Advanced nurse practitioner made shock diagnosis bearable

HIV testing and diagnosis

Georgina O’Reilly-Foley

Care of older people with diabetes

Trisha Dunning

Experience of directed living donor kidney transplant recipients: a literature review

Rebecca Zoe Croft, Charlotte Maddison

Be sensitive and non-judgemental

Juliet Albert

How robots are opening up surgical opportunities

Lynne Pearce

Conquer your fear of public speaking

Mandy Day-Calder

Compassion is crucial to good care

Susan Turton

Student life - Grow your own workforce

Jennifer Trueland

Clinical Skills for Nursing Practice

Jean Rogers

Doll Therapy in Dementia Carer

Kay de Vries

Pain Management

Mandy Ridley

Tweets of the week

@ld_studentnurse, @stueymckenzie, @ShirtyPhil, @NurseStandard, @IanBlackfordMP, @NurseStandard

Letter

Kevin Mason

Letter

Kirsty Ann Jenkins

Letter

Matt Fallon

When is a nurse not a nurse?

Shelley Louise

Nursing is being diminished

Veronica Burton

Reflections on how to have your cake and eat it too

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Do charity fundraisers in drag disrespect the profession?

Drew Payne, Rachel Kent, Linda Drake, Daniel Athey

Here’s to 30 years of progress in mental health nursing

Ian Hulatt

How the times – and Nursing Standard – have changed

Janet Davies

We must stop this horrific illness

Matt Griffiths

More training places won’t fix the crisis

Josie Irwin

Practice nursing: an action plan for a disparate workforce

Erin Dean

Changes and challenges: 30 years of senior nursing

Caroline Shuldham

Nursing Standard at 30 YEARS 1987 NS 2017

Daniel Allen

Traffic fume particles can damage immune system

Brief mindfulness training helps heavy drinkers cut back

Webcams help most parents bond with premature babies

Children who skip breakfast may lack important nutrients

One in four medical students are teetotal, survey finds

Endometriosis

Erin Dean

Free childcare doubles, but funding plan ‘not sustainable’

Erin Dean

Around the world

Noticeboard

Manchester Arena bombing survivor wants to become a nurse

nursingstandard.com

Celebrities dress up as their heroes to help raise money for cancer research

Story in numbers

Nurse vacancy rate hits record high in Scotland

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Only 2% of top NHS nurse posts filled by BME staff

Stephanie Jones-Berry

News in brief

MPs drop plans to sell off NHS staff agency

Call to protect nurse titles as unregistered staff found working as ‘specialist nurses’

Overseas nurses struggling to break language test ‘barrier’

Chris Longhurst

‘Enough is enough ’

Lack of clarity over job titles is not only confusing, but risky

Graham Scott