Managing patients’ anxiety about planned medical interventions

Bob Price

‘My clinical nurse specialist is always there to offer advice and support’

Mental capacity law

Rose Gallacher

Administering and monitoring high-alert medications in acute care

Joseph Macale Ruff Cajanding

‘Always listen, reflect and learn’

An opportunity to steer the work of the RCN

Lynne Pearce

In search of meaning

Mandy Day-Calder

Creating calm amid confrontation

Bradley Squirrell

Student life - Flexible pathway into the profession for support staff

Nicky Genders

Integrated Care in Action: A Practical Guide for Health, Social Care and Housing Supports

Hanneke Wiltjer

Patient Safety – Investigating and Reporting Serious Clinical Incidents

Helen Reeves

Classic Grounded Theory: Applications with Qualitative & Quantitative Data

Morag Gray

Tweets of the week

Why should we pay?

Annie Horn

Win-win for staff and trusts

Cemlyn Roberts

Placement predicament

Ewelina Nair

Review body reaction

Karen Chilver

Mindset shift on PJ paralysis

Brian Dolan

Nurses are becoming an endangered species

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should weight problems be raised in a nurse’s appraisal?

Beverley Ramdeen, Steve Flatt, Linda Drake, Drew Payne

Sickle cell disease deserves a place in nurse education

Winifred Oluchukwu Eboh

The government must listen to global advice and invest in the NHS

Susan Osborne

Standards help to keep nurses and patients safe

Matt Griffiths

It’s every nurse’s duty to help prevent terrorism

Hilary Garratt

Case of Memories: unlocking the past for former nurses with dementia

Kathy Oxtoby

Picture this: photos improve wound management

Elaine Cole

‘Run, hide, tell’ applies to nurses too

Erin Dean

Menopause symptoms can fool women into quitting cancer drugs

Higher childhood intelligence linked to longer life

Many women ‘unaware’ of cervical screening programme

Mobile phone use changes the way we navigate obstacles

Stricter air pollution levels could save thousands of lives

Stroke in childhood

Lynne Pearce

‘It’s change like never before’

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Nurses’ charity reports steep rise in calls for support

nursingstandard.com

Study to investigate how nurse-led CBT can support women with breast cancer

Story in numbers

NHS managers are found to improve patient care

Matthew Mckew

Nurse who claimed he was a surgeon struck off

Erin Dean

News in brief

Patients given a hotline to matron

Older nurses more likely not to renew registration since start of revalidation

‘Golden hellos’ could ease recruitment crisis, says peer

Flavia Munn

Hospital fire

Your chance to shape the future of the RCN and the profession

Graham Scott