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Stephen Wright and Jean Sayre-Adams explain how the Enneagram personality test can help find greater meaning and purpose in life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our previous Core Values and Heart of Nursing series looked in-depth at the relationship between nurse and patient. Starting this week our Insight series focused entirely on you the nurse. Stephen Wright explains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first of a major new series, Stephen Wright considers what nursing from the heart means and why it is important to patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Holistic treatments pioneered at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre are being integrated into conventional medical services. Stephen Wright paid a visit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pushing through change is bound to meet with opposition, but there are ways to win over the sceptics, writes Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introducing a new series on managing change, Stephen Wright looks at some of the theoretical and practical aspects of the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright introduces a series of six article examining the reasons why some nurses abuse or even kill patients in their care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Think of art and what springs to mind -- paintings, music, sculpture? But in the last article in our Heart of nursing series, Stephen Wright explores how nursing and art are closely related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sympathy, empathy and loving concern transform lives. But to be able to care for people in this way means nurses' hearts must be open and healed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The distractions around us are not the only things that prevent deep listening. Putting ourselves aside can be a vital means of connecting with another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RCN general secretary Beverly Malone has no doubts about why she is a nurse. Stephen Wright reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychotherapists and holistic holidays pioneer Dina Glouberman tells Stephen Wright how nurses can use the power of burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The government should continue to spend its way out of the financial crisis, argues Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role that the British government should play in educating the public about how unhealthy behaviours impact their health. The author notes that there is a tension between politicians who oppose having government oversight of preventative health and food safety and those who believe that the government should have a larger role in health promotion. As an example he notes that government anti-smoking laws have had significant health benefits.

Health care will always be an indivisible whole, and Stephen Wright hopes politicians will not forget it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses have been waiting too long for useful advice on assisted suicide, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reactions to the Cumbrian massacre expose a lingering belief in evil, explains Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Complementary and orthodox practitioners work best when not in conflict, argues Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright explores appropriate ways for Christian nurses to demonstrate their faith. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gordon Brown's commission offers an uninspiring and bland version for nursing, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As election day approaches, Stephen Wright considers what makes an effective leader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients in a persistent vegetative state may have deeper levels of awareness than we realise, argues Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovators must persevere, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author Martin Amis's views on older people do him and society no favours, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clinical duties give ward managers more clout, says Stephen Wright in his second article on leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional intelligence is as important as practical expertise, says Stephen Wright in the first of two articles about leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nursing Standard columnists and editors choose the books that stood out for them in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses have to deal with the consequences of widespread homophobia, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright argues that the adoption of secular values has not been good for nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright says a cultural taboo about loss of autonomy is behind the assisted suicide debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A secular-based health service deprives patients of effective emotional support, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A better understanding of life would release us from our fear of death, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is evidence that praying for a sick person can aid their recovery, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our youth-obsessed culture ignores the countless liberations of old age, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New evidence suggests that forgiveness aids conflict resolution and even wellbeing, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The credit crunch could lead to spiritual crises and nurses should be ready, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clarification of core NHS values may propel the service towards a golden age, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is much more to holism than 'whole person' care -- its true meaning connects each of us to the universe, believes Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Embracing the bad things in life can often bring about positive change, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can a new heart give you the donor's personality? Amazing as it sounds, there is evidence that organs can hold memories, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright says that legalised euthanasia could be a disaster for the nursing profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Churches' intolerance of homosexuals is severely detrimental to health, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright calls for a royal commission on nursing to address the profession's latest crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nursing may have neglected cleaning and feeding but there is still time to change, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nursing Standard columnists recall the books that stood out for them in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It may not be easy, but anger can be transformed into something positive, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients get better when cared for by nurses who are fully with them, says Stephen Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stephen Wright introduces a new six-part series on spirituality and nursing. Nursing Standard would hke to hear your views. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]