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GUIDE TO CPD

What Is the CPD Cycle?

27 August 2024

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What Is the CPD Cycle?

The CPD cycle is a tool that breaks up each learning activity and helps you measure the progression of your CPD.

27 August 2024

Feeling stuck in your healthcare career?

If you feel like you’re stuck in your career and don’t know what to do or where to go next, you’re not alone. Anyone can find themselves in that position, whether seasoned healthcare professional or not. While it may be uncomfortable, you don’t need to hang out there indefinitely.

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Keith Carlson

16 February 2024

Transformational Leadership - Being a Likeable Nurse Leader

Transformational leaders have gained attention in recent years for leading in a way that truly inspires teams. Being a genuinely 'likeable' person would be a surefire way to improve the support received from team members and colleagues. But, how does one become more 'likeable'’?

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Madeline Gilkes

09 February 2024

Is Your Inner Nurse Critic in the Back Seat?

When your inner nurse critic is constantly shouting at you from the back seat of your car, something has to change. The easiest solution is to simply hit the ejector seat button if you can, but if that fails, it’s time to talk back.

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Keith Carlson

02 February 2024

Reflective Practice as a Tool for Growth

Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on your actions and engage in a process of continuous learning. For nurses and midwives, it’s also a necessary activity to fulfil the requirements of periodic re-validation.

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Anne Watkins

26 January 2024

Nursing Leadership and Workplace Culture

There are many explanations for why nurses might resign from positions, change employers or leave the profession altogether; nurturing favourable workplace environments is a powerful way to support nurses in experiencing optimal career satisfaction and productivity.

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Keith Carlson

19 January 2024

Checking the Vital Signs of Your Nursing Career

There are a plethora of tools, strategies, and techniques for bringing sustenance to a nursing career that has lost its life force. Act before a crisis, intervene on a consistent basis, and your nursing career will never get to the point of no return. It’s worth it, and you’re worth it.

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Keith Carlson

12 January 2024

Re-inventing Your Nursing Career

When your life circumstances, safety, livelihood, longevity or health are threatened or called into question, that’s often a signal that some soul-searching may be on the horizon. No matter the event or situation, this can be both an exciting and anxious time.

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Keith Carlson

05 January 2024

Workplace Values

Working in harmony can depend on a number of variables. A great place to start when looking at promoting harmony amongst your colleagues is by establishing a set of values. Set workplace values provide a uniform road-map for work groups to conduct their everyday tasks with a common goal in mind.

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Janette Cooper

29 December 2023

The Curious Nurse Goes Far

One characteristic very much related to critical thinking that is not widely discussed but holds great importance for nurses is curiosity.

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Keith Carlson

22 December 2023

Your Healthcare Career and Mindful Productivity: Hitting the Bullseye

When you’re trying to advance your career, it can sometimes feel like you’re constantly throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. This is where mindful productivity comes into play, preventing the needless expenditure of energy you could otherwise be using more effectively.

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Keith Carlson

15 December 2023

From Associate to Ally: 5 Tips to Strengthen Your Professional Relationships

Work is simply more enjoyable when we have strong relationships with those around us. Given how much time we spend at work, and how stressful working in healthcare can be, it makes sense that we would want our work relationships to be fulfilling.

08 December 2023

Updating and Empowering Your Nursing Resume

What’s the state of your resume, and would you feel confident using it tomorrow if a great opportunity came along? Most career specialists recommend updating your resume at least once a year no matter what, so what are you waiting for?

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Keith Carlson

01 December 2023

Clarity of Purpose and the Nurse’s Future

The clarity of purpose you experienced after completing your studies can be very empowering and energising, but what happens when that sense of clarity fades, and you feel adrift and without a clear direction?

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Keith Carlson

24 November 2023

Workplace Culture - What to Do in a Toxic Situation

Toxic workplace cultures have the ability to hinder personal and professional growth, resulting in aspirations that can’t be realised and self-esteem that slowly gets eroded. Try to stay strong, keep yourself at a level above the goings-on, and ride the rapids, because there’s calm waters ahead.

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Christine Suter

17 November 2023

You’re Never 'Just' a Nurse

When a nurse says they’re just a nurse, they’re insinuating that their contributions are unimportant. This form of self-deprecation does nothing to keep nurses’ worth in plain view. Nurses should not squander their stature as arbiters of health and well-being by demeaning themselves or one another.

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Keith Carlson

10 November 2023

The Price of Incivility is High - Incivility in the Workplace

We have to learn what it means to be respectful and courteous. That is why workplace values matter. Workplace values need to be visible in the workplace. If we are to reduce incivility in the workplace, we all have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

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Janette Cooper

03 November 2023

Trusting Your Nursing Intuition

As a nurse, you’ve learned many skills throughout the course of your education. Some are considered ‘hard’ skills and others are often characterised as ‘soft’. One so-called ‘soft’ skill that can’t really be taught is learning to tune into, listen to and trust your nurse’s intuition.

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Keith Carlson

27 October 2023

Your Nursing Career: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum

You earn degrees and certifications, care for patients, engage in continuing education, take part in research and otherwise move your career forward in inspiring ways. In the final analysis, the whole of your professional life is certainly greater than the sum of its parts.

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Keith Carlson

20 October 2023

Becoming a Three-Dimensional Candidate

Create a three-dimensional portrait of yourself that will make a potential employer fall over themselves to bring you on board.

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Keith Carlson

13 October 2023

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