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Where will you nurse next?

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The emergence of a new breed of private employers like nursing homes, long-term care organizations, charity-run hospitals, and mental health services and the companies who have won the contracts in the first wave of the independent sector treatment centre programme to give treatment for NHS patients are opening up new employment opportunities for the nurses. The nurses will have a rising number of employers and can have job changes in and out of NHS, which would be beneficial to the patients as well as the nurses.

Labor force information, Employment, Nursing services

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Equip us to care

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Nurses surveyed by Nursing Times reveal severe shortages in necessary medical supplies throughout the British National Health Service. Patient care is suffering from the lack of up-to-date equipment. Nursing Times is leading an effort to get the British government to increase funding for medical supplies.

Market information - general, Facilities & equipment, Medical Instruments and Supplies, Medical Instruments & Equipment, Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing, Equipment and supplies, Supply and demand, Cover Story, Surveys, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Nursing, Medical equipment, Nursing Times (Periodical), Physiological apparatus

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Forget heroics, its the little things that count

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A nurse who works in the accident and emergency unit at a hospital in London describes his work. Nurses who want to specialize in emergency nursing must be prepared for a rapid pace and possible violence and aggression. Benefits of emergency nursing includes the wide variety of patients and ailments.

Personal narratives, Vocational guidance, Nursing specialties, Emergency nursing

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