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- Burnout - a spiritual crisis
- Cultural and spiritual awareness: a guide
- Childhood obesity and lifestyle (Kellogg's Family Health Study)
- Genetics
- Insulin pump therapy
- Management of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration
- Mental health needs of older people (Let's respect)
- Nutrition and older people
- Patient Pictures
- Research article guidelines
- Resilience and coping strategies in adolescents
- Smoking cessation
- Spirit of Nursing Conference Presentations
- Urinary continence management in older people
- Volume indexes for Nursing Standard printed journal
- Vulnerable adults
- Book reviews
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- Courses
- Career skills
- Acquiring communication skills
- Planning your career
- Interview techniques
- Developing nursing skills
- Exploiting new opportunities
- Specialisation
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- Law and Policy
- Volume 20
- Learning by doing
- A cut above
- Jill of all trades
- All things being equal
- Positive spin
- Nursing in a war zone
- Anxious moments
- Wake up and learn
- On the road to recovery
- Memories are made for this
- Be brave, admit ignorance
- Ringing the changes
- Writing on the wire
- Hotline to health
- Improve your wobbling skills
- Headed the right way
- Too posh to floss?
- Hang on in there
- Confidence boost
- Be ready for your 15 minutes
- Beyond the emergency
- Face up to responsibility
- Movers and shakers
- Having it all
- Practice potential
- Worth the effort
- Volume 21
- Do your patients rate you?
- Pioneers of independence
- Star performance
- First step on career ladder
- Dealing with differences
- Carry on nursing
- Battle stations
- Blowing the whistle
- On the doorstep
- Nursing in New Delhi
- Agencies offer choice and variety
- The healing personality
- What makes a good nurse?
- Power of effective communication
- Where there's smoke…
- Information explosion
- When disaster strikes
- Time out for latecomers
- Solid grounding
- Recruitment in freefall
- Talking up the treatment
- Understanding learning
- Are you just the job?
- Intent on success
- Put value in evaluation
- New Zealand, new life
- A gentle art
- Drive for success
- Finding something to smile about
- No barriers to nursing
- Education in overdrive
- Finding something to smile about
- Broader horizons
- See beyond the illness
- Remember and learn
- Sight savers on wheels
- Shipshape to nurse
- Learn to play hardball
- A big adventure
- Battlefield
- Connecting with children
- See the client not the addiction
- Make your choices ‘green'
- Learning to assist
- Emergency medicine
- The good portfolio
- Raising a research profile
- My turning point
- Practical support for Africa
- Honing interprofessional links
- Keeping to the same old pathways
- Crossing the divide
- Freedom to learn
- Nurses need the law
- Expanding professional horizons
- Try some variety
- In the land of ‘cash and ‘carry' health care
- Take direct action
- Pride and prejudice
- An essential debriefing
- The nurse is not for burning
- Can you tell write from wrong?
- Safe in our hands
- Highly prized
- Designed for life
- Building for health
- Change of direction
- Listen and learn
- Eat, drink and be renewed
- Finnish school
- It will go swimmingly
- Model for delivery
- Don't take it personally
- How IT is shaping up
- Timeless nursing values
- Working together, learning together
- Loss of experience
- Prison placement
- Sounds of silence
- Defining moment
- Alternative nursing
- Shifting priorities
- To Russia with care
- Pulling power
- Here to help
- Not always greener
- Plotting your pathway
- How healthy is mental health?
- A hard day's night
- All together now
- Aide to recovery
- There for the taking
- Humbling experience
- Lead by example
- No problem too small
- Of pharoahs and sphinxes
- Volume 22
- Formative years
- At your service
- Interview tactics
- Take a look at tomorrow
- Guiding lights
- Out of our comfort zone
- Finding your way in the early days
- Get a career boost
- Volunteering can be a career investment
- Not living comfortably
- Crisis can give you a better Christmas
- Get things in perspective
- Happy to stay in Lebanon
- No Students for me
- Nightingale’s work lives on
- Difficult conversations
- Train to retain
- The art of empathy
- Enterprising moves
- Rules of engagement
- Calm and collected
- Root and branch review of education
- Leaders at liverpool
- Stress busters
- All in a day's work
- Young minds
- Power of the team
- Lean and simple
- Winning is a BIG boost
- Developing intelligent feelings
- Research power
- Just a minute
- Opportunity knocks
- Up to the Challenge?
