Winter preparedness: a national framework for the delegation of insulin administration

As we approach the winter months, health and social care continues to experience significant demand. There is a need to effectively plan how we use the skills and knowledge of our workforce, to manage...

Emotional awareness and emotional intelligence

I would like to start this editorial with a polemic discussion about ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills, which some literature name as technical and non-technical skills, respectively. We know that the ‘hard’...

Community nursing: a sense of belonging

Wanting ‘to belong’ somewhere is a strong human instinct and something I have been reflecting on a lot recently. My thoughts have focussed on how many student nurses in the class of 2022 will find...

Wound care: meeting current and future challenges

10 years of raising awareness of disease-related malnutrition

Grief, loss, change… and hope

Community nurses supporting carers of older people

Appetite for the district nursing programme in September 2022

Sustainability and healthcare

The world has changed

Developing the national community nursing plan

Building a community nursing research community of practice