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Nursing Agencies Directory in UK

Nursing agencies employ nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing assistants, and supply their services to private patients as well as hospitals, clinics and other medical providers.

Nursing Jobs

In the UK, nursing agencies primarily serve the private sector. Many nurses who work a 37.5 hour week for NHS, may work extra hours for a nursing agency that provides nursing staff to private patients or on a contract basis to private healthcare centres. Nurses focus their attention on the patient, including physical health needs, anxieties generated by injury or illness, as well as the patients' families. Nurses may work in hospitals, hospices, schools, prisons, in surgries, in industry, the armed forces, or in patients' homes.

Nursing Specialties

Jobs for specialty nurses are often part of the offerings of nursing agencies. For example, nurse-midwives are in demand as are paediatric nurses. Other nursing specialties include intensive care nursing, surgical nursing, psychiatric nursing, geriatric nursing, and neonatal nursing. Many nursing specialties are recognized in UK. Advanced nurse specialists such as family nurse practitioners, who act as a primary care provider under supervision of a physician, and nurse anaesthetists, are always in demand.

Rapid Changes in the Nursing Profession

Rapid changes in nursing, and in healthcare in general, are coming about due to scientific and technological advances, as well as economic pressures and healthcare costs. Nurses must be decision makers, and often are responsible for a number of patients. They may write care plans, and confer with patients who are involved in their own health care management. Nurses must be experienced with computerised health records, and must make careful observations and assessments of patient progress, and make changes in care plans as needed.

Nursing Continuing Professional Development in UK

Continuing professional development programs are available in critical care, emergency nursing, infection control, oncology nursing, palliative care, community health visiting nursing, respiratory care, inter-proffesional health and social studies, clinical nursing, mental health studies, family health, tissue viability, diabetes care.