Apologies for my absense. Several times over the last few weeks I have thought of a blog post that I might want to write and post, but something (not entirely sure what) has stopped me. The question is – am I just lazy? Is it just that the...
Topics: Teenager, Teenagers

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As a UK nurse who has moved into a managerial career in the NHS, I was intrigued to receive a request for a guest post by Richard Hemby. Ok so he is keen to advertise the work he does for an online resourse for US college qualifications. The sentiments...
Topics: Nursing

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Today we have been informed by the Patient Association that a small but significant minority of nurses are cruel and uncaring. We have been told that some nurses in the NHS hold (often elderly) patients in contempt, that they fail to deliver even basic...
Topics: NHS, Nursing

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Over the years there have been many miscarriages of justice. I guess that because we don’t execute people then it is always possible to release a person who has been wrongly convicted. Recently the body of a young woman killed in 1979 was exhumed...
Topics: News and Current Affairs (general)

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Having no team to manage is often a blessing. I have to admit that I have had very few people reporting to me who have been troublesome, and the stories I hear from colleagues about the workshy, the incompetent, the people discovered working while off...
Topics: Blogging, Change of Shift, Leadership, Managers, NHS

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