Nursing Standard
Online bereavement support around the clock
An online community is tackling the social isolation that can extend the grieving process.
19 Mar 2017
Jennifer Trueland
Nursing Standard
What the student saw: placement experiences to improve everyone's practice
An ambitious international project is aiming to capture nursing students' placement experiences and use them to improve patient safety practice across the board.
13 Mar 2017
Nursing Standard
Morecambe Bay: From special measures to outstanding care
How does an NHS trust rocked by a scandal in which patients died turn itself around and earn an outstanding care rating from the Care Quality Commission? By trusting patients and staff to deliver change.
06 Mar 2017
Nursing Standard
Cancer drug decision: ‘NICE should take more account of quality of life’
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's reluctance to recommend Kadcyla for routine NHS funding, has sparked calls for a new approach to the funding of expensive drugs.
01 Mar 2017
Nursing Standard
Digital tool helps practice nurses improve diabetes care
The ‘information prescription’ tool, developed by Diabetes UK, alerts clinicians to key patient details during consultations, making it easier to provide tailor-made care.
08 Feb 2017
Nursing Standard
Child cancer: ‘The transition to palliative care is profoundly emotional’
Nurse researchers examined how parents and staff experience the period when a child moves from active to palliative care. Their findings should help all nurses supporting families through devastating loss.
24 Nov 2016
Nursing Standard
I worried my stammer would be a barrier to a career in nursing
Bethany Watson is loving her first job as nurse, and thanks to support from her trust’s...
25 Oct 2016
Nursing Standard
Diabetes-related foot amputations: a preventable disaster
Better training of non-specialists and improved foot care in all settings could turn back...
20 Oct 2016
Nursing Standard
The unvarnished truth about race discrimination in the NHS
The first report of the Workforce Race Equality Standard has set a baseline for all NHS...
07 Oct 2016
Nursing Standard
Celebrating the pioneers of nursing degrees
On the 60th anniversary of the nursing department at the University of Edinburgh, Jennifer...
26 Aug 2016
Nursing Standard
Push to promote profile of cancer nurses in Europe
Cancer nursing is well-developed in the UK but in some European countries there is little recognition of its value. An ambitious new initiative is attemptign to raise the status of the specialty across Europe.
15 Aug 2016
Nursing Standard
After Brexit: nursing a divided UK
The EU referendum results revealed deep divisions between the four UK countries and sparked renewed calls for Scotland’s independence. So could the UK break up? Whatever upheaval lies ahead, the nursing family can be a healing influence and continue to work together across country lines.
10 Aug 2016
Emergency Nurse
College backs domestic abuse awareness training
RCN will lobby for mandatory domestic abuse awareness training for healthcare staff
06 Jul 2016
Emergency Nurse
RCN calls for children to receive CPR training
Children across the UK should learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to equip them to save lives, politicians have been told.
06 Jul 2016
Nursing Standard
'You're looking well!'
Hairdressing is transforming the care of people with dementia, not just as a sensory and...
05 Jul 2016
Nursing Standard
Raise awareness of sickle cell disease, nurses told
All nurses need to be aware of the issues around sickle cell disease so that they can ensure...
20 Jun 2016
Nursing Standard
Cautious welcome for Sturgeon staffing and bursary pledge
Resources needed to make safe staffing a reality says RCN's Fyffe
20 Jun 2016
Nursing Standard
Children should be taught CPR to save lives
Showing children how to administer CPR 'will save time, money and lives' - congress
20 Jun 2016