Use of closed cannulae in peripheral intravenous cannulation

Sally Jane Shaw

Knowledgeable, caring nurse eased our stress after heart scare

Overview of diabetes

Rosalind Ponomarenko-Jones

Care of patients with dementia in an acute trauma and orthopaedics unit

Gillian McCorkell, Deirdre Harkin, Victoria McCrory, Mary Lafferty, Vivien Coates

Preoperative care of patients undergoing stoma formation: what the nurse needs to know

Jennie Burch

‘Don’t refuse any opportunity’

The pay band revolution

Lynne Pearce

Weighing up the pros and cons before you quit your job

Mandy Day-Calder

Stand up to mental illness stigma

Robyn Ambrose

Student life - Congress: what’s in it for you?

Georgina Ledwith

MyAsthma app

Layla Haidrani

Practical Research with Children

Jane Hunt

Medicines Management in Mental Health Nursing (Second edition)

Adrian Jones

Tweets of the week

Define ‘learning disabilities’

Michael Owen

Shetland is where it’s at

Ed Freshwater

Someone will have to pay

Elaine Heeney

Hard work counts for nothing

Gary Riding

Stop ticking and start talking

Elaine Davin

Banter can help get the message across

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is strike action over pay now the only option for nurses?

Drew Payne, Daniel Athey, Linda Drake, Liz Charalambous

Bereavement by suicide is a distinctive kind of loss

Ian Hulatt

Ministers must act now to prevent nurses from quitting the profession

Susan Osborne

Supply and demand

Matt Griffiths

Being hostile towards mentorship is a mistake

Maggie Bennett, Brian McGowan

‘Telehealth is patient empowerment in action’

Jennifer Trueland

‘Therapeutic care volunteers are like the cavalry arriving on the ward’

Alison Whyte

Under surveillance: using cameras to improve care home practice

Lynne Pearce

New flu swab test for patients with severe respiratory conditions

Pre-menopausal South Asians more at risk of osteoporosis

Adrenaline pen prescriptions for children have risen significantly

Antibiotics linked to heightened risk of bowel cancer precursor

Heat exposure increases risk of heart attack in firefighters

Vaccine uptake in children and young people

Lynne Pearce

‘We need to combat negativity – nursing is a wonderful career’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

Nurses being stung by hospital car parking charges

nursingstandard.com

Celebrities unite for campaign to raise awareness and fight dementia

Story in numbers

Support swells for charity under threat of closure

Flavia Munn

Understaffing on wards ‘compromising safe care’

Flavia Munn

News in brief

Call for nurses’ views on striking over pay

Mental health nurse says teenager’s haunting story inspired her bestseller

Labour promises a pay rise for ‘undervalued’ nurses

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Westminster support

Project challenges prejudices about care home nursing

Graham Scott