Matthew Osborne
@matthew0sb0rne.bsky.social
Registered Nurse: Interests and experience include ED and urgent care, trauma, plastics, spinal surgery, advanced practise, nursing science, digital technologies, and education.
It’s hard to read this without thinking about nursing in the UK.
When universities slip into “survival mode” for nursing this means cutting back on staff time, pastoral support, digital infrastructure, equipment, learning spaces and genuine partnership with students, engagement inevitably drops.
When universities slip into “survival mode” for nursing this means cutting back on staff time, pastoral support, digital infrastructure, equipment, learning spaces and genuine partnership with students, engagement inevitably drops.
“Understanding the distinct experiences of diverse groups of students (e.g. apprentices, online learners and commuter students) is of critical importance” wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
Student engagement does not work if institutions are stuck in survival mode
During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
wonkhe.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s hard to read this without thinking about nursing in the UK.
When universities slip into “survival mode” for nursing this means cutting back on staff time, pastoral support, digital infrastructure, equipment, learning spaces and genuine partnership with students, engagement inevitably drops.
When universities slip into “survival mode” for nursing this means cutting back on staff time, pastoral support, digital infrastructure, equipment, learning spaces and genuine partnership with students, engagement inevitably drops.
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"Axing nursing specialist fields could cost lives." 💬
In the wake of University of Nottingham’s plans to suspend two nursing courses, nursing student Kaammilah reflects on the impact of these decisions, and the often unrecognised value of nurse education.
Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/4ioMz9L
In the wake of University of Nottingham’s plans to suspend two nursing courses, nursing student Kaammilah reflects on the impact of these decisions, and the often unrecognised value of nurse education.
Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/4ioMz9L
University of Nottingham nursing course cuts 'could cost lives' | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing
Nursing student Kaammilah says the university's plans to suspend two nursing courses is a workforce crisis in the making
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Axing nursing specialist fields could cost lives." 💬
In the wake of University of Nottingham’s plans to suspend two nursing courses, nursing student Kaammilah reflects on the impact of these decisions, and the often unrecognised value of nurse education.
Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/4ioMz9L
In the wake of University of Nottingham’s plans to suspend two nursing courses, nursing student Kaammilah reflects on the impact of these decisions, and the often unrecognised value of nurse education.
Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/4ioMz9L
It’s interesting that the Chancellor has pledged “more nurses” in the Budget.
But that optimism sits uneasily alongside what we know: that recruitment to nursing is collapsing and intake to training programmes is falling sharply @rcn.org.uk @nursingstandard.bsky.social
But that optimism sits uneasily alongside what we know: that recruitment to nursing is collapsing and intake to training programmes is falling sharply @rcn.org.uk @nursingstandard.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s interesting that the Chancellor has pledged “more nurses” in the Budget.
But that optimism sits uneasily alongside what we know: that recruitment to nursing is collapsing and intake to training programmes is falling sharply @rcn.org.uk @nursingstandard.bsky.social
But that optimism sits uneasily alongside what we know: that recruitment to nursing is collapsing and intake to training programmes is falling sharply @rcn.org.uk @nursingstandard.bsky.social
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I’ll give up my NHS pension on the same day politicians give up their perks...
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’ll give up my NHS pension on the same day politicians give up their perks...
The horror was real, and it had real-world consequences, with lives lost and lives changed.
It also had a cost to those of us working in health and social care, a price many are still paying to this day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It also had a cost to those of us working in health and social care, a price many are still paying to this day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The horror was real, and it had real-world consequences, with lives lost and lives changed.
It also had a cost to those of us working in health and social care, a price many are still paying to this day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It also had a cost to those of us working in health and social care, a price many are still paying to this day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Happy #NursingSupportWorkersDay! 🎉
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy #NursingSupportWorkersDay! 🎉
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
What an amazing young lady. With more children like her around, the future might not be as messed up as we all fear it might be!!!
www.tiktok.com/@cheeringfor...
www.tiktok.com/@cheeringfor...
Here’s a reminder from an actual 14 year old about what a child even IS. If adults are out here debating the “acceptable age” of abuse, then kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up. ✨sources✨ https:/...
TikTok video by eloise
www.tiktok.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What an amazing young lady. With more children like her around, the future might not be as messed up as we all fear it might be!!!
www.tiktok.com/@cheeringfor...
www.tiktok.com/@cheeringfor...
