Appreciation and orientation go a long way if you’re an agency nurse

Sarah Priday

Service evaluation

Irene Gilsenan

Methods of contraception: the nurse’s role in providing care and advice

Sally Kelsey

Care of patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation in critical care

Susan Elliott, Nicola Morrell-Scott

‘Mistakes are a chance to learn’

‘It feels like the trust is investing in us’

Lynne Pearce

How to stay fit and healthy this winter

Mandy Day-Calder

Dignity in difficult circumstances

Mallory Mepsted

Student life - What it is to be a leader

Zoe Butler

A Nightingale Christmas Carol

Valerie McGurk

Dementia Activist

Shauna Rooney

Revalidation: A Journey for Nurses and Midwives

Carolyn Middleton

Madness of NHS plan to ask patients their gender preference

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Will seeking samples from people who bite or spit at nurses make a bad situation worse?

Pete Hawkins, Daniel Athey, Liz Charalambous, Jane Scullion

Schwartz rounds help ease stress and foster teamwork

Caroline Shuldham

Investment in nursing must not stop at new recruits

Janet Davies

Looking less united

James Buchan

The future of health visiting is under threat

Karen Stansfield

The Queen’s Nurse returns to Scotland

Clare Cable

The team making sure patients don’t die alone

Lynne Pearce

The unconscious bias that’s keeping men out of nursing

Aimee Aubeeluck, Jamie Waterall, Joanne Lymn

Drugs used to treat acid reflux increase stomach cancer risk

Lower risk of dementia when taking anticoagulant drugs

Massage could help muscle regrowth in immobile patients

Healthcare staff need recovery time after mass casualty events

Doctors might delay retirement if work hours and red tape were cut

NICE quality standard on cerebral palsy

Lynne Pearce

Ensuring suicide prevention is everyone’s business

Flavia Munn

Touchscreens replace hospital’s handwritten whiteboards

‘Your work is so important,’ the Queen tells community nursing champion

CPD funding cuts are prompting nurses to quit

Chris Longhurst

Guidance aims to iron out job title inconsistencies

Stephanie Jones-Berry

‘Spending cuts and mortality are linked’

Trust proposes overseas exchange scheme to help retain staff with itchy feet

RCN demands budget pledge, as nurses ‘can’t pay the bills’

Flavia Munn

Wales’ nurse of the year

CPD funding cuts prove costly for the profession

Graham Scott