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
Coping with body image changes after cancer treatment
How nurses can improve their support for women with cancer
Why the four-hour wait target in EDs should stay in place
Despite failing to meet waiting time targets, patient safety remains a priority
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
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
Exhibition explores a century of nursing during epidemics
Pandemic! Nursing 100 years of infection exhibition traces the evolution of nurses' roles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.