The reasons behind a lack of sexual health care delivery by student nurses should be understood. Student nurses should be supported to assess patient need and provide holistic care. Positive role models should be established in clinical and educational environments along with a focus on wider sexual health knowledge and skills.

A cycle of exclusion exists during the initial hospital stay and beyond. The experience of being readmitted to hospital is challenging, mostly perceived as negative, and, existential, emotional and psychological well-being is not satisfactorily addressed by healthcare professionals.

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| BACKG ROU N DThis exploration and discussion about involving patients and the public in gerontological nursing research, in particular doctoral training programmes, was prompted by conversations at a European summer school for doctoral nursing students. As nurses from different regions of Europe, we felt our experiences of postgraduate study and nursing scholarship had much in common. However, it also varied in some respects particularly around the approach to including patients, informal carers (family or other untrained and unpaid care providers), and the public in the research process (de Wit, Cooper, & Reginster, 2019).This raised a number of questions about how and when to incorporate this approach into doctoral training programmes across Europe with its diverse culture, healthcare and higher education systems. Our response was to come together as a group of early career researchers to review national initiatives around involving patients and the public in health research. We then identified some key literature that used this approach within gerontological nursing and critically reflected on our own experiences during our doctoral studies, which involved or had the potential to involve older people.This work is discussed, and a number of recommendations are put forward that could improve nursing science and patient care.

Emma Blakey considers one of most important lessons she learnt as a student nurse on placement, and explores how team work can influence patient care and how solidarity can change society.

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