Talking about sexual health

Health care in prisons

Excel-based scheduling for reallocation of nursing staff

Talking and learning about bowel cancer

The role of tea in hydration

Nurse arranged everything so that I got the specialist care I needed

Understanding reflective practice

Sue Wrigglesworth

Assessment and management of patients with minor traumatic wounds

Joseph Bonham

Non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention of venous thromboembolism: a literature review

Esther Hanison, Kevin Corbett

How to suture a wound

Joseph Bonham

‘Hard work brings its own rewards’

What to consider when you want to join a union

Erin Dean

How to improve your decision-making

Mandy Day-Calder

Compassion in action

Poppy Butler

Student life - Shine a light on your stress

Lauren Ferrier

ABC of Diabetes (Seventh edition)

Neesha Oozageer Gunowa

Fast Facts: Hypertension (Fifth edition)

Alison Crumbie

Breast Check Now

Layla Haidrani

Produce a positive strategy for whistleblowing

Gordon Lees

Keep the conversation going

Amanda Burston

Tweets of the week

Nurses do a fantastic job

Jillian Halley

No one in this profession is 'just a nurse'

Ellen Lord

Professional patient-centred care is what counts

Krystal Marie Howard

Where rationing leads, patient guilt will follow

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Are healthcare assistants doing ‘nursing on the cheap’?

Byrne Grant, Daniel Athey, Jane Brown, Liz Charalambous

Design a different response

Caroline Shuldham

Creating a social movement for health

Viv Bennett

An unworkable plan

James Buchan

Parkinson’s audit is a call to action for nurses

Jacqueline Young

Getting serious about prevention

Jamie Waterall

‘You do what’s required to keep the patient at home’

Ann Dix

Filming the dangers of smoking

Julie Danby

School sex education often ineffective and heterosexist

Higher use of psychotropic drugs among people with Alzheimer’s in their nineties

Short conversation with nurse trained in smoking cessation can double quit rate

Widening gap between cervical cancer screenings safe for some

Depression more likely in women who take hormonal contraception

Pregnancy loss and the death of a baby

Erin Dean

Transgender training and knowledge left to chance

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

Noticeboard

Nurses have the local knowledge needed to integrate health and social care

nursingstandard.com

TV documentary celebrates life and work of pioneering nurse Mary Seacole

Gossip can help to stop poor care, claims study

Chris Longhurst

Story in numbers

Carer access to dementia patients the ‘seventh C’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Boost for perinatal mental health

No evidence to justify different pay awards among staff groups, says NHS Employers

Training places to double for nursing associate role

Kat Keogh

Royal accolade

Staff gossip tells managers what’s really going on

Graham Scott