Student life - A wealth of possibilities

Kath Sharples

Notice board

Devolution into the bargain

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Inspiring a generation

Michelle McBride

Deep vein thrombosis

Mike Jackson

Hypertension: diagnosis, assessment and management

Jill Bunker

Involving service users in delivering alcohol addiction therapy

Clementinah Rooke, Benjamin Jones, Michele Thomas

Rectus sheath catheter infusions for post-operative pain management

Mandy Layzell

Tweets of the week

Help us in our ambition to end FGM in the UK within a generation

Norman Baker

Government’s failure to legislate puts unsustainable onus on NMC

Jackie Smith

Personal healthcare budgets fail to meet ‘the general good’

Eileen McGinn

Care assistant regulation would help improve care home quality

Marc Evans

Decision to spell out basic care duties in new code is patronising

Naomi Lyth

Using the carrot and stick approach to improve care is not the solution

Helena Soni

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

Margaret Paul

MediBabble Translator app

Shelagh Daly

Feminist Evaluation and Research – Theory and Practice

Steph Caldwell

Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses – Second edition

Lesley Dee

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Margaret Arthur

Starting out - Becoming a caremaker allowed me to share my passion with others

Elizabeth Pinder

Care home residents with diabetes deserve better

Alan Sinclair

Readers panel - The test that patients dread

Emma Vincent, Daniel Athey, Craig Hopkins, Kate Tantam

Please give way

David Newnham

Be prepared

Jane Bates

When hurt goes deep

Zeba Arif

Voices - Nurses now have to collect spurious information on staffing, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Honesty will always be the best policy

Delivering best care in war and peace

Alison Moore

Bowel cancer

Gradual decrease in H pylori infection linked to rise in the global obesity pandemic

Vitamin C supplementation improves lung function of pregnant smokers’ babies

Greater NHS spending in deprived areas leads to reduction in health inequalities

Risk of new diabetes rises in patients prescribed higher potency statins

Bilingualism linked to better cognitive ability in later life

Wright Angle - Stephen Wright’s monthly take on nursing in the news

Stephen Wright

Employers welcome guidance on performance-related pay systems

Katie Osborne

‘Nurses are not just there for when patients are ill’

Kat Keogh

World in brief

Nursing celebrated in Queen’s birthday honours

Leg club staff showcase their work

Stroke nurses to take part in global trial of patient positioning policies

Alistair Kleebauer

Tracheostomy training needed

News in brief

Alert issued over potentially fatal use of suction drains

District nursing could face extinction by 2025

Staff demonstrate outside congress to highlight NHS pay inequalities

NICE told to beef up its guidance on safe staffing

Employers ‘raid’ poorer countries after five years of training cuts

Chief executive pay hikes ‘a kick in the teeth for nurses’, says RCN

Kat Keogh

Pay strike would leave patients in the lurch, Carter tells RCN congress

Kat Keogh

Double standard on pay dishonours profession

Graham Scott

News digest June 18 2014

Stop taking nurses for granted, warns Mid Staffs inquiry chair

RCN congress day 3

News digest June 19 2014

NMC halves the time it takes to investigate fitness to practise cases

£40 million funding for 500 new health visitors in Scotland

News digest June 20 2014

Trust taken out of special measures following ‘significant’ progress

Nurses can help identify patients at risk of stroke due to incorrect medication

News digest June 23 2014

Nurse role showcased in Public Health England’s week of action

Sugar tax would help cut obesity and preventable conditions, government told

News digest June 24 2014

New shift patterns aim to spread the nursing workload and improve patient care

Nurse staffing levels published online