Tamsin Newton Snow

Talking helps nurses cope with trauma

Cancer nurses explain how they benefit from Schwartz rounds

Nursing older people with cancer

The final article in our series on how cancer affects different patient demographics

Chemotherapy

Coping with body image changes after cancer treatment

How nurses can improve their support for women with cancer

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Why the four-hour wait target in EDs should stay in place

Despite failing to meet waiting time targets, patient safety remains a priority

Obrey Alexis

Prostate cancer: a nurse’s quest to discover black men’s unmet care needs

Mary Seacole Awards winner will research the care experience of black men

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Guidance will aim to boost psychological support given to first response nurses

Effects of daily exposure to distress can take a toll on pre-hospital clinicians

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Exhibition explores a century of nursing during epidemics

Pandemic! Nursing 100 years of infection exhibition traces the evolution of nurses' roles

Childhood obesity

Childhood obesity: what can nurses do to balance the scales?

With one in three 10 to 11 year-olds either obese or overweight and England’s recent childhood obesity plan widely attacked as insufficient Tamsin Newton Snow finds out how nurses are trying to tackle the crisis.

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Skin conditions: ‘At last we are delivering a gold standard service’

Consultant nurse Karina Jackson explains how psychological screening and support is helping patients with skin disease who are traumatised by their condition.

Dementia

More than half of people with Alzheimer’s aged 90 years and over on psychotropic drugs

Psychotropic drugs are more commonly prescribed to people with Alzheimer’s disease aged 90 years or more, compared with those diagnosed at a younger age, say researchers from the University of Eastern Finland.

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School sex education often negative and heterosexist

Sex and relationship education in schools should be more positive, and delivered by experts who have clear boundaries with students, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

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Short talk with nurse trained in smoking cessation doubles quit rates

Self-reported smoking cessation rates among hospital patients more than doubled when nurses who had undergone one hour’s training coached patients on how to quit, latest findings show.

Women who take hormonal contraception more likely to be treated for depression

Women who take the combined pill are 23% more likely to be prescribed an antidepressant...

Extending cervical screening beyond 5 years safe for some women

Extending the cervical cancer screening interval beyond 5 years for women aged 40 and over...

Mixed views on plans for a new nursing and midwifery strategy

England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings and her team are busy drawing up the first...

Mental health nurses called on to contribute to new nursing strategy

Over the next few weeks, chief nursing officer for England Jane Cummings and her team will...

England's Chief nursing officer calls for input into new nursing strategy

Over the next few weeks, chief nursing officer for England Jane Cummings and her team will...

Emergency nurses comment on plans for new nursing strategy

Over the next few weeks, chief nursing officer for England Jane Cummings and her team will...

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