Student life - Primary experience

Sharon Burrows

Notice board

Providing an extra strand of support

Erin Dean

On the move

Ready, steady, go for it

Daniel Allen

Atrial fibrillation

Anita Skinner

Successful preceptorship of newly qualified nurses

Bob Price

Diagnosis and management of patients with Bell’s palsy

Tracy Mooney

Genetics: examining your competency of practice on a regular basis

Caroline Benjamin, Jan Birch, Aoife Bradley, Gail Mannion

Tweets of the week

Zero-hours contracts lead to gross exploitation of workers

Steve Turner

NHS chaplains are professional members of the healthcare team

Mark Burleigh

Do not employ more admin staff at the expense of the front line

Marian DeLancey

Where are the unions when it comes to whistleblowing?

Michael Owen

A fresh approach is needed to help smokers who want to quit

Ailsa Rutter

Help inpatients by offering them nicotine replacement therapy

Jennifer Percival

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

Margaret Paul

Nursing Central app

Helen Sullivan

On a Wing and a Prayer – Flight to Redemption

Kelly Smith

Caring in Nursing Classics – An Essential Resource

John Adams

College of Health Care Chaplains

Roger Evans

Sign of the times

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - It was a surprise and an inspiration to meet someone unafraid of dying

Tricia List

Numbers game

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Providing food for thought

Dave King, Craig Hopkins, Alison Crumbie, Elsie Gayle

Aisle be there

David Newnham

Give me a break

Jane Bates

Open to inspection

Stephen Wright

Voices - Black and minority ethnic nurses lack recognition, writes Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

How the 6Cs made us a stronger team

Sarah Smail

Match words with actions

Alison Moore

Nursing a sense of family

Lynne Pearce

Child obesity

Support needed to address surgeons’ emotional wellbeing following complications

Academics might have increased public anxiety and demand for flu drugs

Testosterone therapy increases risk of death or serious conditions

Bisphosphonates may help to reduce bone loss caused by antiepileptic drugs

Hospitalisation of pregnant women raises risk of blood clots

The named nurse concept: ‘But we have been doing this for years’

Sally Gillen

Late shifts aim to deliver better winter care

Police launch investigation into claims of falsified cancer lists

Kat Keogh

World in brief

Political notebook

Scotland could break away on pay if the ‘yes’ campaign wins

News in brief

NICE gives green light to wound treatment technique

Lack of specialist lung cancer care

Trust-wide smoking ban reduces violence and promotes cessation

Jennifer Sprinks

Sister honoured for ward plan

Revalidation fears for those appraised by chief execs

CNO wants to ‘shine a light’ on the realities of everyday care

Sally Gillen

Boards need to share responsibility for safe staffing levels

Hunt focuses on patient safety and defining success

Chief nurse and minister launch guide to identifying malnutrition risk

Protestors give voice to staffing concerns

New recruitment campaign may encourage nurse leavers to return

Kat Keogh, Sally Gillen

Equipment and staffing are vital to 6Cs’ success

Graham Scott