Student life - A productive get-together

Joanne Timpson, Janet Ellis

On the move

Notice board

Work passports offer ease of access

Carmen Paun

Where’s the evidence?

Denise O’Leary

Atrial fibrillation

Natalie James

Parenteral nutrition: indications, risks and nursing care

Jane Fletcher

Common skin infections in children

Heulwen Wyatt

Vitamin D deficiency: identifying gaps in the evidence base

Jackie Bentley

Tweets of the week

Corrections

Paul Lloyd was ahead of his time as occupational health adviser

Tom Keighley

There is no such thing as a national health service

Kevin Davies

The government is shirking its humanitarian obligations

Helen Evans

Denying migrants access to the NHS will cause long-term harm

Christine Clark

Jane Bates is right: it is natural for nurses to meddle in health matters

Michael Owen

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

Margaret Paul

Rehab Blues

Kelly Smith

Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare – Second edition

Irene Mabbott

The Epidural Book – A Woman’s Guide to Anesthesia for Childbirth

Mandy Layzell

www.menshealthanswers.co.uk

Martin Steggall

Forensic vision

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - No place for a sales pitch

Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Shona MacLean, Emma Vincent, Sue Szczepanska

Starting out - Treatment of a visually impaired patient showed me her viewpoint

Antonia Kitching

Panic button

David Newnham

A manly act

Jane Bates

Learned resentment

Stella Backhouse

Voices - Change is now essential, and the government must deliver it, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

6Cs + Principles = Care

Linda Watterson

A place to say goodbye

Lynne Pearce

Listen to us before changing services

Alison Moore

Planned home birth poses no worse outcomes than hospital for low-risk women

‘Roll your own’ cigarettes undermine progress in reducing smoking rates

Healthcare assistants are teaching and mentoring nursing students

Low-income patients failing to adhere to medicine regimen for rheumatoid arthritis

Overweight children are more likely to develop asthma

‘It’s not a comfortable time to be a nurse,’ says England’s deputy CNO

Sally Gillen

RCN answers for the past and sets out lessons to learn from Mid Staffs

Kat Keogh

RCN helps to drive improvements at hospitals probed over death rates

Political notebook

World in brief

Mad hatter’s tea party conveys serious point

People taking ‘easy option’ could be behind surge in nursing applications

Kat Keogh

CBT delivered by nurses proves effective in reducing anxiety

Draft curriculum finds room for two nurse icons, but omits Nightingale

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Dementia audit highlights need for increased awareness training

Three-year review of staffing levels

Cavendish recommendations would boost our career prospects, say HCAs

Experience should count as credit for degrees, concludes HCA review

Jennifer Sprinks

NHS in Wales to recruit 300 extra nurses

Values-based recruitment and robust training cuts trust’s HCA turnover

Liverpool care pathway too prescriptive

Nurses could be struck off by NMC for failing to show compassion

Christian Duffin

Patients show their appreciation for our nurse of the year

Sometimes only the law will guarantee quality

Graham Scott