- Of course you can study
- Extension of powers
- Safety in numbers
- Help is just a phone call away
- Leading the way
- The business of community spirit
- Pass on the advice
- World's best practice
- Expertise in hand
- Cool, calm and collected
- Practise makes perfect
- Next rung of the ladder
- Professional backup
- Birth of a French love affair
- Smile therapy
- Keeping fit for practice
- An end to indifference
- Tailored applications
- Parental guidance
- In the right direction
- Past inheritance
- Governing bodies
- From the source
- High and dry
- Right tools for the job
- Feeling the squeeze
- Positive partnerships
- Get ahead
- People and places
- Demand and supply
- Aim for the higher ground
- Protect yourself
- Less lonely at the top
- One step ahead of an error
- Crossing the aid hurdles
- A leader on the patient journey
- Shock treatment
- Volume 23
- Inner confidence
- Point of reference
- Knowledge swap
- Greater flexibility for learning
- Teaching a good death
- Crossing continents
- Atlantic crossing
- Caught on camera
- The never-ending shift
- Freedom to influence
- An appreciation of culture
- The power of compassion
- Measure up to the job
- Let's talk it through together
- Bringing care home
- Setting the standards for entry
- A fatal lack of communication
- Trust built on shared power
- Seeing the ability
- Monitoring staff progression
- Learning the skills to save lives
- Where the buck stops
- A spiritual journey
- Letter from America
- The metrics of care
- Good boss, better results
- 1,000 jabs in five-week tour
- Step back in time
- Persistence leads to success
- Keeping staff healthy and safe
- Working with a united vision
- Acting out the lesson
- Ride on time
- Budgetary control
- Keep children safe
- Setting a positive example
- Caring for Gaza’s victims of war
- Operation Africa Nursing
- Burden of blowing the whistle is lightened
- Primary source of support
- Stand out from the rest
- Putting thought into practice
- Build an effective team
- Lessons in customer service
- Stay safe at work
- A pilgrimage of healing
- A chance to network
- Knighted for service
- Born to be different
- Green economy
- Forging ahead with advanced practice
- Unmask your talent
- Keeping it local
- Sketching out a new career
- Measures to stop the rot
- Championing research
- The art of persuasion
- Extra training brings added value
- Health on the box
- Complementary care in check
- Be alert to patient safety
- First contact posts under threat
- New roles for nurses at night
- Keeping confidence
- New post, first impressions
- UK perspectives on care in Russia
- Quality in the community
- Building healthier workers
- Cardiac nursing on the next level
- Protecting public health
- Century of support
- Bearing witness
- A yardstick for good practice
- Spread the word
- Opportunity
- Teaching carers the tricks of the trade
- The sky’s the limit
- Volunteer to share your skills
- Volume 24
- Staking a claim
- Making the most of careers fairs
- Obama’s vision
- The neighbourhood revolution
- She’s finally got IT
- The healing relationship
- The right incentive
- How to share the learning
- The business of diversity
- A specialist kind of dilemma
- In the light of experience
- A journey of all-round discovery
- Happy in their work
- Affairs of the heart
- Letter from America
- Academic ambitions
- Supported nurses give better care
- Backing nurse ingenuity
- Fighting back against swine flu
- Leaders of the future
- Pioneer’s legacy of change
- New act, new ethos, new role
- Working through your emotions
- Talking success
- On top Down under
- Masterminding improved
- Choosing from a wider pool of talent
- Giving the benefit of her experience
- Pressure point
- Witness an expert at work
- Glad to be in the thick of it
- Where the eyes have it
- Qualified to advise
- Strategies for change
- Lessons to be learned
- A deeper insight
- Help to improve Neonatal care
- Mutual benefits
- Pointers for greater efficiency
- United approach pays dividends
- International learning
- Nurses anticipate shake-up
- Sorting out home delivery
- Essential care
- A contentious area
- In patients’ interests
- Turning an idea into reality
- Better for business
- Seeing signs, reducing risk
- Discounts
- Events
- Links
- Network
- Student life
- Dealing with your first death
- The calmness and dignity of the last offices ritual impressed me
- Participating in a patient's end-of-life care was humbling
- Patient's Frank talk about death made me feel uncomfortable
- A staff nurse showed me how to respect patients who have died
- Helping parents to grieve was a privilege I will never forget
- I was shocked by My inability to support a grieving relative
- Patients were reassured when I expressed my distress at death
- My sister's loss taught me the hardest lesson of all
- The death of a child takes an adult nursing student by surprise
- Working with tsunami survivors taught me to listen to patients
- Dealing with your first death
- A patient's thanks gave student Victoria Snowdin confidence
- End of life care was exemplary
- At last, I found a way to connect with a lonely hospice patient
- How I learned to be calm and unafraid in the face of death
- I was deeply moved by the trust a dying patient showed in me
- Honour of carrying out last offices helped calm my nerves
- Small gesture of respect helped a dying child’s grieving family
- Patient’s one dying wish should have been taken more seriously
- People need time to collect their thoughts when told bad news
