'The NHS Pay Review Body benefits nurses'...
Constrained in recent years by the government’s insistence on a 1% pay cap, the review body...
28 Nov 2016
Features
Child cancer: ‘The transition to palliative care is profoundly emotional’
Nurse researchers examined how parents and staff experience the period when a child moves...
24 Nov 2016
Crisis in the care home sector
Given the right conditions, care homes offer rewarding roles for nurses and create...
21 Nov 2016
Help patients cope with the financial toll of cancer
A cancer diagnosis is difficult enough, but for many people it also leads to severe...
17 Nov 2016
Helpline nursing: important, highly skilled and surprisingly satisfying
Nurses who work on health helplines have finely-honed communication skills and an...
15 Nov 2016
Surgery deferred, sight denied: improving access to cataract treatment
A report from the Royal National Institute of Blind People has revealed that in some parts...
13 Nov 2016
Obituary: Dr John Adams
Dr John Adams, who has died aged 63 after a long illness, was one of the outstanding...
11 Nov 2016
‘A diagnosis of neurofibromatosis 2 can be extremely scary’
Carolyn Redman is one of a handful of nurses caring for patients with the rare genetic...
10 Nov 2016
Brexit: UK research fears being left in the cold
Will Brexit leave UK projects without funding?
07 Nov 2016
UK educators deliver pioneering critical care programme in Zambia
Delivering health care in a country like Zambia is a challenge, but a pioneering scheme...
07 Nov 2016
Celebrating nursing innovation across Yorkshire and the Humber
The latest article in Nursing Standard’s series celebrating modern nursing roles across the...
04 Nov 2016
‘To get to the top, you have to be prepared to take risks’
Few black nurses make it to a director of nursing post. Mary Mumvuri believes her success is...
04 Nov 2016
Authoritarian staff trigger so-called ‘challenging behaviour’
Too often, healthcare staff resort to restrictive practices when faced with behaviour they...
30 Oct 2016
App improves care of non-verbal patients
Tool helps children and adults express pain and discomfort
28 Oct 2016
Care plans minimise the use of restraint
A practice development team has devised protocols that put mental health patients at the...
27 Oct 2016
E-learning tool to support nurses in developing cultural competence
A new e-learning tool has been launched to support NHS clinicians in developing cultural...
25 Oct 2016
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