Effective communication with older adults

Louise Daly

Nurse’s dedication helped us deal with our son’s diabetes diagnosis

Mobility care

Rose Gallacher

Use of the wellness thermometer to improve consultations for patients with human immunodeficiency virus

Michelle Croston, Jenny Petrak, Andrew Ustianowski

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

Jennie Burch

‘I aim to inspire our new nurses’

Nursing in the RAF: ‘it’s no ordinary job’

Kathy Oxtoby

Facing the challenges of providing leadership

Mandy Day-Calder

Improving medicines management

Kirsty Killiard

Student life - No need to rush into a role

Erin Dean

Royal Trinity Hospice

Layla Haidrani

The Skies I’m Under: The Rain and Shine of Parenting a Child with Complex Disabilities

Helen Bennett

Doing & Writing Qualitative Research

Marie Anne Clancy

Tweets of the week

Don’t believe the bad press

Charlotte Francis

Unfair expectations

Alberto Carlo Costa

Language barriers

Emma Walter

Two-way learning

MD Wooldridge

Missing out on good mentors

Steve Wright

When all is calm, please don’t utter the ‘q’ word

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should nurse handovers take place at the patient’s bedside?

Daniel Athey, Duncan Hamilton, Liz Charalambous, Rachel Kent

A royal turning point

Ian Hulatt

We are proud to be a four-country regulator

Dame Janet Finch

I’m not married – will my partner get my pension?

Marc Cornock

From treating need to creating wellness

Heather Henry

Margaret Green – education pioneer

Andrew Cole

Taking care to the patient: a rural outreach plan for men

Elaine Cole

Staff fitness plan on track for raising team spirit

Daloni Carlisle

Infants’ cognition develops faster if dads play with them, study shows

Life expectancy rises for people with HIV, study finds

Cognitive risk for overweight people with type 2 diabetes

Number of older people with care needs ‘to rise 25% by 2025’

Doctors’ age linked to mortality risk for over-65s in hospital

Fertility preservation

Lynne Pearce

Fears ‘double dose of debt’ is deterring mature students

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Inpatients note nurse shortages, but say they have confidence in the profession

nursingstandard.com

Attacks on hospital employees’ cars highlight workplace parking pressures

Story in numbers: mental health of private and public sector workers

Guidance row-back over PAYE for temporary staff

Chris Longhurst

Campaign aims to boost profile of nurse leaders

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

Call to champion health of refugees

Head of World Health Organization says nurses are key to universal healthcare

‘Tell your politicians to look at the safe staffing evidence’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Swift response

From downtrodden to influential: the global campaign to empower nurses

Graham Scott