- Time is no barrier to forming a close nurse-patient relationship
- Life on the wards
- It was easy to misinterpret a loving wife's brusque manner
- I cannot forget the patient who was turned away
- Needless communication error compromised a patient's care
- I learned to set aside my own feelings on abortion
- Families benefit from getting involved with personal care
- Simple encouragement was all a client needed to get moving
- I gained personal experience of the impact of arthritis
- Clients assessed my care-giving skills in a placement interview
- Try to understand the patient's feelings about being looked at
- A gentle art
- I lacked confidence to speak up for my patient's best interests
- An orthopaedic placement helped heal my fear of cancer
- Learn to play hardball
- Tube feeding excludes patients from some basic social rituals
- Blood sugar spiked when drugs were given at the wrong time
- A non-accidental injury threw light on postnatal depression
- A family death highlights the importance of communication
- I felt guilty when I could not help a client hearing voices
- I wish I had felt more confident to use my life-saving skills
- Insensitive nursing marred a patient's last hours of life
- If you feel uncomfortable about a task, trust your instincts
- ‘They were not bad nurses, but the patient was overlooked'
- Shamiso Simango found a simple solution to a patient's anxiety
- Take time to preserve patient dignity
- Sharing information about a patient's past can be useful
- In self-defence
- Efficient case conference felt a bit like child abuse
- When truth hurts
- Reluctance to interfere should not get in the way of good care
- Being with a patient as he or she dies is a unique experience
- A language barrier isolates patients and can be harmful
- In the dock
- Hospital can be a comfort zone too
- A mature approach
- Pure theatre for nursing students
- Fighting back
- Health in relation to lifestyle and health promotion
- Keeping patient's informed
- Clear communication
- Nursing can be a rollercoaster ride
- Exposure to an IV drug abuser's blood
- Edward Davies realised he knew a patient in his care
- From breast cancer diagnosis to an Advanced Diploma
- An experience I will never forget
- Scared and shaken but proud
- Informed consent
- Individualistic approach to care
- Katie Hillier learned that all nursing can involve palliative care
- The value of building relationships
- A first encounter
- Visiting a terminally ill patient
- Building communication and interpersonal skills
- Support for family members
- A nurse's therapeutic relationship
- Perceptions of mental health nursing
- A patient's right to know?
- Losing sight of patients as people
- An ethical dilemma
- Learning professionalism and responsibility
- Person-centred care
- Was I really cut out for nursing?
- A patient's choice must be respected
- Taking time to talk
- An enlightening experience
- Highs and lows
- Student Steven Edmunds helped a patient through a painful procedure
- Student Maureen Taiwo Alabi comforts a woman in pain
- Find positive learning from negative experiences of care
- Painful lesson in how to deal with patients’ aggression
- Assisting with births helped me to empathise with mothers
- I had to lie to a patient and it ruined our relationship
- My outburst upset colleagues, but I expect high standards
- Relatives can appear uncaring but they still need our support
- A close shave brings home the importance of identity checks
- Starting out
- I saw a patient die in pain after it took too long to get his drugs
- The day I learned to be wary of leaving dad holding the baby
- I learned that dignity is about listening to the patient
- It is only natural to show your emotions and cry sometimes
- Assisting in the delivery room can be tense and emotional
- Self-medicating patient taught me always to ask questions
- A love of learning
- Walking back to happiness
- Sometimes nurses may have to act against their own instincts
- My own diagnosis has given me insight into how patients feel
- Positive reflections
- I stopped blaming the patient for the problems in her life
- Silence is not golden
- Two-way treatment
- In a tangle over being mistaken as a mental health patient
- Know it all
- I ignored my gut instinct and let the patient have her own way
- Seeing patient’s living conditions presented me with a dilemma
- Putting theory into practice when communicating bad news
- I learned how body image can affect a patient’s mental state
- Try a colleague's shoes
- I learned why it is important to adopt a family approach to care
- Helping the trauma team taught me the value of fast assessment
- Patient’s cash gift to my mentor
- I was right to question a ward’s technique for dressing wounds
- Lost in the hubbub
- Respecting a patient’s religious needs is key to holistic care
- I felt unable to help a patient with a psychological problem
- The signs are all there
- Patient who was abusive to his wife
- Request for a cup of tea
- It is vital to keep up routine checks
- I saw a nurse hit a patient
- The hour I spent with an anxious patient was essential to her care
- Welcome to the ward
- My cheerful attitude upset an anxious pre-op patient
- An emotional connection opened up meaningful communication
- Patient’s refusal to wash may have been a sign of his distress
- Incorrect equipment preparation could have put a patient at risk
- Making the best of your placements
- Picnic mishap gave me a lesson in preparing for the unexpected
- Be confident in your skills and speak up for your patients
- Listen to your conscience when you work under supervision
