Inspiring nurse advised me to set my anxieties aside to help my daughter

Understanding the link between obesity and diabetes

Beverley Bostock-Cox

Chronic heart failure: part 1

Lorna Young

Use of dexmedetomidine infusion as a sedative drug for patients in the intensive care unit

Nelson Selvaraj

Fifty-seven years and counting…

Moving from city to country can be a shock

Karen James

Coping with the stress of a major incident

Mandy Day-Calder

Making personal experience count

Nicola Mattocks

Student life - Handling negative feedback

Mandy Day-Calder

Cigbreak Free: Game to Quit Smoking

Layla Haidrani

The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer

Hazel Heath

Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas

Karen Harrison

Tweets of the week

Autism spectrum network

Chris Barber

Don’t meddle with mentors

Dana Rose

Pet therapy?

Grant Byrne

Pets would be such an asset

Natasha Louise Manton

Pay caps not confined to NHS

Deborah Moussous

How we eat dictates our overall well-being

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Do fees deter mature students from applying for courses?

Beverley Ramdeen, Drew Payne, Rachel Kent, Linda Drake

Prioritise the safety of people with dementia who go missing

Zena Aldridge

Fair blame, not no blame

Matt Griffiths

Scrap the cap or we will ballot RCN members on strike action

Janet Davies

How to free patients from the tobacco trap

Hazel Cheeseman

Transforming the care of patients with heart failure

Alison Whyte

Consistent sepsis care

Elaine Cole

Spread the word about research

Carol Davis

Extra insulin after meals may curb cardiovascular disease in diabetes

Swearing can ease social hurt as well as physical pain

Causes of major birth defects still largely unknown

Excessive internet use causes blood pressure rise and anxiety

Expressive writing may help wounds to heal faster

Spotting the signs of domestic slavery

Erin Dean

Processing tragedy: the aftermath of Grenfell Tower

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

New toolkit for recording the public health impact of care

nursingstandard.com

Whistleblowers urged to share their experiences with National Guardian

Suffolk trust to test Dutch community care model

Chris Longhurst

Story in numbers

Top nursing universities fall short in new ratings

Erin Dean

News in brief

RCN ‘summer of protest’ begins

May’s initial offer to EU citizens in the UK welcomed as ‘a step in the right direction’

Team praised for terror response

NHS reviews fire safety procedures at its buildings

Chris Longhurst

Recognition

Summer of protest is our best chance to scrap the cap

Graham Scott