Student life - Credit where it’s due

Jasmine Farsarakis

Small changes that will add up

Teri Harman

Notice board

Helping patients to rebuild their lives

Mark Holmes

Life in the balance

Ginny Colwell

Acute variceal haemorrhage

Rebecca Blackwell

Assessment and treatment of patients with acute unstable bradycardia

Jennie Swift

Respiratory system part 1: pulmonary ventilation

Ella McLafferty, Carolyn Johnstone, Charles Hendry, Alistair Farley

Safe use of oral bowel-cleansing preparations

Gargi Ghosh

Josephy, Greta Ann

Kate Josephy

The Ivy Lang School of Nursing is holding a 40-year reunion

Patti Sinnamon

Mr Cameron, we need more time to deliver compassionate care

Jo Sims

Uncooperative colleagues make me ashamed of the profession

Tweets of the week

Patients with COPD need the skills of advanced nurse practitioners

Alison Crumbie

My time as a healthcare assistant prepared me for nurse training

Emily Hards

Having the right nursing values goes beyond an academic test

Lizzy Glackin

Savile was universally loathed by Stoke Mandeville staff

John Adams

Human bandwidth is an asset to be treasured not buried

Sarah Amani

Employers are right: nurses should use Facebook and Twitter at work

Teresa Chinn

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Childhood Eye Cancer Trust

Theofania Theodorou

The Engaging Manager – The Joy of Management and Being Managed

Greta McGough

Better Patient Feedback, Better Healthcare

Michelle Porter

Better Health in Harder Times – Active Citizens and Innovation on the Frontline

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Starting out - A gentle, compassionate approach prevented a patient going hungry

Katie Humphries

Readers panel - Open and honest about mistakes

Paul Jebb, Kate Tantam, Elsie Gayle, Alison Crumbie

Meal deal

Level of difficulty

Multi stories

Make yourself heard

Mike Hayward

2013 will bring challenges and opportunities for nurses

Prescription for change

Tamsin Snow

Home from home

Sally Knocker

A chequered past

NMC’s woes leave its future in doubt

Jennifer Trueland

Online help for eating disorders could be beneficial alongside professional treatment

Increased intensity of smoking found to be associated with fatal bladder cancer

Study of antihypertensive drugs reveals combinations that may lead to kidney injury

Individual circumstances are a better indicator of mortality in care homes than age

Warmer weather could increase the risk of myocardial infarction

Clock watching: do longer nursing shifts jeopardise patient care?

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Media storm over end of life care pathway prompts call for training

Tamsin Snow

World in brief

Political notebook 30.01.13

Understand what makes patients tick

Julie’s dedication recognised by hospital

Demand for welfare advice rises as NMC fee increase takes effect

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

Chief nurse to be challenged over district nurse numbers

Savile ‘loathed’ by staff, nurse reveals

Professional leaders grilled by MPs over understaffing in NHS hospitals

Tamsin Snow

RCN members accept agenda for change proposals

Get involved in EU debate, urges college

Language checks and alert system for migrating staff will ‘improve safety’

A&E closure would be a catastrophe

Military jobs cull will see nurses made redundant

Experts offer solutions to problems faced by today’s nurses

Too few admin staff and NHS reform could divert staff from patient care

Sally Gillen

Tell us what you think about your regulator

Graham Scott