Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the UK and globally (World Health Organization, 2021), accounting for about a third of lives lost each year (Office for National Statistics, 2021). Most people know someone who has a 'heart problem'. They may or may not call it heart failure.…

Ewout, a second years child nursing student, shares the experience of witnessing cardiac surgery

ewout van sabben As a second year’s child nursing student, I had the opportunity and privilege to witness cardiac surgery on an 11-year-old boy with Rheumatic Heart Disease, during my fourth placement on a Paediatric Intensive Care…

Michelle Quested talks to Nursing Times about the difficulties of going back to nursing after losing the ability to walk

After a spinal cord injury left Michelle Quested unable to walk, her extraordinary determination got her back on the ward at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Nursing is a selfless choice of…

Minija Joseph innovates and advocates for change in cardiac theatre nursing

minija joseph Minija “Mini” Joseph, who has been a nurse of over 25 years, is theatre manager at King’s College Hospital in London and a cardiac revolutionary. As well as her illustrious career, she has written a training manual for…

When your patient needs care but wants company, it can be difficult to find the right balance, as community nurse Sue McCreadie found when she nursed Cherry.

Cherry* sat with a serene smile on her face wearing oven gloves and stroking a tiny hedgehog, fleas jumping off the bed around them.…

Health promotion is part of every nurse’s role but conversations are not always easy to start. Practice nurse and health promotion enthusiast, Jaqui Walker, explains how World Cancer Research Fund can help

From the moment I first qualified as a nurse, I saw the pain cancer brings to individuals and their…

We talk to Karen Jackson, standards and practice matron at Guy’s and St Thomas’, who has been a qualified nurse for 15 years.

karen jackson Why did you decide to become a nurse? I wanted to be a nurse from the age of eight. My mum was in and out of hospital…

While most people will be taking an extended break from work, nurses around the country will be delivering care to the one in four of the population with a long-term condition.

The symptoms of heart disease, COPD, asthma, diabetes and depression don’t take time off over Christmas. In fact some of…

Emergency nursing is a fast, exciting, sometimes infuriating but most of all vibrant specialty.

We work 24/7 to provide a full range of services, including assessment and management of patients with minor injury and illness, through to cardiac and neurological emergencies, major trauma and mental health emergencies. We cannot predict what…

A passion for nursing has shaped the last three decades of Susan Nightingale’s life

Susan Nightingale “Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it: we are going backwards.” Florence Nightingale’s quotation is a favourite of a nurse who shares…