Editor's choice
Coming out in cancer care: is disclosure of sexual orientation beneficial?
Nurses and other health professionals are expected to ask patients about sexual orientation...
Newsroom
Nurses assaulted at work deserve same swift response as Aston Villa footballer
Health professionals too often left waiting for action, says NHS Employers chief executive
Take a break, have a smear test: NHS trust’s bid to boost uptake among staff
Workplace cervical screening is proving a hit with nurses
Matt Hancock draws fire for claiming some nurses stand up when a doctor enters the room
Nursing community takes to social media to accuse health secretary of ‘spouting rubbish’
‘If we don’t fill vacancies we can’t begin to take on other challenges’
Nursing shortage is profession’s most pressing issue, England CNO Ruth May tells summit
New nursing leaders announced for NHS in England
Chief nursing officer Ruth May says senior team can ‘deliver on our commitments’
Northern Ireland pay rise leaves some nurses worse off
Increased pension contributions mean backdated award leads to lower take-home pay for some
Evidence and Practice
Sexual activity after treatment for head and neck cancer: the experience of survivors
Aim People with head and neck cancer (HNC) are at risk of dissatisfaction with sexual...
Coming out in cancer care: is disclosure of sexual orientation beneficial?
Nurses and other health professionals are expected to ask patients about sexual orientation...
Collaborative working in cancer pain management
Despite recent attention to pain assessment and management, cancer pain remains a...
A changing identity: a focus group study of the experiences of women diagnosed with...
Aim This aim of the study was to explore the information and support needs of women with...
Supportive care needs of people with pancreatic cancer: a literature review
Quality of life is crucial to people with pancreatic cancer due to poor survival rates and...
Enhancing well-being and building resilience in people living with cancer part 2: a...
Receiving a new diagnosis of cancer or of its recurrence is distressing and there are...
Features
The case for sentinel node biopsy
The less invasive way to diagnose and treat head and neck cancers
Coping with body image changes after cancer treatment
How nurses can improve their support for women with cancer
Ensuring nurses feel confident providing LGBT cancer care
Providing the best care can be challenging, but there are resources to help
Making cancer research nursing an attractive career choice
Cancer research roles are often misunderstood, but are vital to cancer care
How care for children with cancer can be improved
Round table of paediatric cancer nurses look at the challenges specialist nurses face
RCNi Nurse Awards 2019: past winners share their inspiring stories
Cancer Nursing Award 2018 winner on how the prize promoted her team’s achievements
Opinion
After diagnosis people with cancer need to be able to speak openly
Nurses have a vital role in helping patients express and cope with their fears and anxieties
Forum Focus: the reality of cancer nursing
As cancer care becomes more complex and demanding, we will need to redefine what nurses do
Book review: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Community liaison nurse team leader Kate Law reviews the Oxford Textbook of Palliative...
Students
Don’t worry if you shed a tear
Looking after a patient nearing the end of life can be daunting, but one nursing student...
An insight into the hidden battles of patients with invisible illnesses
When nursing student Laurie Batchelor helped care for a patient in the community with cancer...
Student’s homemade songbook helped patients forget cancer symptoms
When nursing student Georgia Brain created a book of lyrics to help her patients remember...
Careers
‘I knew oncology was my passion and I have never looked back’
Lead research nurse Julie Duncan explains her passion for cancer nursing
My job: Macmillan hepato-pancreato-biliary clinical nurse specialist
Vicki Stevenson-Hornby on being an advocate for a specialist cancer patient group
My job: clinical nurse specialist
Millicent Blake-McCoy qualified as a primary school teacher, but the pull of nursing was too...