Editorial EDITOR Nick Lipley Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3166 Email: [email protected] CONSULTANT EDITOR Debbie Mazhindu Reader in clinical nursing practice and innovation at Buckinghamshire New University and Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Gemma Ellis Consultant nurse in adult critical care, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Anastasia Mallidou Assistant professor, school of nursing, University of Victoria BC, Canada Ada ter Maten Nurse researcher, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Healthcare, Netherlands Niall McCrae Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London Jane Naish Deputy chief nurse and head of quality, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Natasha Phillips Assistant chief nurse, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and visiting research fellow, National Nursing Research Unit, King’s College London Elaine Strachan-Hall Governing body nurse, NHS South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group Donna Swinden Senior therapist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Ray Walker Director of nursing and secure services, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Liverpool Frances Wong Professor and associate dean, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Haiou Xia Professor at the school of nursing, Fudan University, China
Expect the unexpected Remember how I talked with such certainty last month about the unpredictability of the general election outcome? How differently things turned out from expected: the Conservatives back in, this time with a majority, humiliating defeats for Labour and the Lib Dems, and extraordinary gains for the Scottish National Party. Back in too is Jeremy Hunt as health secretary, but facing a combination of concerns and challenges that will be familiar to him and to senior nurses across the country: safe staffing levels, pay, health service reform and funding.
Acting assistant editor Jennifer Sprinks Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected] Senior production editor Julie Hickey Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3148 Email: [email protected]
As reported in this month’s Nursing Management, the government is also pushing ahead with plans for a seven-day NHS (page 6), one reason why the resolution to reject the proposed scrapping of unsocial hours payments at this year’s RCN congress, being held this month, is so important.
Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch BUSINESS UNIT Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 NURSING MANAGEMENT RCNi, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW
Lone working, workforce planning and stress at work are also among the resolution topics in Bournemouth, while matters for discussion include integrating care and the future of the four branches of nursing.
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NURSING MANAGEMENT
The resolution to reject the proposed scrapping of unsocial hours payments at this year’s RCN congress is so important
Nick Lipley Editor
There are a number of fringe events that will be worth following, including two events supported by RCNi: one on the race equality standard in practice and one on revalidation, a topic covered extensively on our website, at www.rcni.com I hope to attend the first of these and take part in a ‘meet-the-editor’ session scheduled for the Tuesday morning, though coverage of the main congress events will be available through the website, at www.rcn.org.uk With the new government just weeks old, RCN congress 2015 represents a significant opportunity for nurses to have their voices heard. Whether you are going to Bournemouth this month or following RCN congress online, let us know what you think as the themes unfold: by email at [email protected], through the RCNi management and leadership forum at rcni.com/hub/management-andleadership or on Twitter @EditorNM Which way the resolutions will go is something I am leaving for others to predict; I learned my lesson last month.
Our mission Nursing Management inspires and shares professional excellence in nursing leadership and patient care. The journal is editorially independent and opinions expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the policy of the RCN, nor that of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
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Expect the unexpected Remember how I talked with such certainty last month about the unpredictability of the general election outcome? How differently things turned out from expected: the Conservatives back in, this time with a majority, humiliating defeats for Labour and the Lib Dems, and extraordinary gains for the Scottish National Party. Back in too is Jeremy Hunt as health secretary, but facing a combination of concerns and challenges that will be familiar to him and to senior nurses across the country: safe staffing levels, pay, health service reform and funding.
Acting assistant editor Jennifer Sprinks Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected] Senior production editor Julie Hickey Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3148 Email: [email protected]
As reported in this month’s Nursing Management, the government is also pushing ahead with plans for a seven-day NHS (page 6), one reason why the resolution to reject the proposed scrapping of unsocial hours payments at this year’s RCN congress, being held this month, is so important.
Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch BUSINESS UNIT Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 NURSING MANAGEMENT RCNi, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW
Lone working, workforce planning and stress at work are also among the resolution topics in Bournemouth, while matters for discussion include integrating care and the future of the four branches of nursing.
Nursing Management is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: British Nursing Index, Medline and Ovid ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 6,523 (Jan-Dec 2013) SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT RCNi Journal subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG. Tel: +44 (0)345 772 6100 Print edition rates Personal: from £73 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional: from £495 a year Email: [email protected] ©2015 RCNi. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 1354-5760 (print). ISSN 2047-8976 (online) Printed by Stephens and George, Merthyr Tydfil, on acid-free paper Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCNi WEBSITE nm.rcni.com AUTHOR GUIDELINES journals.rcni.com/r/nm-author-guidelines OPEN ACCESS journals.rcni.com/page/authors/open-accessfrequently-asked-questions
NURSING MANAGEMENT
The resolution to reject the proposed scrapping of unsocial hours payments at this year’s RCN congress is so important
Nick Lipley Editor
There are a number of fringe events that will be worth following, including two events supported by RCNi: one on the race equality standard in practice and one on revalidation, a topic covered extensively on our website, at www.rcni.com I hope to attend the first of these and take part in a ‘meet-the-editor’ session scheduled for the Tuesday morning, though coverage of the main congress events will be available through the website, at www.rcn.org.uk With the new government just weeks old, RCN congress 2015 represents a significant opportunity for nurses to have their voices heard. Whether you are going to Bournemouth this month or following RCN congress online, let us know what you think as the themes unfold: by email at [email protected], through the RCNi management and leadership forum at rcni.com/hub/management-andleadership or on Twitter @EditorNM Which way the resolutions will go is something I am leaving for others to predict; I learned my lesson last month.
Our mission Nursing Management inspires and shares professional excellence in nursing leadership and patient care. The journal is editorially independent and opinions expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the policy of the RCN, nor that of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Follow us: @NMJournalRCN
Read more at: rcni.com
Visit us at: Nursing Management May 2015 | Volume 22 | Number 2
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