Student life - Learning opportunity of a lifetime

Tony Collins

Shifting the focus from disease

Jenny Knight

Notice board

An ideal role for the right nurse

Kathy Oxtoby

Grow your own success

Mike Higgins

Staff appraisal

Surrifah Boodoo

Pressure ulcer prevention in the community setting

Donna Jones

Implications for carers of terminally ill patients dying at home

Paul Beland

Measuring airway inflammation using the fraction of exhaled nitric oxide

Carol Stonham

Obituary

John Adams

Web-based information systems raise many security questions

Mary Whellens

Tweet was misrepresentative of my thoughts on therapeutic lying

Christopher Ball

CCTV treats people in care homes as prisoners and as suspects

Nick Pickles

Tweets of the week

How can bank nurses get a fairer deal from so-called employers?

Liz Smith

Zero-hours contracts can work for employers and employees

Peter Cheese

We do not need to go overseas to recruit good nursing staff

Blame medication errors on the system, not the individual

Andrea Martin

Is revalidation really going to make that much difference to patient care?

Benny Goodman

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

Margaret Paul

Student BMJ app

Rory O’Brien

Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences – Methodologies, Methods and Processes

Nana Theodorou

Autism Trainer Manual – Autism Awareness Training Covering a Level 2 Qualification Unit

Simon Jones

www.england.nhs.uk

Mike Lehane

We must resist the ‘red top’ HIV hysteria

Drew Payne

Readers panel - Tackling smoking in pregnancy

Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Paul Jebb, Elsie Gayle, Jane Brown

Starting out - Being a newborn’s advocate helped me understand neonatal rights

Sarah Bretherton

Serves her right

David Newnham

In elderly shoes

Jane Bates

Listening and learning

Jane Philpott

Voices - Nurses must summon the courage to blow the whistle, says Mark Addison

Mark Addison

Care knew no sides during the troubles

Thelma Agnew

Nurses join debate on splitting the UK

Jennifer Trueland

Self-harm

Patients with bowel disease are more likely to experience tiredness, study finds

Antidepressant use poses risk of haemorrhage for women around childbirth

Specialist nurse-led clinics for rheumatoid arthritis show benefits over doctors’ care

Disability in the over-65s can be warded off with better diet and exercise

Men with fertility problems dissatisfied with their care

Patients and employers given a say on whether nurses are fit to practise

Kat Keogh

One-off £500 million not enough to solve A&E crisis, RCN warns

Kat Keogh

‘Two Tough’ sister shows no fear of jabs

World in brief

Political notebook

Skills academy will help HCAs to access better training courses

Prescribers urged to resist patients’ pleas for antibiotics

Fast action by nurses essential to prevent deaths from sepsis

Sally Gillen

News in brief

Guidance on how to keep patients’ sensitive data safe

New care model cuts conflict

Pressure ulcer and falls figures show trust performance

Royal Navy seeks intrepid nurses for pirate missions off African coast

Christian Duffin

‘Use every chance to promote health’

Volunteer inspector urges others to step up and help

Whistleblower hopes her ‘culture change’ post will be emulated

Nightingale, Seacole and Cavell to be included on curriculum

Revalidation could depend on the quality of employers’ appraisals

Kat Keogh

The legacy of nursing through the Troubles

Graham Scott