Acknowledging personal grief

Why I love my job

Big picture

Treading the boards with clinical nursing students

Managing good hydration care requirements

How a nursing sister helped when my baby’s heart stopped beating

Risks of moving and handling

Geisla Patrick

Intravenous cannula site management

Nicola Brooks

How to use PRICE treatment for soft tissue injuries

Cormac Norton

Role of care pathways in interprofessional teamwork

Minimol Kulakkottu Scaria

Going the extra 200 miles

Keeping community nurses safe from harm

Dean Gurden

How to support a colleague

Mandy Day-Calder

Punch from a patient led to correct diagnosis

Charlotte Lara Hall

Student life - Steer clear of cheating

Lynne Pearce

My Health Guide

Layla Haidrani

The Health Debate (Second edition)

Debbie Quinn

Dad’s Not All There Any More

Ruth Sander

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Paul Nix, Milly Mans Ashwell

Nurses and the obesity plan

Stephen Thomas

The best job in the world

Saffron Brown

Advice for new students

Helen Rees

Readers’ panel - Has the #hellomynameis campaign changed NHS staff?

Jane Scullion, Daniel Athey, Liz Charalambous, Jane Brown

What’s in a name? Esoteric lingo speaks volumes about nurses

Jane Bates

Time to ditch the cliché image

Ian Hulatt

The erosion of safe staffing and the nursing voice

Susan Osborne

Should I appear in a marketing video?

Marc Cornock

Be open with patients about life after cancer

Dany Bell

Blazing a trail

Alison Whyte

A new approach to alcohol misuse

Kerry Lyon

Pain profiling could improve quality of life for older people

Exercise helps tackle schizophrenia symptoms

Impaired sense of smell linked to dementia risk

Research links Zika virus to severe joint condition at birth

A&E fails to detect delirium in advanced cancer patients

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Lynne Pearce

Fate of specialist degrees hangs in the balance

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

Noticeboard

nursingstandard.com

Star shines a spotlight on Alzheimer’s, as new map reveals care inequalities

Longest-serving rep has seen nurses’ goodwill ‘exploited’

Story in numbers

High demand for nursing places after A-level results

Alistair Kleebauer

Government plan for nurses to tackle obesity

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Better language test for non-UK staff

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey accused of concealing high temperature

Poster fame

Call for front line nurses to replace A&E doctors

Chris Longhurst, Flavia Munn

Government must act now to prevent looming winter crisis

Graham Scott