‘My well-being is due to the support and care of this dedicated team’

Discharging patients

Bing Raz

Understanding and responding to severe and enduring patient distress resulting from episodes of healthcare

Linda Kenward

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: recognition and treatment

Alexander Donnelly

Pulse oximetry: what the nurse needs to know

Rebecca Myatt

Find yourself a suitable mentor

Learn how to shape policy

Lynne Pearce

Make the most of your annual appraisal

Mandy Day-Calder

Consent and care go hand in hand

Charlotte Callow

Student life - Student to newly qualified nurse: finding out who’s who

Jessica Ross

Natural Cycles, Birth Control & Ovulation Calc

Layla Haidrani

HIV in Primary Care (Third edition)

Jason Warriner

Law and Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare: An Introduction (Second edition)

Maureen Benbow

Tweets of the week

Agency shifts top up low pay

Kai Ellis

Take a break?

Marianne Cranwell

The problem with breaks

Laura Lily Needham

Rock bottom is right

Jan Thomas

True cost of placements

Quick action a credit to NHS

Sue Young

Keeping complaints in perspective

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is there a need to improve the image of nursing?

Linda Drake, Lauren Ferrier, Graeme Macpherson, Duncan Hamilton

Patients have a right to know the results of research

Rachel Taylor

Don’t forget the extraordinary work of district nurses

Crystal Oldman

Mixed messages

James Buchan

‘Earn as you learn’ won’t devalue the profession

Sally Garbett

The nursing innovators who are improving quality of care

Alison Whyte

Who will be this year’s Patient’s Choice?

Bereaved by suicide

Alison Whyte

Physical activity in childhood starts to decline long before adolescence

Risk of death lower for older people who are also parents

Tooth loss may increase risk of developing dementia

Nurse-led model boosts uptake of type 2 diabetes treatment

Pelvic fracture linked to higher risk of dying in older people

Head and neck cancer

Lynne Pearce

Freedom to speak up: extra protection for whistleblowers

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

nursingstandard.com

Fresh hospital food is reserved for staff rather than patients, report finds

Have your say in district nursing caseloads consultation

Story in numbers

Military families are a ‘hidden homeless group’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Anger over agency shifts ban for NHS nurses

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

Attrition higher with off-campus living

Nurses will ‘continue to bear the brunt of austerity’, as pay cap remains in Scotland

Education review lead backs compulsory preceptorship

Matthew Mckew

Emergency response praised

Five worthy finalists for our Patient’s Choice award

Graham Scott