Student life - Leading the next generation

Julie Griffiths

Taxing matters

Teri Harman

A traditional role in decline

Lynne Pearce

Notice board

Debate, discuss, develop

Jane Redfern Jones

Prostate cancer

Ruth Outhwaite

Providing constructive feedback to students during mentoring

Kathleen Duffy

Safe administration of intravenous iron therapy

Shirley Smith

Cross-cultural communication barriers in health care

Shena Parthab Taylor, Colette Nicolle, Martin Maguire

Tweets of the week

Correction

Royal london hospital set P28 plans 30th anniversary reunion

Fran Sibthorpe

Trans people report significant prejudice within health services

Jay McNeil, Maeve Regan

Can anyone help me disseminate my body of nursing research?

Felicity Stockwell

Commercial probiotic yogurts have few, if any, health benefits

Helen Evans

Nurse managers risk losing sight of quality patient care

Matthew Hodson

Why does the government assume there are problems with all nurses?

Claire Picton

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

Margaret Paul

Parkinson’s Disease – A Personal Account in Pictures

Roger Evans

Social Media for Nurses – Educating Practitioners and Patients in a Networked World

Gemma Finnegan

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence – Seventh edition

Irene Mabbott

Starting out - I must confront my own health problems if I am to care for others

Emily Kraus

Readers panel - The burden of entitlement

Linda Drake, Craig Hopkins, Jane Scullion, Esther Tanton

James Buchan explains why some trusts are upping expenditure on temporary staff

James Buchan

Transcribing of medicines should only be undertaken in exceptional circumstances

Matt Griffiths

Clinicians need national guidance on physical restraint

Dave King

Teletubby health

Passing fad

Just like you and me

Stephen Wright

Nurses in every setting can help improve dementia care

‘Nursing charity gave me a lifeline’

Tony Collins

A place to feel secure

Clare Lomas

When the patient is your mum

Jennifer Trueland

Mental disorders are strongly associated with risk of death by homicide

Information about resuming sex postpartum may allay anxiety in new parents

Techniques for training memory boost nutrition in people with dementia

Association between aspirin use and lower melanoma risk warrants further investigation

Children prefer the flavour of ibuprofen over other analgesics

Can cash-strapped health boards afford to ignore safe staffing levels?

Sue Learner

World in brief

Patient records are ‘too defensive’

Notice period extended for NHS Direct nurses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Statutory duty of candour rejected

Annual appraisals will focus on staff values

DH consults on setting up list of managers barred from NHS

New chief inspector of hospitals could demand more NHS nurses

Jennifer Sprinks

Hunt rejects calls for statutory HCA regulation

Managers should do more to support long-serving nurses under stress

Extra funding for HCAs who want to become nurses

Targeted training planned in older people’s care

Ward sisters must be supervisory, ministers tell NHS trust boards

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Hunt’s one-year work experience plan is ‘unworkable’, say academics

Jennifer Sprinks

This post-Francis vision is blurred and misguided

Graham Scott