Student life - Try this for an experience

Grace McDonald

On the move

Notice board

Use your influence for good

Mike Higgins

Midwife on a mission

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nutrition and hydration

Michelle Cowan

Diagnosis and management of patients with bronchiectasis

Jane Scullion, Steve Holmes

Informed consent in clinical research

Andrew Pick, Shelley Berry, Kayleigh Gilbert, James McCaul

Causes and consequences of sleep deprivation in hospitalised patients

Stephanie Pilkington

Tweets of the week

Correction

Searching for my friend Mary who I trained with in the 1960s

Theresa Oddie

Don’t overlook psychological care in paracetamol overdose

Sarah Biggs

My GP refuses to refer me to the hospital of my choice

How could we honour the memory of nurse Jacintha?

Jo Nelson

ICN withdrawal does not mean an end to the RCN’s global work

Kevin Davies

Lewisham ruling is a great triumph for the community

Dame Joan Ruddock

Our avalanche helped to expose health secretary’s unlawful act

David Babbs, Susannah Compton, Ian Palmer, Travis Kelly, Blanche Jones

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

Margaret Paul

Hay Fever – How to Beat It

Roger Evans

People-Centred Public Health

Dawn Stott

Militant Lactivism? Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Bríd Hehir

nlcfn.org.uk

Paula Gawthorpe

Workforce

James Buchan

Medicines Management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - I was privileged to hold a patient’s hand and show her that I cared

Kathryn Hunter

Weighing up the pros and cons of kilograms

Irene Heywood Jones

Readers panel - Recognised and responsible

Shona MacLean, Florence Winterflood, Paul Jebb, Linda Drake

Safe staffing

Joyce Robins

Flexible rule

Jane Bates

The techno veterans

Matthew Hodson, Jane Wells

Voices - NMC will aim to right the wrongs found by Francis, says Mark Addison

Mark Addison

More than just a listening ear

Daniel Allen

Preterm infant care

Lynne Paterson, Irene Redpath

‘It is a privilege to be recognised’

Lynne Pearce

Students learning online do at least as well as those using more traditional methods

Use of epilepsy medications in pregnancy may lead to development delays in children

Specialist smoking cessation support in hospital boosts inpatients’ quit rate

Low-dose aspirin taken for at least 3.5 years may prevent colorectal cancer

Women more distressed than men when caring for spouse with cancer

Our aim is to use everyone’s skills

Squeeze on social care budgets leaves nurses to fill in the gaps

Sally Gillen

Hospitals take up students’ designs

Helpline seeks recruits, despite contract sell off

Jennifer Sprinks

World in brief

Chief nurse quits as Mid Staffs dissolution plan unfolds

MacKenzie backs campaign for more nurse peers in the Lords

Kat Keogh

News in brief

‘Perverse’ Treasury pension plan will undermine care

ICN calls for global safe staffing levels

New ‘early warning system’ will support staff who lack compassion

Kat Keogh

Library’s new chapter

Hospital campaigners hope pontiff will block sale

Trusts instigate immediate bans on care pathway

‘Staffing levels a better clue to patient experience than friends and family test’

Francis urges regulator to consider Safe Staffing Alliance evidence

Bank and agency nurses could be ditched as trusts try to cut costs

Kat Keogh, Sally Gillen

Avoid the vital issue of funding at your peril

Janet Snell