Developing effective and caring nurse-patient relationships

Rebecca Feo, Philippa Rasmussen, Rick Wiechula, Tiffany Conroy, Alison Kitson

‘Nothing was too much trouble for the nurse who cared for my mum’

Situation awareness

Lucy Ward

Community intravenous therapy provision

Sue O’Hanlon, Pam McGrail, Paul Hodgkins

How to promote patients’ sleep in hospital

Irene Gilsenan

‘Always listen more and talk less’

The good preceptorship

Lucy Gillespie

Mindfulness – part 3: don’t give up

Mandy Day-Calder

Riding the emotional rollercoaster

Charlotte Milliken

Student life - First steps into nursing

Barry Quinn

Live Wait Times

Layla Haidrani

When Breath Becomes Air

Lisa Berry

Perioperative Practice Case Book

Tracey Radcliffe

Tweets of the week

Not under my PIN

Jessica Carpenter

Community-based solutions

Donato Tallo

Accreditation not the issue

Michael Owen

Follow suit on ‘PJ paralysis’

Theresa Brennan

Watch out for the impatient patient

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Do nurses have a duty to set an example and quit smoking?

Jane Brown, Drew Payne, Jane Scullion, Linda Drake

Patients with myeloma need more time to ask questions

Angela Watts, Christine Protheroe

NMC is well equipped to regulate the new nursing associate role

Dame Janet Finch

Brexit is not only factor in EU nurse downturn

James Buchan

EU nurses deserve to be told they can stay

Joan Pons Laplana

Cancer drug decision: ‘NICE should take more account of quality of life’

Jennifer Trueland

At the vanguard of quality patient care

Alison Moore

An alternative to costly clinics

Kinta Beaver

One-off screening test cuts risk of developing bowel cancer by a third

Severe gum disease may be a sign of undiagnosed diabetes

Education no protection from age-related memory decline

Extreme deprivation in childhood can affect adult mental health

Eating five a day cuts COPD risk in former and current male smokers

Police use of restraint in mental health and learning disability settings

Layla Haidrani

Limited prescribing powers for newly qualified nurses?

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Poor job conditions, not pay, behind switch to agency work for many

nursingstandard.com

Cancer diagnosis forcing nurses to seek financial help from hardship charity

Vital signs

Government rejects call for NHS assaults law

Chris Longhurst

More senior BME nurses on agenda for new chief

Matthew Mckew

News in brief

‘Burning platform’ warning for NHS

Accommodate spiritual and cultural wishes during patients’ final days, nurses urged

EU nurse figures in decline long before Brexit vote

Matthew Mckew

NHS protest

New education standards could strengthen nurses’ standing

Graham Scott