‘Rebecca made us feel that she was fighting for our daughter’

Identifying learning styles

Grace Hughes

Enabling patients to manage altered body image

Bob Price

Developing person-centred practice in hip fracture care for older people

Jane Christie, Maureen Macmillan, Colin Currie, Gerardine Matthews-Smith

How to care for a patient’s eyes in critical care settings

Janet Marsden, Richard Davies

‘I love having the time to talk’

‘In palliative care we help children make memories’

Elaine Cole

Reflect on your successes in 2016

Mandy Day-Calder

Giving someone the ‘right’ death

Tristan Crombie

Student life - Your first clinical placement: prepare well and ask for help

Beverley Ramdeen

One You Drinks Tracker

Layla Haidrani

Inside of Me

Irene Mabbott

The Nurses of Steeple Street

Valerie McGurk

Tweets of the week

When badges are no help

Annie Horn

Let’s hear it for 12-hour shifts

Tabitha Williams

I’m not a computer person

Michael Owen

Are NHS recruitment issues to blame?

Phil McAndrew

Shambolic staffing has a price

Pauline Goddard

’Tis the season to be jolly

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should sugary drinks be banned from NHS hospitals?

Liz Charalambous, Jane Scullion, Drew Payne, Steve Flatt

Fall in screening risks lives

Gill Burgess

We must develop NHS leaders of the future

Jane Cummings

Time to raise a glass?

Marc Cornock

Students buy essays as they can’t afford to fail

Daniel Dennehy

From The Boss to The Big Short: highlights of 2016

Patient’s Choice Award – a chance to say thank you

Elaine Cole

Helpline nursing

Lynne Pearce

Lack of supporting evidence for claims about fertility treatments

Benzodiazepine use increases risk of hip fracture in people with Alzheimer’s disease

No proof that vitamin D supplements prevent disease

Cut intake of saturated fats to stave off coronary heart disease

Beginning testosterone treatment increases risk of blood clots

Coeliac disease

Lynne Pearce

What will 2017 hold for the nursing profession?

Review of 2016: A year of challenges and triumphs for nurses

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

Nurses come top in survey of trustworthiness

nursingstandard.com

Paloma Faith sings the praises of NHS staff after the birth of her child

Story in numbers

Health visitors feel brunt of ongoing budget cuts

Kat Keogh

UK could train nurses abroad to fill NHS posts

Flavia Munn

News in brief

Posthumous degree for ‘inspiring’ student

Community staff told: surrender some of your AfC terms if you want to keep NHS pension

Using online essay mills ‘may put patients at risk’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Midwives on a mission

Accentuate the positive: nursing’s challenge for 2017

Graham Scott