Student life - Priorities for placements

Jean Gray

Notice board

Could you be a research nurse?

Poorna Rodrigo

Course resource

Stand out in a crowd

Jane Redfern Jones

Ethical practice

Leanne Dobb

Patient safety: threats and solutions

Dorothy McCaughan, Gerri Kaufman

Prevention and management of incontinence-associated dermatitis

Alison Bardsley

The role of nurses in medicine administration errors

Kerri Wright

Local government cuts make it hard to prioritise public health

Helen Cole

Effectiveness of public health messages needs to be considered

Michael Owen

Debate on safe staffing levels should focus on the community

Tweets of the week

The lack of round-the-clock community care cost me dearly

Inexperienced ‘super managers’ move from high-paid job to job

Geoffrey Lucas

We have tried named nurses on wards before, with little success

Sarah Byrd

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

Margaret Paul

The Sociology of Health and Illness – Third edition

Greta McGough

Experiment Eleven – Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis

John Adams

How to Master Nursing Calculations – Second edition

Karen Murrell

oldermenswellbeing.co.uk

Daniel Allen

Workforce

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Know your news but don’t forget your ‘A to E’ when assessing patients

Hannah Davies

Position of trust

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - A lesson in healthy eating

Craig Hopkins, Emma Vincent, Sue Szczepanska, Jane Brown

Fit and proper

David Newnham

Busybody

Jane Bates

Following the call

Stephen Wright

Voices - Performance report shows NMC is on the right track, says Mark Addison

Mark Addison

Safely reducing the risk of human error

Care at just a touch

Clare Lomas

Recovery through suggestion

Lynne Pearce

‘It feels different from a hospital’

Lessons in delivering good care

Erin Dean

Increasing oseltamivir dosage does not speed up recovery from severe influenza

Algorithm-based care for older people with depression reduces mortality risk

Partial liver grafts from adult deceased donors can address shortfall in child liver donors

Living or working in a rural environment linked to Parkinson’s disease

Shorter course of glucocorticoids still treats COPD effectively

‘Support network was vital at first’

European influx helps plug the gaps, but for how much longer?

Sally Gillen

Political notebook

Calls for whistleblowing lead and standardised policy at every trust

Jennifer Sprinks

World in brief

RAF’s top nurse wins sexism case

Assessment cuts the risk of blood clots

30,000 back Seacole as banknote star

Nurses angered by chancellor’s slur on public sector workers

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Diabetes audit reveals deficiencies in hospital care

Mental health staff join police call-outs

NHS England to host ‘big conversation’ on primary care

Retirement-age health visitors offered sweeteners to stay in work

Key policies are being decided without nurses

Call for more front line staff to join NICE expert guidelines groups

Every nurse urged to wage war on obesity and high blood pressure

Sally Gillen

Film on organ donation shortlisted for award

Regulator has improved, but is still failing to meet key standards

Kat Keogh

Chancellor’s news could be much worse

Graham Scott