Undertaking drug calculations for oral medicines and suppositories

Jane Brindley

Practice nurse always made time for my husband’s wound care

Suzie Matthews

Effective handovers

Linda Thorley

Role of clinical practice educators in an integrated community and mental health NHS foundation trust

Jane Hampson, Hazel Gunning, Louise Nicholson, Carol Gee, Dawne Jay, Gerry Sheppard

Peer social support training in UK prisons

Warren Stewart, Rachel Lovely

Put your head above the parapet

Wimbledon to welly burn: the variety of volunteering

Lynne Pearce

The anxiety demon: letting go of ‘what if’

Mandy Day-Calder

Nervous patient taught me to listen

Marleny Rodriguez Cari

Student life - Don’t get too worried about finding your first job

Georgina O’Reilly-Foley

Coping with Diverticulitis: Soothe and Heal Your Gut

Pauline Baird

Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision

Deborah Leetham

Oxford Handbook of Midwifery (Third edition)

Valerie McGurk

Tweets of the week

I still love caring for patients

Andrea Derrett

Experience counts

Louise Purcell Carmel

Focus needs to be on retention

Dawn Parker

Will new student places be filled?

Julie Cox

A numbers game

Ewout van Sabben

Keep blowing the whistle on staff shortages

I dread work due to staff shortages

‘Duty of care’ extends to staff

A bit of banter can lift the spirits – and it’s not always annoying

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Will the NHS cope with this year’s winter pressures?

Jane Scullion, Pete Hawkins, Linda Drake, Liz Charalambous

When to look for signs of IPF

Wendy Preston

It’s our duty to help students blossom safely

Janet Davies

Digital diagnosis

Marc Cornock

Don’t knock ‘obvious’ research on staff levels

Jane Ball

Progress in sexual health threatened by spending cuts

Catharine Sadler

Trusts need to listen more closely

Alison Moore

Care dashboard acts as early warning system

Jennifer Trueland

Schoolchildren may be demotivated by wearing health and fitness trackers

Keeping a diary may benefit people who hear voices

Risk of chlamydia linked to presence of bacterial strain

Gap identified in specialist end of life care for people with dementia

Computer finds colorectal cancer risk by checking patients’ records

Acid attacks

Erin Dean

Stress and anxiety driving nursing students to seek support

Flavia Munn

Around the world

Noticeboard

Principles drawn up to bolster district nurse teams

nursingstandard.com

‘Public sector pay rises in Wales must be funded by UK government’

Story in numbers

Scheme to ease capital’s recruitment problems

Matthew Mckew

‘Don’t use rise in student numbers to plug rota gaps’

Erin Dean

News in brief

Schools permitted to buy backup EpiPens

Chief nurse’s BME strategic advisory group branches out to determine regional issues

Concern over salary burden of nursing apprenticeships

Stephanie Jones-Berry

End of life

It’s degree-educated, registered professionals we really need, Mr Hunt

Graham Scott