The go-to podcast for nurses discussing the issues that matter most to nurses and patients.
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Nursing against the odds: practical ways to support your well-being at work
Is it possible for nurses to truly excel in a system that seems stacked against them? In this week’s podcast episode, Clare Cable and Kate Greenstock – authors of Flourish: Thriving as nurses against the odds: a practical and emotional guide – discuss why and how they believe nurses’ careers can succeed, even in challenging circumstances.
The pair also offer simple practical tips [from 29:13 minutes into the episode] on how nurses can protect their well-being – and nurse managers can support themselves and their teams – and start to make positive changes in their workplace.
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14 Oct 2026
Nil by mouth: what’s the latest best practice for nurses?
Are traditional, so-called ‘nil by mouth’ practices damaging to patients?
In this episode of the Nursing Standard podcast, University of Gloucestershire senior nursing lecturers Rachel Jefferies and Leigh Crossland discuss best practice in fasting – and why some nurses may be following outdated guidelines.
They talk about the need for a person-centred approach to preoperative fasting, balancing nutrition, hydration and other factors against worries about aspiration.
Ms Jefferies and Mr Crossland are the authors of a Nursing Standard CPD article on this subject, Preoperative fasting practice: optimising surgical patients’ food and fluid intake (https://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/cpd/preoperative-fasting-practice-optimising-surgical-patients-food-and-fluid-intake-ns.2026.e12643/abs).
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2 Oct 2026
Rate your shift: how live feedback improves nurses' working lives
What if there was an app on your phone where you could flag work issues directly to your manager on every shift? And then your manager acted to make changes?
Nurses Olivia Crossing and Annie Taylor launched the Rate My Shift app (https://www.ratemyshift.app/) to allow staff to give feedback to managers at the end of every shift via an emoji with a particular expression, capturing how they feel at the end of each working day. After rating the shift, they are prompted to give feedback on anything from staffing levels and missing supplies to even a broken kettle.
In this episode of the Nursing Standard podcast, the nurses discuss the motivation behind their idea and how the process has made them better managers. They also talk through examples of workplace improvements that have been made possible via the Rate My Shift app (https://www.ratemyshift.app/).
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Lisa Rickers
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Suman Shrestha
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