Morale in nursing students: A priority for nurse retention

For the first time in recent years, the number of nurses and midwives in the UK leaving the Nursing and Midwifery Council register has exceeded those joining. Fort-five per cent more registrants left than joined between 2016 - 2017, the majority of whom were aged under 40 (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2017). It is not surprising that pay and working conditions topped the reasons for leaving, but while these issues have an important role in...