Nursing Standard Podcast

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RCN general secretary Janet Davies reacts to the Autumn budget and Nursing Standard podcast heads to Wales to hear about safe staffing and proposals for carers to train to become nurses.

Episode 6 also discusses calls for healthcare assistants to be regulated, defence nursing and the new RCNi Career Guide.

As usual the episode starts with a news round-up from the previous week.

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News: 0-13 mins

Janet Davies: 13-25.30 mins

Tina Donnelly: 25.30-52.11mins

Careers Guide: 52.11 to end.

Host: Matthew Mckew

Music: Sam Tyler

Produced by: Nursing Standard and RCNi

Episode 5 of Nursing Standard Podcast features the story of Sam Morrish, a three-year-old boy who died of sepsis. His mother Sue speaks of his final 24 hours.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust chief nurse Eamonn Sullivan is also on show, talking about an innovative overseas exchange programme for nurses, the Capital Nurse cancer passport, nursing associates and more.

In this week’s news section, reporters Chris Longhurst and Matthew Mckew discuss 12 hour shifts and new staffing legislation in Wales.

Time Stamps:

News 2:20 to 16:00

Eamonn Sullivan (Royal Marsden) 16:00 to 39:23

Sue Morrish (on sepsis) 39:30 to 53:34

Sarah Neill (on sepsis) 53:35 to 55:30

Presented by Matthew Mckew

Music by Sam Tyler

Produced by RCNi and Nursing Standard

Nursing Standard Podcast Episode 4 features Mary Seacole Trust chair Trevor Sterling, discussing the legacy of the trailblazing nurse and the statue dedicated to her.

Sheffield Hallam University's professor of nursing Laura Serrant shares her moving poem You Called and We Came and Nursing Management journal editor Nick Lipley discusses apprenticeships for nurses looking to progress.

The episode also includes a nursing news round-up by Chris Longhurst.

Presented by Matthew Mckew

Music by Sam Tyler

Produced by RCNi and Nursing Standard

‘Give it away and have a healthy one,’ was the abhorrent advice given to a mother of a child with learning disabilities in the 1930s, according to a speaker at the recent Learning Disability Practice conference in Manchester earlier this month.

The third episode of the Nursing Standard Podcast discusses how attitudes towards people with learning disabilities have since changed.

Following the usual news section, reporter Matthew Mckew interviews speakers from the conference on changing perspectives, ageing, palliative care, chemical restraint and more.

Presented by Matthew Mckew

Music by Sam Tyler

Produced by RCNi and Nursing Standard

Former health minister Norman Lamb MP is this week's Nursing Standard Podcast guest.

He joins reporter Matthew Mckew to discuss pay, funding, mental health and Brexit.

Also on the episode:

- A round up of news

- Research on graphic visualisation

Music by Sam Tyler

The Nursing Standard Podcast launches with its first episode, featuring RCN head of nursing policy and practice Dame Donna Kinnair. N.B: There is a segment where the presenter says Mr Hunt has announced 5,000 new apprenticeships, this was a slip of the tongue and should have referred to the 5,500 nursing associates announced by the health secretary.

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