Articles, booklets and guides

Burnout - a spiritual crisis

Burnout and stress are often found close together - burnout being presumed to flow from an extreme experience of stress. This guide offers a broader perspective, developed from work at the Sacred Space Foundation, a charity based in the north of England for people suffering from the extremes of stress and burnout.

Caring for Older People in Acute Care Settings (Interactive)

A free interactive version of this guide is available which features embedded video content. You can turn pages and zoom in and out in the same way as with our digital editions. (Opens in new window.)

Caring for Older People in Acute Care Settings

At a time when the care of older people in homes and hospitals has been under scrutiny, new guidelines have been published to support and guide the practice of individual nurses working in acute settings.

A guide to cultural and spiritual awareness

Given the immense diversity between different cultures and religions, this guide can only offer general useful advice.

Health care assistants and assistant practitioners: Delegation and Accountability guide

The purpose of this guide is to address some of the key issues regarding the delegation of tasks to health care assistants, and to offer practical guidance on a number of topics, including training, supervision, liability, accountability and responsibility.

Nutrition and older people

Nutrition has made headlines in the national media and the nursing press in recent years. Stories have emerged of hungry patients, a lack of support with eating and drinking, and patients being ignored. Most of these stories relate to older people.

Spirit of Nursing Conference

Addressing patients' spiritual needs is recognised as an integral part of nursing care. But exactly how is that translated in the day-to-day hurly burly of health care and what are the implications for nurses?

Vulnerable adults

In recent years the media has put child abuse under the spotlight with high-profile cases of neglect by carers. It is an issue that evokes great public concern. We hear less about the abuse of vulnerable adults and, as a society, are not comfortable with acknowledging that it exists. This guide aims to assist you in understanding your responsibilities in safeguarding vulnerable adults.

Who cares?

Every patient should experience the best possible care when they go into hospital. But sometimes things go badly wrong, as they did for Amanda Steane's husband Paul. Nursing Standard is offering a free digital copy of Amanda's book 'Who cares?' to all readers.