Nurse ensured our family had one last precious meal together

Promoting healthy sleep

Nancy Howard

Locating difficult veins for venepuncture and cannulation

Sally Jane Shaw

Managing tissue viability issues in patients with cancer approaching the end of life

Kenneth Robert Ripley, Mark Collier

An analysis of delegation styles among newly qualified nurses

Carin Magnusson, Helen Allan, Khim Horton, Martin Johnson, Karen Evans, Elaine Ball

How to carry out growth assessment in infants and children under two years old

David Hopkins, Alison Kyle, Siba Prosad Paul

A passion for continence care

Could you assess advanced level practice?

Lynne Pearce

Learn how to say ‘no’ to excessive overtime

Mandy Day-Calder

Where young men fear to tread

Daniel Cady

Student life - Giving the best start in life

Doreen Crawford

Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World: How to Create a Happy Life

Anne Boyle

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

Calum Meiklejohn

Peninsula Communications Skills

Layla Haidrani

Tweets of the week

Staff in care homes also work 12-hour shifts without a break

Denise Fleetwood

Give us a break

Diana De Lord

Replacing the human touch

Emma Walter

Few day rooms left in hospitals

Tony Sutherland

No PJs in the day room

Sue Young

De-stress in a green space

Matthew Bradby

The Great Smog of 2017 should be a wake-up call to government

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is the NMC right to regulate the nursing associate role?

Stephanie Cumming, Rachel Kent, Drew Payne, Daniel Athey

Give people with dementia a voice in discussions about sex

Wendy Perry

Combating the ‘silent killer’ that is hypertension

Viv Bennett

Beware of ‘lookalikes’

Matt Griffiths

State of child health in the UK is unacceptable

Judith Ellis

Show me where it hurts

Elaine Cole

New approach to restraint

Elaine Cole

Help patients cope with the financial toll of cancer

Lynne Pearce

Black women at higher risk of dying from cervical cancer

CBT is effective in treating all severities of depression

Bilingual people are better at managing dementia

Continuity of GP care reduces avoidable hospital admissions

Stress might increase risk of heart disease and stroke

Responding to a request to hasten death

Erin Dean

Universities speak out on fall in degree applications

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

Charging non-UK residents for care must not fall to staff, say unions

nursingstandard.com

Returner follows her daughter’s lead after 30 years away from nursing

Story in numbers

Suspended sentence for wrong blood type death

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Online tool targets better skills in end of life care

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Project aims to increase number of BME nurses at top

Nurse took his own life following dismissal from the job he loved, inquest hears

Widespread abuse of adults with learning disabilities

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Family support

Plenty to be proud of despite difficult times

Elaine Cole