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Developing therapeutic relationships with patients

Prevention initiatives to tackle the Zika virus

Spotting early onset dementia

Anna’s compassion brought us some much-needed normality

Elina Nupponen

Limb amputation

Rebecca Keown

Identifying residents at risk of care complications in care homes

Ate Dijkstra

Open Access An evaluation of the NHS England Youth Forum

Lisa Whiting, Sheila Roberts, Jenni Etchells, Kath Evans, Alice Williams

How to use intentional silence

Douglas Kemerer

Passionate about quality

Choosing the right time to change jobs

Erin Dean

Respect patients – even if you disagree with them

Mandy Day-Calder

Experience of first placement motivated me to help others

Jason Jeffrey

Activism can help your career

Layla Haidrani

App review: Meningitis – Know the Symptoms

Laila Haidrani

The Drug Conversation: How to talk to your child about drugs

Lindsey Hayes

Whistle Blowing and Ethics in Health and Social Care

Claire Lanfear

Tweets of the week

Empathy for Pauline Cafferkey

Striking support

Jade Blackburn, Joanne Mapes, Angharad Williams, Clare Dory Rogers, Christopher Neil

Where are the regulators in this?

Susan Osborne

Taking a nap is the new white-knuckle ride

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should we ditch the pay review body in favour of direct negotiation?

Jane Scullion, Liz Charalambous, Drew Payne, Rachel Kent

Why it is time to ditch the ‘therapeutic relationship’

Steve Flatt

Ensuring better births for women in England

Jane Cummings

Putting policymakers in the picture

James Buchan

Nurse leaders are vital to reconfiguration

Nicky Hayes

Maintaining quality around the clock

Julie Penfold

The right stuff nurses who become chief executives

Alison Moore

How your date of birth may determine your gluten tolerance

Why female junior doctors don’t want to be surgeons

Advice about exercise should be given early after diagnosis

Locked doors do not help patient well-being in mental health units

Pokémon app craze gets children back on their feet

Oral health for adults in care homes

Erin Dean

A steep mountain to climb

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Around the world

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Nursing staff play key role in preventing suicides, says leading nurse

nursingstandard.com

DH launches FGM resources for healthcare professionals on YouTube

Story in numbers

Call for extra secondary breast cancer nurses

Alistair Kleebauer

District nursing surviving on workforce’s ‘goodwill’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Scottish NHS ‘good’, but too few staff

Greater leadership, autonomy and flexibility predicted for nurse of the future

Nurses to ‘go extra mile’ during junior doctors strike

Chris Longhurst

Alight here

District nurses deserve better support to ensure safe care

Graham Scott