“To improve is to change” is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill from 1924, so round about a 100 years ago, and fits the mood very nicely at Nursing Times this week.
You will have hopefully noticed that we have significantly changed the look and feel of our website, with more articles on show and in a cleaner format, but with fewer distractions.
“I hope you find the Nursing Times website better looking, easier to use and more aligned with your professional needs”
We have also reorganised the site with the aim of making it easier for you to find more of what you want and more easily, to improve your overall user experience.
On the bar at the top of the website, you will see a new tab called Topics. This takes you to a menu of 47 different topic pages relating to a range of roles, settings and subjects familiar to nurses.
Each of these pages is designed to act as a one-stop-shop for our content on each topic, for example, cancer, cardiovascular, education or leadership.
This means that you can easily find all of our clinical practice articles, CPD, news, views and videos relevant to that topic in one place, plus any special series or supplements that we have produced.
We hope this chimes more with how you search for articles on subjects of interest to you, depending on your specialty, setting or role.
Recognising the importance of the next generation of the profession, we are continuing to give our content tailored for students a high profile on the website.
But in recognition of the challenge of transitioning from education, we are also giving our content for newly registered and early career nurses a higher profile, with a new place on the top menu bar.
Among the new features are six fast-track boxes near the top of your screen, which take you through to some of our most popular topics pages without the need to search for them or use the menu.
And of course, don’t forget Ask Nursing Times, our new artificial intelligence-driven research tool that searches the website in seconds to answer your questions on nursing.
As you would expect from Nursing Times, there is more to come, and I will soon be able to tell you about another exciting initiative that we plan to roll out over the coming weeks.
Therefore, in a nutshell, I hope you find the Nursing Times website better looking, easier to use and more aligned with your professional needs. Have a look around, either on mobile or desktop.
Nursing Times may have looked very different back in 1924, when Churchill was speaking in the Commons. In fact, you can find the exact print copy dating from then in our online archive.
Nursing Times has evolved and changed in tune with supporting the needs of nursing, and continues to do so as we enter a new period with ever more exciting opportunities offered by technology.