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Nurses lead the way in patient-centred end of life care

Creativity should not have an upper age limit

Occupation therapists and their role in weight control

How texting can improve self care

Our community nurse supports the whole family through tough times

Christina Vazquez

Preventing CAUTIs

Lucy Ward

Effective design, implementation and management of change in healthcare

Belinda Allen

A work-based learning approach for clinical support workers on mental health inpatient wards

Philip Kemp, Moorene Gilding, Khooseal Seewooruttun, Hannah Walsh

How to manage a choking adult

Elizabeth Simpson

Dedicated to teaching

Women leaders: ensuring you fulfil your potential

Lynne Pearce

How to beat the post-holiday blues

Mandy Day-Calder

This experience taught me the importance of sharing knowledge

Tara Lally

How to become a good problem solver

Dean Gurden

Bright Sky

Amanda Burston

Life After Encephalitis: A Narrative Approach

Michelle Walmsley

False Bodies, True Selves

Bob Price

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Sarah Pennifold, Stephen Taylor, Sarah Stevens

Bursary vital for older students

Shannon O’Hare

Doctors are losing support

Michael Owen

Mandatory reporting of abuse

Doreen Crawford

Obesity plan is misdirected

Gay Lee

Hello, I am not an NHS number

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is the government’s childhood obesity strategy too weak?

Jane Brown, Steve Flatt, Daniel Athey, Linda Drake

Equipping students for work

Tracey Proctor-Childs

It takes a brave heart to be a nurse in a war-torn country

Howard Catton

Who should have the MenACWY vaccine?

Matt Griffiths

Targets culture wastes energy on wrong things

Theresa Fyffe

Stake your claim for universal credit

Claire Cannings

After Brexit: nursing a divided UK

Jennifer Trueland

Sepsis care: getting it right every time

Chris Carter, Kevin Crimmons, Sue Viveash

Avoid the bottle to improve chances of conception

Patients with cancer at higher risk of fractures and bruising

New tool aims to cut child antibiotic use

Cardiac deaths fall, but the picture is patchy across UK

Urgent need to study effect of cannabis use

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Lynne Pearce

Mounting pressures on district nursing laid bare

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

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nursingstandard.com

Review praises nurse-led diabetes programmes

Clean up Florence Nightingale statue and ‘show her respect’, petition urges

Story in numbers

Consider pros and cons in bursary change, says CNO

Kat Keogh

Human rights can inform end of life care

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Coalition aims to keep EU staff in UK

Sports Direct to appoint full-time nurse after inquiry into employment practices

Lack of access to CPD is affecting older people’s care

Erin Dean

Carry on nurse

Nurse leaders need to be in the room when policies are set

Graham Scott