‘Kate always treated me as a person, as well as a patient’

Minor traumatic wounds

Emily Davis

Raising concerns and reporting poor care in practice

Robin Ion, Aled Jones, Richard Craven

Assessing and documenting fluid balance

Sarah Pinnington, Sarah Ingleby, Prasanna Hanumapura, Deryn Waring

Working in partnership with patients and carers

Lesley Baillie

‘Don’t be afraid of failure’

Shaping the future leaders of community nursing

Lynne Pearce

How to stay motivated over the festive season

Mandy Day-Calder

What it means to be a midwife

Indie McDowell

Student life - How to write a perfect essay

Kathy Oxtoby

Sea Hero Quest

Layla Haidrani

Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (8th edition)

Amy Pepper

Respiratory Nursing at a Glance

Rebecca Myatt

John Adams – an outstanding career

David Lewin

Tweets of the week

Students under pressure

Ali Horner

The pay cap is destroying morale

Elaine Blisset

The pay restraint is a false economy

A ‘valued’ profession?

Leigh Hughes

A ‘valued’ profession?

Leigh Hughes

Nursing ‘takes backward step’

Veronica Burton

Add some spice to ease creaking joints

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Do nurses need training to cope with rude colleagues?

Linda Drake, Drew Payne, Lauren Ferrier, Jane Brown

Consistency will save lives

Sonia Munde

Making international collaboration a priority

Crystal Oldman

Focus is on ‘our’ doctors

James Buchan

Banning care home visitors is a last resort

Joanne Strain

Recognising the nurses who show commitment to carers

Jen Kenward

Research: measuring the Brexit effect

Lynne Pearce

A better way to die

Mary-Claire Mason

Enhanced GP service effective in preventing diabetes admissions

Blood test could indicate best lung cancer treatment

Single episode of sleep apnoea compromises blood pressure

Impact of medication errors in nursing homes ‘surprisingly low’

Pre-teen behaviour issues less likely if dad adjusts to parenthood

Contraception

Erin Dean

Report reveals too many BME nurses – and men – are being referred to NMC

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Only half of stroke services have enough nurses

nursingstandard.com

RCN advises nurses on use of personal mobile phones for work purposes

Story in numbers

Morale at ‘all-time low’ for nurses in Scottish prisons

Erin Dean

Nurse apprentices ‘won’t solve workforce shortage’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Plans to train more clinician managers

Health secretary agrees nursing associate role should be regulated by the NMC

Concern over high number of older nurses struck off

Erin Dean

RCN centenary

Research into imbalance in NMC referrals welcome

Graham Scott