‘Siobhan has helped me regain a good quality of life with diabetes’

Diabetes

Heather Lovitt

Chronic heart failure part 1: pathophysiology, signs and symptoms

Rebecca Brake, Ian David Jones

Using drawings as a reflective tool to enhance communication in dementia care

Phil McEvoy, Sue Bellass

How to remove an indwelling urinary catheter in female patients

Alison Bardsley

‘Always go with your instincts’

Why become a clinical nurse educator?

Alison Dinning

How to cope with staff shortages

Mandy Day-Calder

The therapeutic bond is so powerful

Georgina Mercy

Get the most out of your practice placements

Mandy Day-Calder

My Pancreas

Layla Haidrani

Dying for a Drink: All You Need to Know to Beat the Booze (Second edition)

David B Cooper

The Art and Science of Aging Well

Iain Atherton

Students should befriend their library staff

Victoria Killington, Angela Perrett

Student essays

Krista Barzee

We need our Admiral Nurses

Tweets of the week

Praying for patients

Julie Sutton, Nicola Macey

Associate move is about years of poor decisions, not improving care

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is the nursing associate role undermining graduate nurses?

Jane Scullion, Rachel Kent, Daniel Athey, Lauren Ferrier

Stopping unnecessary deaths

Annie Young

New education models must not take us back

Janet Davies

Boarding school rules

Matt Griffiths

Cuts to CPD funding undermine nursing

Sheila McQueen

RCN Nurse of the Year 2016: ‘Award win will open doors’

Elaine Cole

‘Staff want to address cultural issues, but don’t know how’

Elaine Cole

Female students more likely to have suicidal thoughts than males

Psychotropic drugs increase risk of falls in nursing homes

Women in Catholic countries are less likely to breastfeed

Smokers under 50 have eightfold increased risk of heart attack

Racket sports stave off death better than swimming or aerobics

Preventing falls in hospital

Lynne Pearce

New year set to bring new routes into nursing

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Real-terms pay down almost 9% for nurses and midwives

nursingstandard.com

More care at home is the best way to meet patients’ needs, says chief nurse

Story in numbers

Seacole campaigner made a dame in honours list

Christian Duffin

Guidance on safe staffing shies away from set ratio

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Fresh warnings over nurse shortages

Stories of George Michael’s generosity and appreciation for nurses pour in

Surge in number of NHS staff applying to retire

Erin Dean

Protest for those caring for civilians in Syria

Retirement crisis warnings becoming a reality

Graham Scott