Macmillan nurse made sure my husband was not in pain

Reflective practice

Clare Rogers

Developing and maintaining compassionate care in nursing

Amanda Henderson, Jenny Jones

Exploring the use of student-led simulated practice learning in pre-registration nursing programmes

Jo Brown, Guy Collins, Olivia Gratton

How to administer lidocaine in wounds

Jeanette Welsh, Graham Rowe

Make the most of opportunities

Ensuring the voice of nursing students is heard

Joleen McKee

How to optimise your health and well-being

Mandy Day-Calder

Choosing the right path

Deborah Ayocele

Student life - Get your finances in order

Claire Cannings

The Dementia Diaries

Sue Paxton

Female Mutilation: The Truth Behind the Horrifying Global Practice of Female Genital Mutilation

Sonia Hall

Rapid Emergency and Unscheduled Care

Mike Brady

Tweets of the week

Holding onto our workforce

Annemarie Horn

BME staff

Stephen Taylor

BME issue bigger than the NHS

Marie Lilette

Pay nurses what they are worth

Elise Palmer

Put pay rise ahead of inquiry

Annique Simpson

Compassion in clinical skills

Linsey Sheerin

Use your enthusiasm and commitment to make a big impact

Jane Cummings

Know your competence

Marc Cornock

We flew by the seat of our pants in the 1970s

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - What can be done in reduce the student attrition rate

Drew Payne, Ewout van Sabben, Beverley Ramdeen, Rachel Kent

The future of nursing is in your hands

Janet Davies

Students must speak out about poor care

Erin Dean

The future’s bright

Lynne Pearce

Leading from day one

Lynne Pearce

Single people lack confidence in their ability to cope with bowel cancer

Exercise could benefit women with postnatal depression

High carbohydrate intake worse for health than fat

Community support needed for patients with dementia

Three additional years of education cuts heart disease risk

Emergency department standards

Erin Dean

Can the goal of gender balance ever justify a men-only bursary?

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

Noticeboard

nursingstandard.com

Nurses’ ward knowledge makes them ideal agents for change, says NHS medical director

Nurses who helped after terror attacks and Grenfell fire win praise for response

Story in numbers

Forty high achievers to begin fast-track training

Chris Longhurst

Award will boost careers of ‘outstanding’ nurses

Matthew Mckew

News in brief

MPs to investigate nursing shortage

Nurses use Twitter campaign to urge RCN to take a global view of representation

Retirement party

Unions make direct appeal for above-inflation pay rise

Flavia Munn

Your perspective as a student can change nursing for the better

Zoe Butler