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Create robust post-trauma and mental health support for staff, report advises
Watching Tom Cruise and Mr Bean could help people with dementia
Gender pay gap: male nurses disproportionately represented in profession’s top jobs
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Create robust post-trauma and mental health support for staff, report advises
Health Education England commission recommends 33 improvements
Watching Tom Cruise and Mr Bean could help people with dementia
Charity Dementia UK recommends films to improve mood and engagement
Gender pay gap: male nurses disproportionately represented in profession’s top jobs
Men reach higher Agenda for Change pay grades faster than women – London South Bank study
End of life: new standards promise measurable care improvements in the community
Nurses in participating general practices will be adopting the Daffodil Standards
Helen Whyley takes up permanent post as RCN Wales director
New head says she is proud to lead the team that supports and advocates for nurses
Nurses meet to start planning campaign for a safe staffing law
RCN members in England begin latest move to lobby government over nurse numbers
Analysis
Acute frailty services aim to cut avoidable ED admissions
NHS Long Term Plan puts the focus on improving acute frailty services for older people
It’s okay to talk about dying
How healthcare professionals can overcome their reluctance to talk to patients about death...
Review of 2018: The pay deal creates fallout and nurse leaders bow out
We look back on the year’s events, from a controversial pay rise to a vote of no confidence
Access to older people's services is 'complicated and confusing', CQC...
Report suggests integration can improve services, but highlights navigation difficulties
Inspectors highlight lack of joined-up health and adult social care services
Focus on managing delayed discharges has ‘almost overwhelmed other priorities’, warns Care...
Collaborative working to treat depression in care home residents
New report offers examples of good practice for care home staff
Clinical update
Updated National Osteoporosis Society guideline on vitamin D
A guideline on which patients to test and who to treat for vitamin D deficiency
Updated NICE guideline on diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure
People with chronic heart failure should be given a detailed care plan, updated NICE...
Updated NICE guidance on dementia care
First update in a decade says staff working with people who have dementia need extra training
Pain assessment in older people
Updated guidelines emphasise the subjective nature of pain and offer ways to encourage...
New guidelines to diagnose and treat age-related macular degeneration
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has produced new guidelines on age-...
NICE guidance on intermediate care and reablement
NICE has issued new guidelines on intermediate care, including reablement, and how to...
Policy briefing
Frailty framework: focus on older people's assets not deficits...
Skills framework aims to improve identification of frailty and support people to live well
NICE publishes new mental capacity guideline
After concerns about the Mental Capacity Act 2005, NICE issues a guideline on decision-...
Safeguarding framework will help nurses protect their patients
RCN sets out competencies for healthcare staff in relation to adult safeguarding
CQC recommends new approaches to older people's care...
CQC recommends new approaches to health and social care for older people
Animals in healthcare
A new RCN protocol supports nurses in planning to bring dogs safely into care homes and...
Improving respiratory health in Wales
The Welsh Government's plan to improve accuracy and diagnosis speeds for chronic obstructive...
Podcast
Hear how a nurse-led acute response team dramatically reduced cardiac arrest
Series 3 Episode 6: Nurse practitioner Amor Palada talks about preventing cardiac arrest
Reaching out to nursing students via the internet
Series 3 Episode 4: how the online Student Nurse Project is connecting students nationwide...
Nursing Standard podcast: Could parliament's Brexit chaos be the catalyst for...
Episode 7 of the Nursing Standard podcast has an interview with nurse peer Baroness Mary...
Nursing student bursary was ‘far from ideal,’ says nurse MP Maria Caulfield
The nursing student bursary should not be championed as the best way to train nurses and new...
'Integrate the four fields of nursing,' leading academic tells the Nursing...
A two-stream system should be introduced to replace the four fields, nurse leader tells...
Nursing Standard podcast: Foundation years for nursing students
Universities may need to use foundation years to ensure students can meet new registration...
Journal scan
Apomorphine infusion could reduce immobility in people with Parkinson’s disease
Study assesses use of infusion to reduce ‘off time’ in patients
Opioid use could increase risk of hip fracture in people with Alzheimer’s disease
Moderate or strong opioids linked with increased risk of falls and therefore hip fractures
Problem-solving games can boost mental ability over a lifetime
Study examines the truth of the ‘use it or lose it’ conjecture on cognitive ability
Higher body mass index linked with lower subjective well-being
Study evaluated the link between subjective well-being and cardiometabolic health
Risk factors for non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease
Non-dopaminergic symptoms include dementia, hallucinations and apathy
Assessing patients for intermittent self-catheterisation
Study looked at types of catheter available for intermittent use
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