The level 5 diploma is a huge milestone in enrolled nursing's journey. The future of enrolled nursing depends on the health sector committing to employing diploma graduates as ENs.

Some district health boards are embracing ENs in their skill mix but others remain resistant. Is the EN workforce at a tipping point and is the lack of workforce planning to blame?

Is caring innate, or can it be taught, like other essential nursing attributes such as communication?

An experienced nurse brought to her knees by intolerable workplace stress, describes her journey back to strength and how she is now a better advocate for nurses an patients.