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Nursing textbooks need to inform about spirituality

Ways to develop numeracy and calculation skills

Uncovering the real Broadmoor

Sarah’s support has helped me to tackle my eating disorder

Jade Long

In-hospital resuscitation

Christine Mason

Using the British National Formulary effectively

Ann Bellerby, Deborah Susan Needham

Supporting students in practice: leadership

Debbie Barry, Trish Houghton, Tyler Warburton

How to assess vision

Janet Marsden

Valuing mental health staff

‘My band 8 role keeps me close to patients’

Lynne Pearce

Doing night shifts: the good, the bad and just coping

Kathy Oxtoby

Observing nurses has improved my alcohol dependency care

Ellise Jaques

Student life - A multisensory approach

Mandy Day-Calder

Dermofit

Layla Haidrani

Emergency Nursing at a Glance

Jenny Jenkins

The Biological Basis of Mental Health (Third edition)

Nigel Wellman

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

David Ditchfield, Stephen Taylor

New idea for student funding

Shannon O’Hare

Crisis in emergency care

Gary J Jones

Nothing to fear from CQC

Donato Tallo

Hanging on the hospital telephone

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is the BMA playing politics in the junior doctors’ dispute?

Kent Rachel, Jane Scullion, Grant Byrne, Drew Payne

Supporting blind veterans

Sue Tansey

Health visiting cuts only save problems for later

Janet Davies

Is it okay to buy an essay online?

Marc Cornock

District nursing needs to be thrown a lifeline

Anna Charles

Succeed at the confirmer stage of revalidation

Erin Dean

On the right track

Alison Whyte

A roadmap for mental health

Alison Moore

Irregular heartbeat associated with wide range of serious events

Near-infrared light could detect early cancer signs

‘Evidence for binge drinking pill does not justify cost to NHS’

Taking vitamin D could halve the risk of asthma attacks

Economic crisis prompts rise in suicides and mental ill health

Managing obesity in adults and children

Lynne Pearce

Trusts are struggling to retain chief nurses

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

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Support is in decline for families affected by abuse

nursingstandard.com

Nurse-led end of life care centre could save the NHS £350,000 each year

Story in numbers

Pension opt-out scheme ‘immoral’, say unions

Alistair Kleebauer

‘Come back’ letter sent to 54,000 former registrants

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Staff cuts leave FGM vulnerable ‘exposed’

Ebola nurse ‘relieved’ after NMC clears her of misconduct in airport screening process

Mentors ‘manipulated, even threatened’ by some students

Alistair Kleebauer

A banner year

Our exclusive survey of nurse directors reveals worrying turnover statistics

Graham Scott