Care homes are becoming learning hubs

Increasing breast cancer awareness

Identifying high-risk older patients quickly

Endocrinopathies after childhood cancer

The effects of witnessing violence

‘Nurse convinced me not to give up’

The British National Formulary

Donato Tallo

Assessing acute and chronic pain in children and young people

Rebecca Saul, Judy Peters, Elizabeth Bruce

Nursing students’ experience of practice placements

Kathleen MacDonald, Kirstie Paterson, Jessica Wallar

How to set up and use a Twitter account professionally

Meriel Chudleigh, Ray Jones

Partnership working gets results

Island life is calling: make the move to Guernsey

Erin Dean

How to work collaboratively with patients to enhance care

Mandy Day-Calder

What it’s like to be a ‘loved one’

Jemma Lenkowiec

Student life - Coping when a patient dies

Mandy Day-Calder

Vaccines in Pregnancy: MatImms

Layla Haidrani

A Clinician’s Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act (Fourth edition)

Eleanor Sherwen

Ebola: Behind the Mask. A True Inside Story of the Outbreak

Neil Wigglesworth

Tweets of the week

Spectacular speech

Rowena Melleney

It's a struggle as a student nurse

Gemma Wells

State of salaries

Philippa Lloyd

Same role, different name

Matthew Osborne

Stand up for your rights

Susan Osborne

When the telephone makes life harder

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should doctors give the NHS 4 years after graduation?

Rachel Kent, Jane Scullion, Drew Payne, Lauren Ferrier

Sleepwalking into a crisis

June Andrews

We must convince the government to invest in the health workforce

Howard Catton

Is it okay to record presentations?

Marc Cornock

Draconian restrictions on visitors help no one

Amanda Cheesley

Nursing at the highest level

Elaine Cole

The right move

Diane Hindson

Smoking and drinking in children linked to parental absence

Exercise helps ward off memory decline in older people

Depression can shorten lung cancer survival rates

Higher coronary heart disease risk for women in poor areas

Don’t expect nurses to be role models for healthy behaviours

Harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people

Erin Dean

Nurses urged to get the flu jab

Flavia Munn

Around the world

Noticeboard

RCN to pilot accreditation for advanced level nursing practice

nursingstandard.com

Musicians swap notes with stroke service to relieve patients’ symptoms

Story in numbers

Nurses can help the fight against modern slavery

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Staff turn to loans and food banks, says Unison

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Specialist nurses boost survival

Crisis response team is keeping over-65s out of emergency departments

Stephanie Jones-Berry

NMC reveals continued rise in fitness to practise referrals

Alistair Kleebauer

Leadership

Money saved by the NMC’s new approach to hearings should be used to lower fees

Graham Scott