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Physical health screening for people with mental illness

Weight management for children with severe obesity

UK nurses are needed overseas

Compassionate care improved my physical and mental health

Arthur Carr

Neutropenic sepsis

Tracie Jones

Fibromyalgia: clinical features, diagnosis and management

Jennie Walker

Non-suicidal self-injury: clinical presentation, assessment and management

Katie Dhingra, Parveen Ali

‘Nursing is a privileged role’

Meet award-winning HIV nurse specialist Gary Barker

Jacqui Thornton

Finding the right person

Erin Dean

Despite all my training, nothing prepared me for a patient’s death

Mark Weetman

Student life - When laughter is the best medicine – and when it is not

Mandy Day-Calder

Constant Therapy

Layla Haidrani

An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma

Norman Young

HypnoBirthing

Patricia Jarrett

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Sue Young, Roisin McAllister

Clinical trial involvement

Marion Evans, Pauline Boyle, Karen Hylton

Demise of district nursing

Alexandra Murrell

Animal magic in tending the sick

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Given the NHS funding crisis, will rationing become the norm?

Liz Charalambous, Stephanie Cumming, Grant Byrne, Edwin Chamanga

HIV: an integrated approach

Jason Warriner, Michelle Croston

Shaping the future of regulation

Dame Janet Finch

How wages compare

James Buchan

Staffing levels law will bolster the front line

Jean White

Celebrating the nursing degree pioneers

Jennifer Trueland

From nutrition to co-production

Alison Whyte

Deliver twins at 37 weeks to give them the best chance

Antipsychotics double risk of pneumonia in Alzheimer’s

Drug limits heart damage in childhood chemotherapy

Exercise can offset the risks associated with alcohol intake

Whole brain radiotherapy ‘has no effect’ in patients whose lung cancer has spread

End of life care

Lisa Berry

Without reporting, FGM remains a hidden crime

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

Noticeboard

‘We need to step back and say losing the bursary could be the right way to change nurse numbers’

nursingstandard.com

You work in a neglected area of health, NHS chief tells community nurses

Story in numbers

Trust dangles carrot of cheap rent for jobseekers

Alistair Kleebauer

Scheme will accredit advanced-level practice

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

HCAs do ‘nursing on the cheap’

NHS England launches consultation on acceptable value of gifts to staff

Funding cuts for CPD put NHS changes in danger

Alistair Kleebauer

Pedometers

Advanced nursing scheme will give recognition where it’s due

Graham Scott