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Distressing cases of patients being denied safe and dignified treatment will be published by the Patients Association today as it joins forces with Nursing Standard to drive up the quality [...]

GUIDANCE ON how to respond to requests from patients about assisted suicide has been published by the RCN. It provides practical tips on dealing with difficult conversations and delivering good [...]

Nurses should tackle the taboo subject of intimate relationships and the sexuality of older people in care homes, according to RCN guidance. Care home providers should not prevent adult residents [...]

A nurse who started a sexual relationship with a former patient after contacting her on the social networking site Facebook has been removed from the nursing register. A Nursing and [...]

'Your friend is waiting for you just round the corner,' I informed a patient. 'He is my husband!' she replied indignantly. Quite how indignant was emerging in the animated conversation [...]

A community psychiatric nurse who was removed from the register for having a relationship with one of his patients has lost his High Court appeal. Eric Phillips told the court [...]

Mrs X, who is 93, was reluctant to walk. Though usually an active person who needed minimal assistance with most daily activities, she had started requesting a wheelchair. When encouraged [...]

Some nurses like watching hospital dramas and pointing out all the implausible bits. This is not how I like to pass my time but, too tired to switch off the [...]

EVERY NURSE in England is being urged to brush up on their communication skills by chief nursing officer Sarah Mullally. At the leadership conference she launched two documents on the [...]

THE NURSE caring for Ali Ismail Abbas, the orphaned 12-year-old who had both arms amputated after being hit by an American missile in Iraq, has appealed to prime minister Tony [...]