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26 blog posts
  • Collage of South West leaders 2024 Jeanette Jones Jeanette Jones 17 Jan 2024

    Happy New year from your South West leadership team

    Your regional top team of elected members join your regional director in wishing you a Happy New Year and looking forward to 2024 from their own particular perspectives.

  • Vicky Brotherton, Chair of the ¿ìèÊÓÆµ Plymouth Branch Vicky Brotherton Vicky Brotherton 20 Sep 2023

    Get active – what does that even mean?

    I became ‘¿ìèÊÓÆµ active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ 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. 

  • Emma Hallam 800x400 Emma Hallam Emma Hallam 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 ¿ìèÊÓÆµ 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.

  • Black History Month ¿ìèÊÓÆµ logo - yellow, green and red background behind the three words and a white ¿ìèÊÓÆµ logo over black paintbrush-style background Lucy Muchina Lucy Muchina 24 Aug 2023

    Black History Month

    I recently attended an internationally educated nurses’ (IEN) event and was truly inspired by the amazing talent of our IENs.

  • Lisa Tomlinson, North Tees Hospital TNA in the second Teesside University cohort Paige Barsby Paige Barsby 21 Jul 2023

    Growing the nursing workforce

    I’m a practice facilitator supporting trainee nursing associates (TNAs) in Somerset, and my focus is on expanding my university’s current placements for our TNAs into social care.

  • Grace Chukwurah at ¿ìèÊÓÆµ Congress 2023 Grace Chukwurah Grace Chukwurah 21 Jun 2023

    A dream come true

    I used to see pictures of people attending events such as ¿ìèÊÓÆµ Congress on social media as a young nurse newly arrived from Africa and wish that could be me one day.