- Dealing with differences
- Blowing the whistle
- Talking about his family life calms a patient with dementia
- Time out for latecomers
- Keep your chin up, work hard, tell the truth and enjoy it all
- Placement visits revealed the realities of the sex trade
- Emergency medicine
- Let's stop apologising and be proud of our student status
- Honing interprofessional links
- Learning to survive the world outside of my comfort zone
- Try some variety
- Take direct action
- Starting out
- Keep in touch
- Lessons in how to get the best from a methodical assessment
- Be persistent in the search for dementia patients' identity
- I was deeply affected by a dying patient who put on a brave face
- Really listening to a patient can make all the difference
- Nurses have a right to make moral judgements at work
- Students on placements must never forget they are guests
- We must always challenge bad practice, even from a consultant
- Be the nurse you want to be by refusing to kowtow to bullies
- A GP showed me how to deal with a violent and aggressive patient
- I learned about the importance of balancing ethical principles
- Good communication can start with an offer of a cup of tea
- A hospice placement gave me experience of ‘real nursing'
- Happy to be a softie if it means remaining true to my values
- Diagnosis without explanation can cause needless anxiety
- Last hours
- Patients and staff benefit from ‘human touch' nursing care
- A poor hospital referral puts patient's welfare in jeopardy
- Good communication takes account of patient's abilities
- A day centre placement showed me a different side to nursing
- Don't overlook the importance of communication with patients
- Witnessing ‘barbaric' seclusion provided impetus for reflection
- Discussing a patient's fear of falling could prove helpful
- Feeling valued
- Some people may prefer not to be reminded of the ‘old days'
- There is so much to learn, but it is sinking in – gradually
- People told me I could never be a nurse, but they were wrong
- Becoming a person again
- How one simple sentence gave my patient false hope
- I learned to see a person behind the mental illness
- Second nature
- Off target
- Good practice
- The mother load
- The end is in sight
- Real life is not like holby city, but i realise that I did my best
- Tips for success
- Finding time to talk to a patient can help reduce their anxiety
- An appreciative patient showed me the importance of trust
- Happy returns
- Getting to know each other starts with exchanging names
- Feeling the squeeze
- No time for staff tiffs when patients need our care
- Make a link
- Do mental health patients get the services they deserve?
- Learn side by side
- Added value?
- First–time nerves
- We are all responsible
- When it all goes wrong
- Student Michelle Dunn learned to keep an open mind
- Culture shock
- Joanne Hardy learned that sometimes the patient just wants a hug
- Student Evie Jackson learned from a difficult patient encounter
- Student Ian Simpson's eyes were opened in the community
- Placement prejudice
- Spread your wings
- My first placement taught me
- Good placement guide
- A bank nurse showed me how to trust my own judgement
- The final placement
- In india, I saw how patients are cared for by their entire family
- Handing over responsibility
- Prison placement taught me to see all patients as individuals
- Nurse advocates brought relief to patient in terrible pain
- Unaccustomed as I am…
- A world of difference
- Seeing a dead body helped me deal with my mother’s illness
- A tale of two placements – from pariah to valued team member
- My attempt to advocate for a vulnerable patient was in vain
- A patient taught me about cognitive ability after stroke
- My first job is at a hospice
- When your patience is stretched to breaking point, ask for help
- I missed an opportunity to try cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- I learned a more professional approach to observations
- Learning to change
- I learnt that communication is vital in stressful situations
- Community relations
- Showing real empathy helped my patient on a difficult day
- A comforting presence
- I was motivated to challenge the uncaring attitudes of staff
- I learned a lot from a patient who could only speak one word
- Inducing success
- In students’ shoes
- Our work while on placements is very important to patients
- A difficult placement taught me the value of end-of-life care
- I reported poor care standards and this has empowered me
- I felt uneasy about a patient being the focus of a sad spectacle
- Allowing a colleague to rush me caused my patient distress
- Difference matters
- Answer the call to learn
- Becoming a patient forced me to reassess my nursing priorities
- Encouraging patients to help themselves has positive effects
- Respecting the wishes of a dying patient made all the difference
- Observation is the key to good care for dementia patients
- Learning to respect the value of nurse-patient boundaries
- The sheer determination of one patient was inspirational to me
- Show of aggression was a way of telling me what she wanted
- The focus of care needs to be on the patient, not just the task
- Using relatives as translators creates a barrier to good care
- Reflecting on trauma
- Communication skills need to be tailored to the patient
- I forgot to communicate with a ventilated and sedated patient
- I was privileged to witness the courage of a little girl’s family
- Power to the patient
- I refused to lie for a patient
- How can I help?
