Student life - Rapid response team

Deborah Botting

Notice board

Programme helps me improve the quality of care

Lynne Pearce

On the move

Get the job you really want

Mike Higgins

Student assessment

Lisa Dryden

Collaborative health promotion in middle and later stages of dementia

Catharine Jenkins, Ailsa McKay

Patient satisfaction with clinical nurse specialists’ practice

Joanne Baker, Olive Kearins, Emma O’Sullivan, Margaret Casey

Management of hereditary angioedema

John Dempster

Tweets of the week

Hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed by nurses

Julie Hotchkiss

Susan Pembrey was an inspiring nurse and well ahead of her time

Gillian James

The ICN does not seem willing or able to face up to the real world

David Harding-Price

Why is it a stigma to be referred to mental health services?

Jenny Janes

Astounded by lack of a simple falls prevention strategy

We could do with more training and experience to manage HCAs

Georgina Oben

A national campaign is needed to help explain what A&E is really for

Joyce Sparks

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

Margaret Paul

The Island Nurse

Valerie McGurk

What Nobody Sees

Rhian Kant

Renal and Metabolic Disorders

Susan Watkins

yaleruddcenter.org

Roger Evans

Starting out - Roadside experience taught me how to work with a team in an emergency

Sarah Holling

Nurses cannot pick and choose their patients

Drew Payne

Readers panel - Playing the numbers game

Scott Justice, Alison Crumbie, Grace Vanterpool, Jane Brown

Sense of wonder

David Newnham

Learning curve

Jane Bates

Time to get tough

Grant Byrne

Voices - Jane Cummings is pleased with the progress made on Compassion in Practice

Jane Cummings

Ten helpful hints for carers

Jennifer Trueland

Prescriptive approach to staff support

‘I feel stronger and have greater thinking capacity’

Breathe new life into your flagging career

Jennifer Trueland

Safe staffing alliance consensus statement

Eight patients per nurse is unsafe

Jenny Kay

Watching pornography has small effect on young people’s sexual behaviour

Unlike exercise, heavy physical labour damages coronary health

Pain following treatment for breast cancer fluctuates significantly over the years

Midwives should admit the ‘downsides’ of quitting smoking in pregnancy

Older people expect good health care and feel this is delivered

Nursing Standard survey reveals lack of confidence in new NHS

Kat Keogh

Whistleblowers welcome added legal protection against bullying

Political notebook

World in brief

Seacole’s ‘uniqueness’ commemorated

Trusts given two weeks to show they can address crisis in A&Es

Kat Keogh

Physicians call for enhanced care on standard wards for acutely ill

Jennifer Sprinks

Annual service acknowledges society’s debt to nurses

News in brief

182,000 pledges made by staff on NHS Change Day

Best practice guide to prevent malnutrition

Nature knows best for premature baby care

Acute medicine staff show dedication but face burnout

Competencies are set out for practice nurses

Work begins on HCA pilot scheme for nursing students

Daytime staffing levels must never fall below 1:8, says expert group

Janet Snell

Staff show the lengths they will go to for patients

One in ten nurses fears a repeat of Mid Staffs where they work

Kat Keogh

Words are hot air when patient safety is the issue

Graham Scott