Student life - Champions of best practice

Sharon Wimpenny, Julie Sheen

A decade full of achievements

Catharine Sadler

Notice Board

From an African Perspective

Frances Pickersgill

What comes naturally

Geoff Trickey

Mental health emergencies

Anita Skinner

Blood glucose monitoring in diabetes

Paula Holt

The urinary system

Ella McLafferty, Carolyn Johnstone, Charles Hendry, Alistair Farley

Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of gonorrhoea

Rosemarie Turner, Leonie Brown, Clare Davidson, Colin Roberts

Welfare reforms and cuts are hitting people with disabilities

Ken Mack

Electronic medical records fill the gap between care and billing

Liam Scully

UK Biobank is an opt-in model for the sharing of medical records

Joy Davis

Tweets of the week

We need to protect hospitals from closure by politicians

Ian Palmer

Could trusts that cut services end up prosecuted for neglect?

Helen Pratley-Gibbs

The crime of wilful neglect will be expensive and difficult to prove

Stuart Taylor

My Medication Passport app

Daniel Wolstenholme

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

Margaret Paul

Illuminating Florence – Finding Nightingale’s Legacy in Your Practice

Shelagh Daly

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing – Fourth edition

Paul Jebb

National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (UK)

Roger Evans

Engaging questions

James Buchan

Medicines Management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Spinal unit placement taught me importance of bowel management

Rebecca Launchbury

Make foot checks integral to diabetes care

Barbara Young

Readers panel - Nurse wellbeing key to care

Mark Pittman, Emma Vincent, Dave King, Beverley Brathwaite

Doctor’s orders

David Newnham

Finger pointing

Jane Bates

A question of death

Stephen Wright

Voices - Many of the challenges facing nurses are universal, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Better MS services

Jennifer Trueland

Action stations to relieve A&E

Alison Moore

Remotest working

Jacqui Thornton

Atrial fibrillation

Regular mammography ineffective in addressing breast cancer incidence

Smoking cessation linked to improvements in depression, anxiety, stress and positivity

Survival differences in young people with primary and secondary thyroid cancer

Walking may help reduce chances of hospital admission for severe respiratory diseases

People over 50 waking up tired could be at risk of widespread pain

Now we have a chance to improve the benefits assessment system

Stephanie Jones-Berry

‘NHS should distinguish between mistakes and recklessness’

Employing more graduate nurses could save 3,500 lives each year

Sally Gillen, Kat Keogh

World in brief

Finalists announced for 2014 Nursing Standard awards

Political notebook

Clinicians give care in the square for NHS Change Day

Every nurse should be trained to recognise domestic abuse – NICE

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

Serious ‘never events’ listed in new bid to eliminate them

Support for staff as Mid Staffs folds

Support worker certificates ‘will drive up standards’

Mentors need more help to advise poor-performing undergraduates

Jennifer Sprinks

Whistleblowing students require full support and protection

Return-to-practice may be replaced by a competency test

The different types of dementia should be well known

Views being sought by government on offence of wilful neglect

High levels of abuse and bullying could stem from workforce tension

Kat Keogh

NHS is holding up well despite staff pressures

Graham Scott

More investment needed in advanced nurse practitioners to bolster emergency care

Nurse’s research highlights vital work of diabetes specialists

News digest March 11 2014

Terminally ill fail to receive suitable care at home

News digest 05 March 2014

‘Reckless policy’ of senior nurse cuts could affect patient safety, RCN warns

News digest 06 March 2014

More nurses could stop NHS ‘failing older people’

Nurses call for overhaul of benefits assessments

News digest 07 March 2014

Outpatient services not good enough, watchdog warns

Nurse awarded payout after sustaining injuries at work

News digest March 10 2014