Nursing Standard

19/09/2026

How many of these wound care beliefs are still influencing practice today?

• Wounds should be dry
• Wounds should be sterile
• Wound swabs diagnose infection
• Slough is a sign of infection
• Wound dressings heal wounds

Read the article to find out > https://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/cpd/cpd-focus-a-critical-examination-of-five-common-wound-care-myths-ns.2025.e12521/full

18/09/2026

Band 5s in charge: what happens when nursing roles are substituted?

There is mounting evidence of the extent to which registered nurses are being substituted by less qualified or unregistered colleagues.

Click here to read more > https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/analysis/band-5s-charge-what-happens-when-nursing-roles-are-substituted-223926

18/09/2026

Health visitors claim they have been ‘vilified’ by their NHS employer on social media after rejecting a one-off £5,000 payment to end their six-month strike over pay banding.

The nurses have been matched at a Band 7 in a job evaluation, which the NHS board have refused to honour.

The health visitors say they have been ‘vilified’ after rejecting a £5k pay-off

17/09/2026

Pay win: An NHS trust has U-turned on flat rate bank shift payments and returned to paying its nurses according to their substantive AfC pay band.

One of the largest NHS employers in north west England has agreed to pay nurses who work extra shifts their normal rate of pay after they objected to being paid less for bank work. Find out which trusts have made similar changes and who will be affected

17/09/2026

A nurse has been suspended from practice after refusing to start CPR because she judged the patient to be dead, without undertaking a proper assessment.

Experienced nurse admitted ‘serious error’, having failed to carry out proper assessment

16/09/2026

Sleeping on shift breaks: workplace rules versus the reality

Working nights usually means fighting fatigue, so what are the rules on napping on breaks, if you even get them, and why is there a stigma about on-duty sleep?

Read more here > https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/analysis/sleeping-on-shift-breaks-workplace-rules-versus-reality-223901

15/09/2026

Taking and recording a manual blood pressure: a guide for nurses

Manual blood pressure measurement is a vital nursing skill and part of the NMC’s proficiency standards.

Read expert advice on taking and recording a reading manually.

https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/students/how-to-take-and-record-a-manual-blood-pressure-223336

15/09/2026

Repeated and serious safeguarding failures by a chief nursing director and nursing managers could have allowed Lucy Letby to harm more babies the Thirlwall Inquiry has found.

Judge blames nursing leaders and executives for failures that could have let Letby harm more

15/09/2026

How much do you pay for parking where you work?

A Nursing Standard investigation shows the huge variation in workplace parking fees for nursing staff across England and the UK, with some trusts charging more than £100 a month.

The workplaces on this list are among the most expensive to park based on charges for a band 5 nurse.

https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/analysis/revealed-areas-with-highest-staff-parking-fees-for-nurses-222606

14/09/2026

Nursing fundamentals: when did mobilising patients to the toilet become a matron-led special initiative?

Frailty and medical complexity, insufficient staffing, lack of time, overreliance on continence pads: is this why the battle against incontinence and deconditioning is so hard to achieve?

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