Undertaking effective handovers in the healthcare setting

Helen Ballantyne

Nurse’s compassionate approach went above the call of duty

Chronic heart failure: part 2

Lorna Young

Reflection on the dual-field adult and child nursing degree course

Natacha Pauline Kalbfuss, Lauren Jayne Deanus

How to set up and administer an enteral feed via a nasogastric tube

Carolyn Best

‘Always persevere and innovate’

‘I never expected to be offered a job on the spot’

Lynne Pearce

Raising concerns: do the right thing

Mandy Day-Calder

Acts of kindness can change lives

Ana Sofia Pereira De Oliveira

Student life - Problems with your mentor?

Mandy Day-Calder

Babee on board

Layla Haidrani

Dementia Care: A Practical Approach

Nichola Barlow

Depression: A Very Short Introduction

Mark Haddad

Tweets of the week

Letter

Amy Jones

Prescribing pressure

Donna Bagheera Nicholson

Blood test success

Karin Crimmins

Showing the strain

Leanne Basra

Hard to shift

Susie Mints Carty

Letter

Hannah Butler

First to help, but last in line

Lynne Dick

Blessings that banished boils

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Are nurse leaders failing to fight for safe staffing?

Drew Payne, Daniel Athey, Liz Charalambous, Lauren Ferrier

Smear test slump risks lives

Marianne Wood

WHO director-general’s address marks a major moment for nursing

Howard Catton

Putting a price on care

James Buchan

Rules are forcing nurses to attempt futile CPR

Marc Cornock

Support grows for ‘essential’ HIV prevention drug

Jennifer Trueland

‘I was not prepared to let them go through it alone’

Elaine Cole

Recruitment rethink: getting the right nurse in the right role

Erin Dean

Alternative chemotherapy drug offers better quality of life

Weight problems linked to poor oral hygiene

Follow-up mammograms slower for Asian women

Study findings support recent reduction in safe drinking limits

Recovery position makes it harder to spot breathing difficulties

Gout

Erin Dean

‘Settled status’ does little to allay fears of EU nurse exodus

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

No movement on promised 10,000 extra nurse training places in NHS

RCN queries Scottish plans to increase staff numbers

nursingstandard.com

Story in numbers

Northern Ireland U-turn on nurse training budget

Chris Longhurst

Nurses quitting register faster than those joining it

Matthew McKew

News in brief

Patients Association appoints new head

Emergency teams join together to create courses teaching advanced nursing skills

Government faces mounting pressure to scrap the pay cap

Matthew McKew

With nurse numbers down, policy makers must act before it’s too late

Graham Scott