The medicines refrigerator and the importance of the cold chain in the safe storage of medicines

Richard Hatchett

People with special needs require understanding, not restraint

Healthy sleep

Rose Gallacher

Prevention, recognition and management of delirium in patients who are critically ill

Jaime Hyde-Wyatt

Don’t doubt what you can achieve

Seize the opportunities

Lynne Pearce

Listening to your patient takes time, but it’s worth it

Mandy Day-Calder

The right care at the right time

Moses Dube

Student life - Putting the community first

Lynne Pearce

Book Review: Mnemonics and Study Tips for Medical Students

Valerie McGurk

Sociology for Nurses

Kevin Corbett

Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach

Lorraine Hicking-Woodison

Tweets of the week

@ClaireCNWL, @marcaevans, @isobelfrostt, @AAsaanderson, @TheQNI

Same old drop-out story

Dianne Yarwood

The right kind of leadership?

Ed Freshwater

Train registered nurses in their hospital

Teresa Elliott

Nurse workforce opportunity

Kate Brown

Ward staff need relaxation too

Rosie Thomson

Enough of this mindfulness

Victoria Goodwin

There’s nothing in place to stop nurses taking the door marked ‘exit’

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - How should the NHS deal with a rise in complaints about nurses?

Beverley Ramdeen, Debbie Ayodele, Drew Payne, Liz Charalambous

Black blood donors needed to tackle sickle cell disease

Ebony Dunkley

Take an active role in the One You campaign

Viv Bennett

Released under licence

Matt Griffiths

Evidence on inequality can no longer be ignored

Yvonne Coghill

The great NHS sell-off

Alison Moore

A legacy of inclusion for future generations

Erin Dean

A quest for equality

Lynne Pearce

Connections to support networks are vital for teenagers’ mental health

Bigger waist-to-hip ratio holds clue to breast cancer type

Brain pressure remedy found in common diabetes drug

Confrontations at GP surgeries on rise due to service pressures

Dirty air is a bigger health risk than medical scan radiation

RCN toolkit for school nurses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Everyone stands to gain from diversity in leadership

Flavia Munn

Around the world

Noticeboard

nursingstandard.com

New standards for senior general practice nurses

‘Placement taught me nursing is about so much more than technical skills’

Story in numbers

District nursing hit by fall in student numbers

Stephanie Jones-Berry

NMC set to change rules on English language test

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

NHS bosses advised to step up flexibility

Trusts commit to grow-your-own scheme to help HCAs access nurse degree course

Understaffing and missed care ‘biting hard’, RCN warns

Kat Keogh

Diversity exhibition

Nursing has long strides to make on the road to equality

Graham Scott