We must be open and honest

Hand washing

Storyboarding used as an aid to explore grief

New leadership model for learning disability nursing

Changing approach to psychological trauma

Delivering a message of hope

Developing nursing care plans

Robin Hooks

Gastrointestinal care for older people

Penny Tremayne, Penny Harrison

Practical guidance on undertaking a service evaluation

Pam Moule, Julie Armoogum, Emily Dodd, Anne-Laure Donskoy, Emma Douglass, Julie Taylor, Pat Turton

How to record and evidence practice-related feedback for revalidation

Lyn Middleton, Denise Llewellyn

‘I enable students in difficulty’

Feel-good posts outside the NHS offer job satisfaction

Vacancy boom encourages nurses back onto the wards

Dean Gurden

Daunting placement challenged me to change my perspective

Adam Beales

The first port of call

Lynne Pearce

Adult Drug Calculations UK

Layla Haidrani

Working with Dual Diagnosis: A Psychosocial Perspective

Mark Holland

Person-Centred Approaches in Healthcare: A Handbook for Nurses and Midwives

Karen Dutton

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Dana Rose, Stephen Taylor

Don’t exclude students

Colin Phillips

We need abuse training for all

Bekki Lloyd

RCN must flex its union muscles

Mike Travis

Making time for people at the end

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Does the NHS provide a positive working environment?

Drew Payne, Liz Charalambous, Rachel Kent, Edwin Chamanga

Go to the top for rapid action

Sharon Mason

Losing nurse advisers is the final nail in the coffin

Susan Osborne

How to deal with bullying in the workplace

Zeba Arif

Top tips for reflection

Ruth May

The vital work of RCN reps

Lynne Pearce

On the road to positivity

Alison Moore

‘You’re looking well!’

Jennifer Trueland

Research round-up

Patient information could be misleading

Study sheds light on cancer diagnoses

Eating wholegrain foods may reduce the risk of cancer

ADHD drug use levels off after 18-year boom

Delayed discharge

Daniel Allen

Call for unity on safe staffing

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

Noticeboard

NHS ‘must ensure’ nurses are competent in basic English

nursingstandard.com

Magic the Labrador trained to sniff out low blood sugar levels

Palliative care still viewed as ‘giving up on a patient’

Hannah Flynn

Story in numbers

College demands better children’s cardiac care

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Stepping Hill killer appeals sentence

NMC hearing finds nurses who falsified records did so under orders from bosses

Alistair Kleebauer

Brexit may not affect recruitment from EU

Brexit vote prompts warning over bursary

Chris Longhurst

Memorial to Mary Seacole unveiled

Seacole statue is a triumph for hope over hate

Graham Scott