Student life - Simulation brought to life

Mandy Brailsford, Deborah Clark, Robin Gissing

On the move

Notice board

Travelling to make a difference

Lynne Pearce

Kickstart your career

Frances Pickersgill

Dengue fever

Anita Skinner

Promoting continence in women following childbirth

Mary Steen

Female genital mutilation: a literature review

Louise Terry, Kate Harris

Therapeutic lying in dementia care

Helen Culley, Robert Barber, Angela Hope, Ian James

Tweets of the week

Hiring nurses from abroad is no way to overcome staff shortages

Zeba Arif

Hospital food will improve only when its budgets are ring-fenced

Joyce Robins, Roger Goss

Punitive military action in syria will just prolong the suffering

Marion Birch

Staff concentration EBBS in the last few hours of long shifts

Eddie Crunden

It is difficult to switch off, particularly after long, busy and unsocial shifts

Helen Slater

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

Margaret Paul

Best Health Type 1 Diabetes app

Rory O’Brien

Mosby’s Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions – Seventh edition

Nicola Evans

The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside – Second edition

Simon McGurk

1930fundfornurses.org

John Adams

Workforce

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Patients with dementia often need that little bit of extra time

Ruvarashe P Tembo

Gender divide in the dangers of melanoma

Martin Ledwick

Readers panel - Holby City has caused a stir

Emma Vincent, Paul Jebb, Elsie Gayle, Shona MacLean

Inconvenienced

David Newnham

Smart thinking

Jane Bates

Check the small print

Mike Travis

Voices - We need to encourage and celebrate exceptional care, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

Wellbeing in mind

Jennifer Trueland

Integrated care is here and it works

Erin Dean

Testicular cancer

Stroke still poses a bigger risk for Mexican Americans compared to non-Hispanic whites

Non-smokers who breastfeed for more than six months gain protection from breast cancer

Post-traumatic stress and alcohol dependence can be treated at the same time

Close contact with an infected person is a risk factor for catching new strain of bird flu

Kidney stones linked to coronary heart disease in women but not men

Reduced support for HCAs to enter nursing now it is graduate-only

Jennifer Sprinks

Care standards being met by Countrywide

Barts consults with staff on review of 600 nursing posts

World in brief

Treatment unit reopens after revamp

Trusts to publish data on patient safety in a bid to improve care

Jennifer Sprinks

Simple ward checks could prevent deaths due to acute kidney injury

Kat Keogh

Nurses’ ability in maths under increasing scrutiny

News in brief

Work to begin on devising new end of life pathway

Autism advice for better interaction

Mid staffs faces court over death of diabetic patient

Report shows school nurses are key in spotting signs of child abuse

Kat Keogh

Bed pods increase patients’ privacy

Whistleblowing students help to send HCAs to jail

High-flyers management course to take on second cohort in 2014

Scaling Snowdon for nurses’ trust

Nurses warned of ethical perils of lying to patients with dementia

Jennifer Sprinks

If truth hurts, will lying take the pain away?

Graham Scott