Prime minister urged to re-examine safe staffing.

Nursing leaders have pressed new prime minister Theresa May to re-examine key issues affecting the profession as a matter of urgency.

Safe staffing legislation will change behaviour, says RCN Wales director.

Soaring spend on agency nurses in Wales could be cut if minimum staffing levels are introduced in hospitals, Welsh Assembly members have been told.

Nurse leaders' experiences of implementing regulatory changes in sexual health nursing practice in British Columbia, Canada.

Most research about regulatory policy change concerning expanded nursing activities has emphasized advanced practice roles and acute care settings. This study is a contribution to the small pool of research concerned with regulatory policy implementation for nurses undertaking expanded nursing practice activities in a public health context. Using the regulatory changes in certified nursing practice in one Canadian province as our starting point, we investigated the experiences of nurse leaders in implementing this change. Using a qualitative interpretive descriptive approach informed by tenets of complexity theory, we examined the experiences of 16 nurse leaders as situated within the larger public health care system in which nurses practice. Two interrelated themes, (a) preparing for certification and (b) the certification process, were identified to illustrate how competing and contrasting demands between health care and regulatory organizations created substantial barriers to policy change. Implications for health service delivery and future research are discussed.

A review of basic patient rights in psychiatric care.

Although patient rights is a concept that all nurse managers need to be aware of, this concept often becomes confusing when applied to patients undergoing psychiatric treatment. It is important for the nurse manager to understand the basic rights that psychiatric patients are entitled to, to best be able to help staff nurses under his/her supervision to protect these rights. The nurse manager on a psychiatric unit often serves as a reference for staff nurses, and even for physicians, when questions regarding patient rights present themselves. The nurse manager should be certain to discuss these issues with the facility's legal and risk management team to be aware of particulars of the law of the state in which the facility is located, as state laws may differ somewhat in their treatment of psychiatric patients.

Conducting the employee selection interview: how to do it effectively while avoiding legal obstacles.

Employment interviewing as it is known today is an essential process but one fraught with potential traps and legal pitfalls. On balance, it is a far-from-perfect means of selecting employees, but it remains the best such means available. Effective interviewing requires thorough preparation, including knowledge of how to seek out the most helpful kinds of information available; complete information about the position as it presently exists; and detailed knowledge of what kinds of questions can or cannot legally be asked. Effective interviewing also depends on the development of one's ability to seek out intangible information as well as factual information and use all that is learned, recognizing that the well-cultivated "gut feel" is fully as important as "facts" in evaluating an employment applicant.