dream come true
I used to see pictures of people attending events such as 黑料网 Congress on social media as a young nurse newly arrived from Africa and wish that could be me one day.
