Students - There is always a lesson to learn on a clinical placement

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Developing a career in nursing research

Appropriate care for people with learning disabilities

Telehealth brings benefits

‘I could not have survived without Kelly and her team’

Tom Owen

Nursing and Midwifery Council revalidation

Jackie Casagrande

Assessment of injury severity in patients with major trauma

Penelope Stanford, Nicola Booth, Janet Suckley, Timothy Twelvetree, Debbie Thomas

Assessment and accountability: part 3 – sign-off mentors

Trish Houghton

How to submit your revalidation application

Lyn Middleton, Denise Llewellyn

‘I love the variety of the role’

‘You have to explain the risks and benefits’

Ann Dix

Learning how to promote effective communication

Mandy Day-Calder

All patients deserve holistic care

David Morrissey

Student life - Twitter – a great medium for learning and debate

Kerry Pace

Headspace – Guided Meditation and Mindfulness Techniques

Layla Haidrani

Hidden Cameras: Everything You Need to Know About Covert Recording, Undercover Cameras and Secret Filming

Jane Buswell

Reflective Practice in Nursing (Third edition)

Fiona Barchard

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Pauline Goddard, Sally Voiter, Annie Lennox

Correction

District nursing is vital

Julie Bliss

Specialist complex care

Susan Oliver

Getting over the bursary blues

Holly Phillips

Learning can be a joy when others are willing to teach

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should personal use of illegal drugs be decriminalised?

Beverley Brathwaite, Linda Drake, Rachel Kent, Daniel Athey

What needs to change

Barbara Cannon

Building bridges in an uncertain world

Howard Catton

Organise a learning event and see the benefits

Zeba Arif

Revalidation is not a test

Richard Hatchett

Gardening your way to health

Mary-Claire Mason

Inside the fragile world of eating disorders

Catharine Sadler

Research round-up

Computer model sheds light on amyloid plaque formation

Patients with sleep apnoea and resistant hypertension at increased risk of heart disease

Rise in alcohol tax could cut violence-related A&E visits

Exercise as effective as surgery for common knee injury

Sickle cell disease

Erin Dean

The lasting legacy of #hellomynameis

Erin Dean

Around the world

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Call to boost peers with nursing background to House of Lords

‘Weak’ research undermines profession

Healthcare workers urged to improve hand hygiene to prevent spread of AMR

Length of service proposal to reduce student debt

Alistair Kleebauer

University of Salford’s £1.7m training facilities recreate real hospital environment

nursing.standard.com

Raising awareness with Sir Elton John

Story in numbers

Brexit could hit nursing regulator’s finances

Chris Longhurst

Rent crisis exposed as key workers hit with 20% hike

Erin Dean

News in brief

Nurse’s murder sentence is upheld

Staff told to ‘back off’ over allegations of surgeon misconduct – hearing told

Large tax rebates possible for thousands of nurses

Erin Dean

Star turn

Urgent action needed to address key worker housing crisis

Janet Snell