Big picture

Olive oil’s extra benefits

What’s in a name?

When the toys take over

Teachable moments

Admiral Nurse’s support helps my mother avoid hospital admissions

Lisa Evans

Palliative and end of life care

Anne O’Reilly

In-hospital resuscitation: recognising and responding to adults in cardiac arrest

Elizabeth Simpson

Evidence-based practice: developing mentors to support students

Debbie Barry, Trish Houghton, Tyler Warburton

Changes do happen – but slowly

How to master the fine art of nursing politics

Lynne Pearce

Professional boundaries

Mandy Day-Calder

Monitoring fluid intake in mental health patients

Daniel Taylor

Student life - Inclusive approaches

Kerry Pace

Pill Reminder

Layla Haidrani

Book review: Self-Assessment in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Trauma X-rays (Second edition)

Mike Paynter

A Post-graduate’s Guide to Doing a Literature Review: in Health and Social Care

Ellie Forbes,

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Charlotte Walker, Deirdre Mulvenna-Pegrum

Help end the HIV epidemic

Liz Porter

Failed cancer targets

Emma Greenwood

Urgent attention required

Danielle Tiplady

Weeks after Brexit, our EU colleagues’ fate remains uncertain

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should service planners always prioritise safety and quality?

Pete Hawkins, Rachel Kent, Linda Drake, Edwin Chamanga

Hospices should be for all

Steve Jamieson

Degree-level education is an essential part of modern health care

Dame Janet Finch

Monitoring medication

Matt Griffiths

Learning to speak up about hospital failures

Dawne Garrett

Rise of the ANPs

Alison Whyte

Making hospitals safer at night

Caroline Chapman

EU study reveals extent of prescription drug misuse

Looking after your body clock could delay onset of back pain

Air pollution can shorten lives of patients with lung cancer

Volunteering in middle age linked to better mental health

Motivation and successful weight management programmes

Breast cancer

Lynne Pearce

Noise remains a big issue on hospital wards

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

nursingstandard.com

Nursing ancestry now easier to trace as RCN records are published online

Nurses help create family support rooms on older people’s care wards

Story in numbers

Post-Brexit racism must be quashed, says TUC

Alistair Kleebauer

Workers deserve 15% pay increase, says RCN

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

‘Worrying’ stress levels, poll finds

Fears for nursing staff future after A&E forced to close its doors at night

Rolex and cash among gifts given to NHS staff

Erin Dean

‘Sugar-bag baby’

The perils of nurses accepting gifts from their patients

Graham Scott