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02 December 2020 | Vol 35, Issue 12

briefing

Editorial

If nurses speak, ministers must listen

Flavia Munn

News

Sturgeon hints at reward for COVID work

Trust picks up on need for hair covers

DIY asymptomatic testing can now be done at home

John Ely

Nursing staff numbers creep up, but recruitment fears remain

analysis

How exhausted nurses are coping as cases surge again

Erin Dean

Comment

Free school meals drive showed the best of us

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory for front-line staff?

Liz Charalambous, Rachel Kent, Drew Payne, Grant Byrne

Sound leadership is what staff need now

Emily McWhirter

feature

Mesothelioma: are nurses being put at risk in the workplace?

Peter Allmark, Angela Tod, Liz Darlison

Image of nursing

Analysis

A year like no other - but what does it mean for the nursing profession?

Careers

Never apologise for being an agency nurse

Fiona Millington

Comment

Heroic calling or fallback option: it’s no way to choose a career in nursing

James Buchan

Creative ways to step back from stress

Johannah Churchill

Feature

Odd man out: Weighing up the profession’s gender

Jennifer Trueland

Students

Picture a pandemic – giving voice to the nursing students of 2020

Jennifer Trueland

leadership

Analysis

Fitness to practise referral: what every nurse manager needs to know

Erin Dean

Feature

‘You have to be prepared to make a stand’

Jennifer Trueland

Evidence and practice

Understanding leadership for newly qualified nurses

Lucy Kirkham

Exploring the benefits and limitations of transactional leadership in healthcare

Ali Richards

health promotion

Policy briefing

Obesity strategy: tackling a public health crisis

Erin Dean

Comment

Undoing the adverse effects of lockdown

Helen Slocombe

analysis

Why nurses need to talk about vitamin D with patients

Erin Dean

feature

COVID-19 and smoking: what you need to know to help

Martin Dockrell, Jamie Waterall

Evidence and practice

Understanding the importance of concepts of health

Ruth Cross

surgical

Analysis

Elective care: catching up and staying COVID-free

Nick Evans

Feature

Robotic surgery: a day in the life of the UK’s first nurse fellow

Marie Taniacao

Evidence and practice

Care and management of patients receiving epidural analgesia

Martin Galligan

how to series

How to provide preoperative care to patients

Jacqueline Johnstone

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