‘Calm, compassionate Paula helped me through severe depression’

Self-management of diabetes

Olatunde Ajayi

Promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours and well-being among nursing students

Patsy McSharry, Fiona Timmins

Admiral Nursing: case management for families affected by dementia

Karen Harrison Dening, Zena Aldridge, Amy Pepper, Ceri Hodgkison

‘Don’t be afraid to ask questions’

Recognition for advanced nurse practitioners

Lynne Pearce

Faith and spirituality: how to remain professional

Mandy Day-Calder

Making life and death decisions

Duncan Hamilton

Student life - How to choose the right branch of nursing

Kathy Oxtoby

HeadMeds

Layla Haidrani

Becoming a Nurse: Fundamentals of Professional Practice for Nursing (Second edition)

Brian Lucas

Infection Prevention and Control at a Glance

Marlene Hay

Tweets of the week

Correction

Training for little gain

Lauren Asker

Does your MP back fair pay?

Zeba Arif

Extreme care on AIDS wards

Jackie Hunt

I’m just a girl who can’t say no... or yes

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Does delivering sub-optimal care take an emotional toll?

Rachel Kent, Steve Flatt, Jane Scullion, Jane Brown

Reducing mental health stigma is not enough

Ian Hulatt

Helping community nurses get back on their feet

Crystal Oldman

Can my boss force me to have the flu jab?

Marc Cornock

Keep up the pressure to scrap the pay cap

Josie Irwin

‘At last we are delivering a gold standard service’

Tamsin Newton Snow

Parents know best in infant hip screening programme

Angie Lee

Pay checks: the true value of the review body

Lynne Pearce

Thyroid hormone treatment can reduce risk of pregnancy loss

Weight training sessions helps improve diabetes management

Heavy alcohol use in teenage years alters brain activity

Smoking cessation services can also help improve mental health

Distress linked to higher risk of death from some cancers

Mental well-being and independence for older people

Lynne Pearce

‘Nursing is in crisis and we desperately need this pay rise’

Erin Dean, Chris Longhurst

Around the world

Noticeboard

Routinely ask older people about falls, new guidance says

nursingstandard.com

Nurse grasps opportunity to return to work thanks to bionic hand

Story in numbers

Ward patients urged to get up, dressed and mobile

Matthew Mckew

Degree applications drop highlights ‘bleak outlook’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Emergency pressures in NI ‘intolerable’

Study examines whether specialist district nurse qualification increases assertiveness

RCN takes firm stance on advanced nurse accreditation

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Royal recognition

RCN sets the bar high for advanced nursing status

Graham Scott