Ok... have they banned fairy tales, Santa, the easter bunny, basically anything with a whiff of fantasy or fun? At this rate, the school library is going to be reduced to a stack of laminated Psalms and a crate of colouring pencils.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/scho...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/scho...
Dorset Church of England school bans K pop Demon Hunters song to guard Christian ‘ethos’ | LBC
The film is rated PG and was watched 236 million times in its first three months of release
www.lbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ok... have they banned fairy tales, Santa, the easter bunny, basically anything with a whiff of fantasy or fun? At this rate, the school library is going to be reduced to a stack of laminated Psalms and a crate of colouring pencils.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/scho...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/scho...
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NHS staff on the frontline are being forced to plug gaps in services that should be filled by skilled managers and admin staff, according to a new report
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
NHS frontline staff forced to ‘plug gaps that should be ‘filled by managers’
Skilled clinical professionals are spending hours each week ‘chasing paperwork, managing rotas or navigating broke administrative systems’ says a new report
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
NHS staff on the frontline are being forced to plug gaps in services that should be filled by skilled managers and admin staff, according to a new report
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It doesn't say it on the website, but the members of the RCN Urgent and Emergency Care Forum national steering committee (of which I am a member) wrote this editorial.
To all my colleagues in UEC, please look after yourselves and each other this winter, not just your patients.
To all my colleagues in UEC, please look after yourselves and each other this winter, not just your patients.
Emergency care staff must look after each other this winter
Emergency care staff must look after each other this winter
journals.rcni.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It doesn't say it on the website, but the members of the RCN Urgent and Emergency Care Forum national steering committee (of which I am a member) wrote this editorial.
To all my colleagues in UEC, please look after yourselves and each other this winter, not just your patients.
To all my colleagues in UEC, please look after yourselves and each other this winter, not just your patients.
Last govt removed the need to publish nurse staffing.
They hid the problem.
The problem never went away.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
They hid the problem.
The problem never went away.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
FactCheck: Streeting ‘looking at’ publishing nurse safety data after our investigation
We fought NHS England for ten months to obtain these secret files.
www.channel4.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Last govt removed the need to publish nurse staffing.
They hid the problem.
The problem never went away.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
They hid the problem.
The problem never went away.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
Nurses might not be AT work, but they are never truly off-duty...
Off-Duty Mother-Daughter Nurses Use Belt to Save Trooper’s Life After Shooting
Two off-duty nurses used a makeshift tourniquet to save a Kentucky State Trooper after a shooting—proving nursing skills never truly clock out.
nurse.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nurses might not be AT work, but they are never truly off-duty...
One step closer to my next Journal publication on the assessment and management of massive haemorrhage in urgent and emergency care.
It is apparently harder to keep to a word limit in journal papers than it was as an undergrad student...
It is apparently harder to keep to a word limit in journal papers than it was as an undergrad student...
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One step closer to my next Journal publication on the assessment and management of massive haemorrhage in urgent and emergency care.
It is apparently harder to keep to a word limit in journal papers than it was as an undergrad student...
It is apparently harder to keep to a word limit in journal papers than it was as an undergrad student...
When you are a lecturer, technician or admin team in a university that does nursing, your "state of mind" varies wildly across the year...
So here is my month by month breakdown of the rollercoaster that my team and I will be going through this year:
So here is my month by month breakdown of the rollercoaster that my team and I will be going through this year:
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
When you are a lecturer, technician or admin team in a university that does nursing, your "state of mind" varies wildly across the year...
So here is my month by month breakdown of the rollercoaster that my team and I will be going through this year:
So here is my month by month breakdown of the rollercoaster that my team and I will be going through this year:
I really do love reading post-grad essays from those moving into advanced practice, but boy are they ever a challenge sometimes, especially for the independent prescribing qualification.
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I really do love reading post-grad essays from those moving into advanced practice, but boy are they ever a challenge sometimes, especially for the independent prescribing qualification.
There are days when I want to buy a farm and run a dog shelter, looking after all those dogs no one else cares for...
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
There are days when I want to buy a farm and run a dog shelter, looking after all those dogs no one else cares for...
A trust is nothing without their staff.
You treat them well, and they will bend over backwards to care for those who need it and then everybody wins.
You treat them well, and they will bend over backwards to care for those who need it and then everybody wins.