- I should ask about sexual issues despite my embarrassment
- Community counts
- I was amazed by the skill and professionalism of paramedics
- I supported a patient who was given bad news and left alone
- Performing CPR on a patient banished some misconceptions
- Getting back on course
- I struggled through the snow to bring patients their medication
- Be receptive to the signals that mean someone wants to talk
- Being excluded from a handover left me feeling small and upset
- I gained more from a placement by speaking up for myself
- Turn failure into success
- Know the boundaries
- I carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a prisoner
- Opportunity knocks
- Mentoring
- I am thankful that healthcare assistants are there to help
- A good mentor has helped me to realise my potential as a nurse
- Mentor's poor example made me examine my own attitudes
- I should have had the confidence to speak for unconscious patient
- Straight talk cleared the air with mentor
- Loss of confidence
- Key to learning
- Mutual benefit
- No obstacle to success
- Mind your mentoring
- The caring character
- After the interview
- Emotions in check
- Differences of opinion
- Mutually supportive
- Mentor’s support helped me get over nerves about handover
- Patient was not the only person unsettled by mentor’s tone
- Study skills
- Recruitment in freefall
- Understanding learning
- Are you just the job?
- Put value in evaluation
- Education in overdrive
- Remember and learn
- Can you tell write from wrong?
- Using the internet as a learning tool
- Testing time
- How to ask an intelligent question
- Word perfect
- The cost of reading
- On course for success
- Crunch the numbers
- A test of fitness
- Quote of many colours
- Learning on the go
- A question of preparation
- Networked learning
- Cut out the plagiarism
- Learning from the team
- Have you ever cheated?
- Weighing up research
- Jettison the exam jitters
- Pressure too much?
- Key to student support
- Exchange visit opened my eyes to other practices and beliefs
- Record of achievement
- Full-time commitment
- The learning divide
- Late off the mark
- Reading the signs
- Study by degree
- It’s all in the planning
- Proving your point
- Learning through play
- Beyond the call of duty
- How to read a job advertisement
- Investing in the future
- More than merely ‘clever’
- Life saving students
- Insuring the future
- Keys to success
- Pathway for learning
- Hurdles to understanding
- Buddies help find the way
- Communication failure
- Why be a nurse?
- At your service
- The healing personality
- What makes a good nurse?
- No barriers to nursing
- See beyond the illness
- Swift response to suspected diabetes helped save my sister
- A big adventure
- See the client not the addiction
- My turning point
- I refused to let Scoliosis stop me from following my dream
- Battling a stomach bug gives me an idea of how patients feel
- Why be a nurse?
- Student Julie Meredith learned to question her own beliefs
- Transfer made easier
- The truth about failure
- When I came face to face with the ‘too posh to wash' nurses
- Caring for dad helped me to realise I was ready to nurse
- Exclusion from the clique left me scared and demoralised
- Nursing the planet
- Older and wiser
- Make a difference
- Steps toward recovery
- Sticks and stones
- Actions that benefit patients are not an abuse of power
- Conveyor belt care
- The rewards of caring for the patient, not just the condition
- Out of harm's way
- Getting to know the importance of introductions to patients
- Stand up for specialists
- International recognition
- Clinical knowledge to hand
- I challenged a colleague’s poor treatment of a vulnerable man
- Spoon number eight helped me to see humanity in a ‘monster’
- Language matters
- How to pick the best
- We are all in it together
- Ticking all the right boxes
- Experience as a patient
- Man about the house
- Only a mother can truly know and understand her child’s pain
- I was right to report unsafe practice
- Comforting a grieving relative made me see nursing’s value
- Work/life balance
- Make your choices ‘green'
- The ride of your life
- An essential debriefing
- ABC of time planning
- Financial tips
- Survival guide
- Unsocial behaviour
- Balancing act
- Rights of access to all
- Application required
- Knowledge in hand
- Time to branch out
- Price worth paying
- First aid incident reinforced the importance of preparation
- Give me time to heal
- The two sides of stress
- Support is at hand
- I overcame my feelings to be an observer in an abortion clinic
- I enabled a patient to make his own decision on cancer trial
- Reputation at stake
- Dealing with your first death
