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Managing a patient’s diabetic foot ulcer

01 February 2013

Primary Health Care

Art & Science

Preventing foot problems in people with diabetes has been a priority in the UK over the past ten years, but research highlighting a lack of specialist diabetes...

Co-ordination of supportive care needs in metastatic breast cancer

11 February 2014

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) play an important part in the delivery of care to patients with metastatic breast cancer in hospital and in the community; a...

Blooming marvellous

22 September 2009

Nursing Standard

General article

Staff at a rehabilitation unit have transformed an unappealing space into a therapeutic garden where patients can improve their physical and mental health.

Happier endings

17 January 2006

Nursing Standard

General article

A new initiative from the Department of Health aims to improve care at the end of life. This involves consulting patients and relatives about their needs and...

New roads to success

16 January 2007

Nursing Standard

General article

The government publication Modernising Nursing Careers forms the blueprint for the future of the profession throughout the UK. In the first of six articles, we...

Discharging patients from acute care hospitals

10 February 2016

Nursing Standard

CPD

Planning for patient discharge is an essential element of any admission to an acute setting, but may often be left until the patient is almost ready to leave...

A better death

10 May 2011

Nursing Standard

Features

The appalling care of patients at the end of life shown in a recent television documentary rightly shocked people. But, according to experts, this is no longer the...