Long-COVID, a term that’s all too apt

Flavia Munn

Face masks making communication clear

Outbreak at trust in PM’s constituency

Staff unable to access tests forced to take time off

Kimberley Hackett

English language test at home introduced for overseas-trained nurses

Has your COVID-19 experience made you rethink your nursing role?

Erin Dean

Fair pay means not just money, but value

Howard Catton

Why we need to ‘feed’ our future nurses

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Will harsher sentences for assaults help reduce violence against nurses?

Rachel Kent, Grant Byrne, Drew Payne, Johnson Stacy

Skilled professionals or NHS ‘heroes’: has public perception of nursing really changed?

Erin Dean

A tiring shift behind you, and the drive home ahead

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Does my employer have to give me time off for a job interview?

Why nurse managers need to say ‘yes’ to flexible working

Kate Jarman

RCN’s new fellows and honorary fellow

Open Access An enduring legacy: contributions of Royal College of Nursing fellows to nursing science

David Benton, Alison Tierney, Roger Watson, Kathleen McCourt

Removing the barriers that can hold BAME staff back

Maxine Obeng

Casual racism and microaggression: what you can do about it

Jennifer Trueland

The power of my own mental health journey

Francesca Hufton

Exploring health and social care professionals’ initial perceptions of caring for trans patients

Martina Inessa Kirlew, Helen Lord, Joey Weber

Long-COVID and how to promote patients’ recovery

Erin Dean

COVID-19 and sepsis: what do the similarities mean for nurses and patients?

Jennifer Trueland

Hand hygiene is still the best defence

Rose Gallagher

Early diagnosis and effective management of sepsis

Clare Hird

Assessing darker skin: is nurse training colour-blind?

Daniel Allen, Kimberley Hackett

Using the SSKIN care bundle to prevent pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit

Julie Santy-Tomlinson, Emma Limbert

Understanding the elements of a holistic wound assessment

John Docherty

Open Access Introduction

Alison Tierney, Roger Watson, David Benton, Daniel Kelly, Michael Brown, Kathleen McCourt

Open Access Fifty years on: reflections on research on the role of the health visitor

June Clark

Open Access Nursing – a research-based profession

Jennifer M Hunt

Open Access The support of patients with heart disease and their partners

David R Thompson

Open Access Shifting the paradigm

Alison J Tierney

Open Access A turning point for community psychiatric nurses

Kevin Gournay

Open Access Frameworks for emergency nursing assessment and management: the Components of Life Model and the Jones Dependency Tool

Gary Jones

Open Access Nurse staffing impacts on patient and nurse outcomes

Anne Marie Rafferty

Open Access Nurses at the top table: the Munich Declaration and its sequalae

Ainna Fawcett-Henesy, David C Benton

Open Access Animating children’s pain research: using arts-based approaches to disseminate knowledge and mobilise emotions

Bernie Carter

Open Access Twenty-five years of the EdFED scale: a useful scale for measuring mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia

Roger Watson

Open Access Transforming advanced dementia: the Palliare Best Practice Statement, an interprofessional learning framework and tool for improvement

Debbie Tolson

Open Access Factors related to the disproportionate representation of BME nurses in NHS disciplinary proceedings

Uduak Archibong

Open Access Enhancing and advancing spiritual care in nursing and midwifery practice

Wilfred McSherry

Open Access Right people, right roles, right time

Jane Salvage, Barbara Stilwell

Open Access Through their eyes: building resilience and well-being by listening to children and young people with complex needs about their health preferences

Jane Coad

Open Access Practical advice based on evidence, when people most need it: producing a guide on dementia

June Andrews

Open Access Reflecting on the characteristics and values of military nurses: war zone qualitative research

Alan Finnegan, Hugh McKenna, Kath McCourt

The Person-centred Nursing and Person-centred Practice Frameworks: from conceptual development to programmatic impact

Brendan McCormack

Open Access Learning disability liaison nurses: the provision of compassionate, person-centred care for people with learning disabilities accessing acute hospital care

Michael Brown

Open Access Death, dying and emotional labour: still relevant after all these years

Daniel Kelly

Open Access Babies don’t come with an instruction manual

Ruth Oshikanlu

Open Access Remembering nursing policy research: a bibliometric study of published nursing research

Michael Traynor