Sam Foster considers the need to create an environment where nurses feel speaking up will lead to change
Sam Foster considers ways of improving staff turnover, with pay and poor career progression being some of the reasons why nurses choose to leave the profession.
Sam Foster discusses the implications of the latest Budget for the nursing profession and nurse leaders.
Sam Foster considers the importance of recognising the gap between the care nurses want and strive to deliver and the realities of working in the increasingly pressurised environment of the NHS.
Sam Foster considers the problems involved in reducing patient care to staffing metrics.
Sam Foster considers a different way to think about leadership and workforce culture and why it may be especially relevant to nursing.
Sam Foster discusses what can be learnt from the Ockenden and Amos reviews and identifies challenges that all nursing leaders should consider, including the importance of listening to our staff.
Sam Foster considers how nursing leaders respond to their staff when they raise concerns, its effect on how they act and the overall patient safety culture that such responses create.
Sam Foster examines ways of approaching the first 90 days in a new position or when taking on different responsibilities, when making time to observe and listen is key.
Sam Foster discusses how nurse leaders can embed a proactive way of reflecting on patient safety incidents that leads to positive action to improve practice at a local level.
Sam Foster reflects on the reasons why nurses choose to stay in the profession - the other side of the coin to the ongoing discussions around why nurses are leaving.
Sam Foster reflects on creating supportive and collaborative teams, in which members feel able to speak up about concerns and how to deal with 'super chickens' - individuals whose behaviour challenges that culture.
Sam Foster reflects on the problem of aggression directed at nurses, why it needs to be taken as seriously as a patient safety event, and the role of leadership in reducing it.
Sam Foster discusses the importance of accountability, scrutiny and robust investigative measures throughout and beyond the whistleblowing process.
Sam Foster considers the proposed workforce plan for England and the issues affecting nurses around workforce safety, sustainability and professional wellbeing.
Sam Foster, considers how nurse leaders can embrace some of the mantras of a successful sports team to help them create purposeful, adaptable and empowered nursing teams.
Sam Foster discusses what nurse leaders can learn from examining the practices of other industries - those that aim to learn from mistakes rather than blame people for them - thus helping to improve patient safety.
Sam Foster, Executive Director of Professional Practice, Nursing and Midwifery Council, considers two reports examining nursing and midwifery workforce issues.