A large hospital trust has been downgraded by the health watchdog after staff told inspectors they ‘were not listened to’ by managers when they raised complaints about racism, bullying and harassment.
rcni.com/nursing-stan...
rcni.com/nursing-stan...
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A trust is nothing without their staff.
You treat them well, and they will bend over backwards to care for those who need it and then everybody wins.
You treat them well, and they will bend over backwards to care for those who need it and then everybody wins.
More crazy and stupid incitement to violence from TV presenters in the US after Jesse Watters, a FOX news anchor, says the US should bomb the UN over Trump’s broken escalator.
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
More crazy and stupid incitement to violence from TV presenters in the US after Jesse Watters, a FOX news anchor, says the US should bomb the UN over Trump’s broken escalator.
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1/ RFK Jr.’s promised autism “report” landed this week. Instead of new science, we got headlines, a press conference, and far-reaching claims drawn from decades of existing research. Parents and pregnant people were left with overwhelming anxiety. Here’s what the evidence actually says 👇
September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
1/ RFK Jr.’s promised autism “report” landed this week. Instead of new science, we got headlines, a press conference, and far-reaching claims drawn from decades of existing research. Parents and pregnant people were left with overwhelming anxiety. Here’s what the evidence actually says 👇
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The 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries
Calling all student nurses, midwives, nursing associates and apprentices, the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries. The deadline is Friday 12 December 2025. Don’t miss out!
www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...
Calling all student nurses, midwives, nursing associates and apprentices, the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries. The deadline is Friday 12 December 2025. Don’t miss out!
www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...
The 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries
Calling all student nurses, midwives, nursing associates and apprentices, the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries.
www.nursingtimes.net
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries
Calling all student nurses, midwives, nursing associates and apprentices, the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries. The deadline is Friday 12 December 2025. Don’t miss out!
www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...
Calling all student nurses, midwives, nursing associates and apprentices, the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards are now open for entries. The deadline is Friday 12 December 2025. Don’t miss out!
www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...
My sympathy to Mr Funnell's family on this matter.
But this is an interesting case I intend to bring to my students this coming term so they can discuss it - my hope is that they learn the lessons so they never experience the same
But this is an interesting case I intend to bring to my students this coming term so they can discuss it - my hope is that they learn the lessons so they never experience the same
A man who died after developing an ischaemic leg was not referred to a podiatrist, despite a tissue viability nurse’s recommendation.
The failure was a result of nursing staff’s lack of understanding of the issue, a coroner said.
rcni.com/nursing-stan...
The failure was a result of nursing staff’s lack of understanding of the issue, a coroner said.
rcni.com/nursing-stan...
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My sympathy to Mr Funnell's family on this matter.
But this is an interesting case I intend to bring to my students this coming term so they can discuss it - my hope is that they learn the lessons so they never experience the same
But this is an interesting case I intend to bring to my students this coming term so they can discuss it - my hope is that they learn the lessons so they never experience the same
Anyone else get frustrated at word limits in profesisonal publications?
I do get why they are there, but when you are writing an article and its *all* important, working out how to keep it in the limit is frustrating.
I do get why they are there, but when you are writing an article and its *all* important, working out how to keep it in the limit is frustrating.
September 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Anyone else get frustrated at word limits in profesisonal publications?
I do get why they are there, but when you are writing an article and its *all* important, working out how to keep it in the limit is frustrating.
I do get why they are there, but when you are writing an article and its *all* important, working out how to keep it in the limit is frustrating.
@universityofessex.bsky.social, rocking it at number 6 in the Guardian tables for nursing.
September 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@universityofessex.bsky.social, rocking it at number 6 in the Guardian tables for nursing.
Calling all UK nurses... What do you think about the NMC Code and the current process of revalidation?
Time to have your say:
www.nmc.org.uk/news/news-an...
Time to have your say:
www.nmc.org.uk/news/news-an...
NMC seeks initial views on the future of the Code and revalidation
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a survey giving professionals, students, employers and the public the opportunity to have their say on the future of the Code and revalidation
www.nmc.org.uk
September 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Calling all UK nurses... What do you think about the NMC Code and the current process of revalidation?
Time to have your say:
www.nmc.org.uk/news/news-an...
Time to have your say:
www.nmc.org.uk/news/news-an...