Take the time to spot the patients who need extra reassurance

Acute care

Tina Price

Undertaking an accurate and comprehensive assessment of the acutely ill adult

Paula Mayo

Person-centred care: experiences of older people with dementia

Linda Nicholson

Remember to lift as you climb

Inspiring leaders to make cultural change possible

Lynne Pearce

Stop trying to do it all

Mandy Day-Calder

Find a way to connect with patients

Felicity Allman

Student life - Undergrads and registrants should show a united front

Dann Gooding, Lucy Mason

Clinical Examination Skills for Healthcare Professionals

Kyle Williams

Head and Neck Cancer (Second edition)

Julie Hewett

Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation Into Practice (Third edition)

Mark Gray

Tweets of the week

Another lesson unlearned

Grief of the rejected donor

Snowflake slur is offensive

Christian Wrathall

NHS uses nurses as scapegoats

Lucy Allport

Behind the rise in complaints

Zoe Murphy

When the humble safety pin held nursing together

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should GP receptionists be trained to direct patients to alternative services?

Linda Drake, Drew Payne, Rachel Kent, Daniel Athey

Keep up to date with latest improvements in stroke care

Ismalia de Sousa

Invest in district nurses if you want to cope with winter pressures

Crystal Oldman

Doctors come at a price

James Buchan

#EndPJparalysis is about trusting nurses

Brian Dolan

Capture the fracture

Elaine Cole

Caring in a crisis

Jacqui Thornton

Exercise built into daily life could reduce the risk of heart disease

Smoking linked to inflammatory skin disease

Healthcare staff need to be aware of HIV risk in older adults

Older siblings raise the risk of serious flu in babies and toddlers

Lack of training and poor access puts public off using defibrillators

Delirium

Erin Dean

When sharing data saves lives

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Around the world

Noticeboard

New role will support nurses in improving care quality and promoting health

nursingstandard.com

War nurses’ photographs bear vivid witness to their work on the fronts

Story in numbers

End may be in sight for abortion clinic protest

Chris Longhurst

Stop playing games with training places, Hunt told

Matthew Mckew

News in brief

‘Worrying decline’ in nurse numbers

Nurses support proposal for tougher laws to protect NHS staff from assaults

Now the cap’s been scrapped, it’s time for a ‘proper’ pay rise

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Psychological therapy

Pay cap removal must translate to a meaningful pay rise

Gary Paragpuri