Conduct

Richard Griffith

Reducing harm from pressure ulcers

Robin Lewis

Preparing to implement the care certificate

Richard Griffin

Every day is a lesson in care

Maxine Armistead

Putting compassion first

Helen Bodlak, Catherine Hazleton

Open university offers HCAs a route into nursing

Jenny Knight

Smart start as apprentice

Carol Davis

News update

Courses & resources

Recognising one of a kind

Letso Rapoo

Student life - Highest praise for the nursing league-topper

Sheila Rodgers

Tips for staff in their first months

Grace MacDonald

Notice board

The best state to work in

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Complete tuberculosis treatment for all

Fever in children

Jennifer Preston

Improving care for people with learning disabilities

Sue Turner

Reducing medication errors

Christine Nute

Implementing supervisory status for senior charge nurses

Margot Russell, Clare McGuire

Tweets of the week

With revalidation, we must not be burdened with extra charges

Anna Burrows

Difficulties with numeracy need to be picked up early in training

Felicity Stockwell

Multi-tasking pressures take a toll on the continuity of care

Computerised assistance for ADHD testing is to be welcomed

Michael Owen

An enjoyable and rewarding career working in care homes

Liz Ledger

Nights will always be part of nursing, but don’t blame us for the problems

Lorna Young

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Stroke Risk Calculator app

Anila Virani

The Doctor’s Communication Handbook – Seventh edition

Valerie McGurk

Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care

Colin Parish

Disasters Emergency Committee

Roger Evans

The bright side of life

Paul Hodgkin

Make time for a rest

Marc Cornock

Starting out - Women’s refuge was an eye-opener on delivering family-centred care

Emily Norris

How you can help ‘stop the pressure’

Ruth May

Readers panel - Motherhood and mental health

Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Pamela Shaw, Craig Hopkins, Elsie Gayle

A phantom buzz

David Newnham

Weighty issue

Jane Bates

Inequality epidemic

Stephen Wright

Voices - Strategies may change but nurses will plough on, writes Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

We want you back

Erin Dean

Clean, dry and ready to start school

Clare Slater-Robins, Judith Potter, Becky Coxall, Jannice Simpson, Amber Begg

Ebola

Feelings of shame surround mothers struggling with breastfeeding issues

Patients cleared of coronary heart disease continue to have symptoms

Nursing students drink hazardous amounts of alcohol while at university

Children exposed in womb to sodium valproate show lower intelligence scores at school

Cognitive ability may decline after ten years of shift working

How is the government’s integrated care project faring?

Study casts doubt on the value of students’ previous care experience

Alistair Kleebauer

Memorial prize winner named

World in brief

Political notebook

Employers urged to sign up to healthy eating charter for staff

Take care with renal patients’ veins

Improving diabetes advice could reduce the need for amputations

Kat Keogh

News in brief

New nurses given opportunity to join leadership academy

Gadgets tempt men into weight loss

Nurses plead guilty to neglect

RCM chief challenges government to come back to negotiating table

Katie Osborne

New guidance advises staff on complaints process

Underfunding of workforce blamed for Essex incident

Midwives are in a position to ‘make a difference for generations to come’

Winter cash boost is ‘sticking plaster’ solution, RCN warns

Better discharge for older people could save the NHS £40 million

Katie Osborne

Rethink of future nurse education is needed

Graham Scott

News digest November 19 2014

News digest November 20 2014

Employers urged to sign up to Nursing Standard campaign

Sally Gillen

New end of life guidance for Scotland

Katie Osborne

News digest November 21 2014

Nurses in Wales to receive 1 per cent pay rise in 2015

Older people’s nursing champion named RCN Wales Nurse of the Year

Jennifer Sprinks

News digest November 24 2014

Don’t demonise overweight nurses, says obesity expert

Nurses and midwives stage second pay strike

Kat Keogh, Katie Osborne

News digest November 25 2014

1 per cent pay rise would be cheaper than paying midwives for their overtime

Report into clostridium difficile deaths at Vale of Leven reveals poor care and lack of leadership

Sally Gillen