Legal advice

Richard Griffith

Blood glucose checks

Robin Lewis

Passion for workplace learning brings award

Jenny Knight

Chest infection helped me see patients’ view

Florence Winterflood

Forensic support

Emma Durmaz

Mandatory training structure vital before general election

Susan Webb

Small steps with big results

Jenny Knight

News update

Courses & Resources

Investment in a career pathway

Jacqueline Davies

Student life - Aiming to go the extra smile

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Support for family carers

Sheila Payne, Hazel Morbey

Notice Board

How to progress your career

Daniel Allen

Two-way development

David Atherton

Topical treatments

Hannah Marriage

Avoiding plagiarism: guidance for nursing students

Bob Price

Developing good practice for clinical research nurses

Shona McDermott, Kornelia Hathaway, Caroline Saunders

Diagnosis and treatment of adults with scalp psoriasis

Carla Renton

Tweets of the week

Are there any colleagues of Betty Sheppard Moore out there?

Lisa Sheppard Price

Radio 4’s Inside Health is great at demystifying difficult topics

Michael Owen

It is absurd that a commission on nursing is male-dominated

Stephen G Wright

Making hospital data available is vital for ongoing improvements

Jenny Lewis

We could still be identified from our ‘anonymised’ medical data

Jack Robinson

The care.data plan has been delayed, but the fight goes on

Martin Caldwell

Cutting and downgrading services to achieve foundation status is madness

Neil Adams

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

Margaret Paul

WomanLog app

Holly Howe Watson

Therapy Talk – Conversation Analysis in Practice

Shelagh Daly

Advanced Practice Nursing Ethics in Chronic Disease Self-Management

Marc Cornock

Wedinos

Nicola Evans

Starting out - Listening to a family’s problems helped me develop resilience

Daisy Cook

Let’s sleep on it

David Newnham

Wrong target

Jane Bates

Helping hands

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - The high price of regulation

Drew Payne, Scott Justice, Elsie Gayle, Kate Tantam

Patients’ own words

Ali Stunt

Voices - See how compassion can message be powered by technology, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

All in a day’s work

Jennifer Trueland

Make the pledge

Jennifer Trueland

Delivering digitally

Daloni Carlisle

Prostate cancer

Couples in Denmark more likely to split if fertility clinic referral fails to result in child

Trebling in use of insulin reflects higher rates of type 2 diabetes and longer survival

Early treatment reduces duration of seizures in children with FSE

Smokers are less physically able and have lower quality of life than non-smokers

Animal products used in drugs commonly prescribed in the UK

Nurses in successful trusts helping ‘special measures’ hospitals improve

Nurse leaders hope to head for Harvard

RCN signs up to ‘999 plan’ aimed at improving delivery of crisis care

Jennifer Sprinks

World in brief

Health visitors unable to provide children’s named person service

Political notebook

News in brief

Charity in £1 million appeal to fund allergy specialists

Struggling trusts to be re-inspected

Nurses are in ‘perfect place’ to offer psychological therapy to patients

Christian Duffin

Employers reward staff’s efforts to boost flu jab uptake

Cancer survivor to run marathon

Hundreds continue to practise despite lapsed NMC registrations

Jennifer Sprinks

Trust regulator criticises large overspend on agency staff

Disability testing company seeks to end its contract

New batch of potential nurses joining HCA pilot scheme

Surgical patients at greater risk of dying if nurses are overworked

The hospital-wide smoking ban is too difficult to enforce, trusts find

Sally Gillen

There’s still time to make a pledge for Change Day

Graham Scott

Key recommendations of NICE guidance on domestic violence

News digest 27 February 2014

Trusts ‘buddy up’ to improve patient care

Trust reprimanded by ombudsman for distressing the parents of a baby who died

News digest February 28 2014

Pre-entry care pilot’s attrition is not all bad, says Health Education England

Jennifer Sprinks

Pilot to test value of ‘care certificate’ for support workers

Jennifer Sprinks

News digest March 03 2014

Projects tackling older people’s social problems win £10 million in lottery funding

Cost-driven community care is damaging the reputation of nursing, says RCN

Kat Keogh

News digest March 04 2014

Nurses benefit from technology fund for time-saving devices

Nightingale’s Crimean legacy an example for today’s NHS

Kat Keogh

News digest February 26 2014

Nurses need to be trained in recognising and tackling domestic violence