Student life - Combined expertise

Erin Dean

Course resource

Notice board

Map your work to prove your worth

Alison Leary

We’re here to help you

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Quantitative research

Lyn Norkett

The effect of organisational culture on patient safety

Gerri Kaufman, Dorothy McCaughan

National audit of bedside transfusion practice

Susan Cottrell, Victoria Davidson

Quality control in urodynamics

Shanteela McCooty, Pallavi Latthe

Dorothy Ebersbach

Roger Evans

Don a pair of gloves to raise awareness of scleroderma

Ann Stirling

It is okay to cry at work but only when well away from patients

Bridget Ryan

Placement of nasogastric tubes must be checked thoroughly

Purvi Gor

It is time to accept that health care is a round-the-clock job

Sally-Ann Henson

Tweets of the week

Nurses should not be obliged to force-feed political prisoners

Gay Lee

There are no simple answers in forensic mental health

Geraint Jones

Reports of poor care are still dismissed or handled clumsily

Whistleblowers are heroes who should be rewarded for bravery

David Lewis

Long-standing concerns over the former head of the CQC

Joyce Robins

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

Margaret Paul

theschwartzcenter.org

Roger Evans

Reading Research: A User-Friendly Guide for Health Professionals – Fifth edition

Greta McGough

Compassion, Caring and Communication: Skills for Nursing Practice – Second edition

Matthew Hodson

Secrets to Success for Professionals in the Autism Field – An Insider’s Guide to Understanding the Autism Spectrum, the Environment and Your Role

Simon Jones

Starting out - A patient with learning disabilities confounded my preconceptions

Helen Ballantyne

Let’s keep breast cancer risks in perspective

Victoria Harmer

Readers panel - Equal care seven days a week

Scott Justice, Esther Tanton, Linda Drake, Shona MacLean

Body mysteries

David Newnham

Handy to know

Jane Bates

Knowledge is power

Jocelyn Habens

Voices - Everyone from nurses to cabbies can improve public health, says Viv Bennett

Viv Bennett

Evidence shows staff ratios can work

Daniel Allen

Too painful to be trivialised

Erin Dean

Rescuing the vulnerable

Erin Dean

African Americans wait longer for prostate cancer treatment than Caucasians

Eating disorders that fall short of anorexia or bulimia are on the rise among teenagers

Nurses urged to ask parkinson’s patients about brain donation

Bed sharing with infants is risky, even when the parents are non-smokers

Alzheimer’s disease less common in people with non-melanoma skin cancer

Hospitals prepare for clampdown on unacceptable care standards

Kat Keogh

Distinctive community look

Demands on NHS nurses may be too great to stop exodus of over-50s

Jennifer Sprinks

Report reveals staff uncertainties over the use of physical restraint

World in brief

Political notebook

Care standards programme garners patient approval

Staff ‘uncomfortable’ talking about dying

News in brief

Change in approach to governance of nurse education programmes

Jennifer Sprinks

Reps to help directors decide when to make FtP referrals

Jackie Smith takes the helm

Nurses design ‘dignity bra’

Essential staffing levels for safe children’s care updated by RCN

Kat Keogh

Chief nurse at troubled foundation trust leaves her post

College campaigns for health visiting sustainability

Unions ready to fight expected attack on incremental pay

Seacole appeal gains celebrity ambassador

Trust displays nurses’ names above beds to show who is responsible

Jennifer Sprinks

The government can’t have it both ways

Graham Scott