Student life - Lessons in compassion

Liz Adamson

‘I needed job flexibility that the NHS had been unable to provide’

Notice board

How to make the most of agency working

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Time for reflection

Erin Dean

Breathlessness

Tracy Mooney

Promoting compassionate care through learning journeys

Bob Price

Evaluating handover practice in an acute NHS trust

William Gage

Perspectives of person-centred care

Eva Elisabeth Steenbergen, Roos-Marie van der Steen, Stephen Smith, Carolyn Bright, Maarten M Kaaijk

Anna Wing

John Adams

End of liverpool care pathway is unjustified and unwarranted

Bríd Hehir

Research reveals ways to inspire and encourage our compassion

Liz Adamson

Tweets of the week

Overstretched nurses need help to reconnect with vital values

Ginny Colwell

The ‘educated woman’ is a red herring in the caring debate

Amid joy of royal birth, Jacintha Saldanha should be remembered

Shaibya Dalal

The job of clinicians is to care, regardless of migration status

Margaret Morley

Calls for more research into the safety of mercury in vaccines

Harry Francis

An integrated model of health and social care remains a pipe dream

Brian Jones

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

Margaret Paul

Writing for Publication in Nursing and Healthcare – Getting it Right

Greta McGough

Beyond the Checklist – What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety

Dan Wolstenholme

Introducing Pharmacology for Nursing and Healthcare – Second edition

William Scott

nhscampaign.org

Gay Lee

Political football

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - The ethics of opting in or out

Scott Justice, Bríd Hehir, Alison Crumbie, Esther Tanton

Starting out - Mapping a food island is my route to better nutrition for older people

Shahida Yasmin

Spread the word

Christina Patterson

Passing the buck

Jane Bates

The untold story

Claire Docherty

Voices - Yvonne Coghill mounts a stirring defence of the NHS and its nursing staff

Yvonne Coghill

Options on obesity

Erin Dean

Catheter care the Pennine way

Erin Dean

‘I just want someone to talk to’

Life after cancer

Jennifer Trueland

Waiting before clamping the cord can bring better outcomes for babies

Exercise programmes fail to keep depression at bay in care home residents

Specialist care for dementia patients has little impact on length of hospital stay

Prevalence of mental disorders in offspring is not increased by IVF and ICSI techniques

Fracture risk following menopause is reduced by combining medications

‘Regulators are not here to be liked, but I want the NMC to be respected’

Kat Keogh

A&E nurses struck off for falsifying records

Former Mid Staffs nursing director denies 29 breaches of NMC code

Sally Gillen

World in brief

Midwives’ royal role overlooked

RCN quits global body over its fees, but bill for arrears looms

News in brief

Pledges to act over failings in learning disabilities services

Hypnotism aims to cut student stress

Trusts make plans to relieve growing pressure on emergency services

Jennifer Sprinks

Schoolchildren learn first aid skills

Job ads seek nursing hopefuls for pilot scheme in pre-training care

Jennifer Sprinks

Hospital recreates past for centenary

Think tank presses case for flexible pay packages

Pressure of work could be behind rise in sickness rates

Campaigners lobby for the return of Nightingale to national curriculum

Hospital-formula moisturiser proves a hit with the public

‘Stop-start recruitment of nurses is damaging morale and patient care’

Christian Duffin

The post-Francis boom will be followed by bust

Graham Scott