Student life - Honing vital skills in practice

Maggie Bennett, Gemma McVeigh

Risk assessment processes that minimise unintended outcomes

Julie Hyde

Notice board

Expertise from the continent

Ancuta Neacsu

Brokers for education

Lesley Whyte

Vulnerability

Rose Gallacher

Assessment and management of paracetamol poisoning in adults

Janice Pettie, Margaret Dow

Management of burns in intensive and acute care

Gabby Rowley-Conwy

Reviewing the evidence for advanced dressings

Martyn Butcher, Richard White

Peri-operative hypothermia: implications for practice

Moyra Journeaux

Tweets of the week

Legacy of a nurse and pioneering aviator lives on in her bequests

Julie Read

Nurses need resources to do the job safely and properly

Susan Wayman

Tribunal ruling will shatter ‘glass ceiling’ in the military

I run an immunisation clinic, but am concerned about vaccination

Richard Halvorsen

Welsh opt-out law on donating organs will alienate the public

Joyce Robins

Nursing super-managers need specialist knowledge

Bridget Ryan

The fuss over migrants serves as a distraction from bigger problems

Bríd Hehir

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

Margaret Paul

Framework for Reducing Restrictive Practices

Simon Jones

Spitting Blood – The History of Tuberculosis

John Adams

The Citizen Patient – Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

Dawn Stott

lindalliance.org

Daniel Wolstenholme

Starting out - Patients who speak no english may feel overwhelmed and isolated

Frances Wilby

Ex-services sight charity is waiting for your referrals

Suzanne Kent

Readers panel - A case of too much information

Scott Justice, Linda Drake, Stephanie Cumming, Jane Brown

Identity crisis

David Newnham

Look away now

Jane Bates

Collaborative therapy

Steve Jones, Fiona Lobban

Voices - This is a time to remember how and why the NHS was created, says Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Online road to self-recovery

Lynne Pearce

Controlled route to the treats

Rewarding journey

Jennifer Trueland

Good practice is all in the game

Placement students work harder to make the grade

Finding a better way to support mentors

Erin Dean

Exposure to general anaesthetic increases the risk of dementia in older people

Antibiotic prophylaxis before catheter removal helps prevent urinary tract infection

Antidepressant use minimises likelihood of heart disease caused by mental stress

Online social networking site prompts surge in organ donor registrations

Erectile dysfunction in younger men may be underestimated

We asked nurses to give us their views of the regulator

Watchdog re-focuses attention on NMC’s fitness to practise cases

Kat Keogh

News in brief

Trust to slash senior nurses’ posts in bid to cut pay bill

MPs call for a BME focus to dementia services

Rita delivers guilt-free pizza

National NHS strategy seeks to accelerate number of organ donors

Sarah Harrison, Stephanie Jones-Berry

Promise of 1,200 jobs in Abu Dhabi rouses interest in working overseas

Kat Keogh

Political notebook

World in brief

Regular health checks and advice should be available to night shift staff

Training body asks for evidence of workforce needs

Named staff will stop vulnerable people ‘falling through the cracks’

Productivity in the NHS up by 8% in as many years

Teddy bear designed to teach children

Boom in nurse researchers brings more patients into clinical trials

Christian Duffin

UK celebrates 65th birthday of NHS

Holding directors to account for abuse could hinder recruitment

Jennifer Sprinks

Nurse directors need to be equipped for the job

Graham Scott