Role of patient education in postoperative pain management

Brynja Ingadóttir, Sigridur Zoëga

District nurse’s dedicated care enabled our son to die at home

Resuscitation equipment

Rose Gallacher

Improving communication with families in the intensive care unit

Deborah Briggs

‘Establish trusting relationships’

Be part of the future

Lisa Grant

How to take the strain out of moving jobs

Mandy Day-Calder

Observing the best of care

Ewout van Sabben

Student life - Fast track into nursing

Lynne Pearce

Excellent Dementia Care in Hospitals

Nicky Hayes

Helping Children to Tell about Sexual Abuse: Guidance for Helpers

Raymond McMorrow

A Perioperative Model and Framework for Practice

Tracey Radcliffe

Tweets of the week

@alisonlearyl, @Andy_Bell_, @nutritionlizA, @MarkHayterl, @stpjjf, @RachelBurnham

Nurses just need decent pay

Martin Baxter

Make return to practice easier

Michelle Mills

We are being put at legal risk

Tobias Savage

A year in and I want to quit

Robert Chambers

Comfort of intimacy is denied

Linda Elisabeth Billinger

Give leaders clear structures

Stephen Taylor

Why don’t people use the phone any more?

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is it unprofessional for nurses to have tattoos?

Pete Hawkins, Drew Payne, Jane Brown, Stephanie Cumming

We can all help maximise organ donation opportunities

Lucy Dames

2020 is too late to solve nurse staffing crisis

Susan Osborne

Vacancies at all time high

James Buchan

Women are dying early from drug misuse

Ian Hamilton, Katharine Sacks-Jones

Outdoor spaces improve dementia care

Jennifer Trueland

Nurses lead the way with webcam consultations

Lynne Pearce

Singing their way to better health

Jennifer Trueland

Overweight and obese people deemed healthy have higher heart attack risk

Workload and low morale are puting new GPs off the NHS

Polycystic ovary label may cause women needless distress

Female HCAs have higher than average rheumatoid arthritis risk

Some video games can shrink the brain, while others may enlarge it

Hepatitis B vaccine shortage

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Student drop-out rates put profession at further risk

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

Returner programme for allied health staff follows nurse scheme success

nursingstandard.com

Staff take to the streets at carnival time to support Grenfell community

Story in numbers

Alert over nurses working in bars to make ends meet

Flavia Munn

School nurses reveal the extent of ‘period poverty’

Christine Walker

News in brief

NHS career support for whistleblowers

Colleagues mourn the sudden death of chief nurse whose legacy is better care

A quarter of nursing degree students quit their courses

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Hurricane Harvey

Shameful silence over the attrition rate for nursing students

Graham Scott