Student life - Crossing the great divide

Petra Kendall-Raynor

On the move

Notice board

Refer to the experts for quality

Kathy Oxtoby

Ready for duty to call

Kelly Bennett

Depression

Rose Gallacher

Promoting the 6Cs of nursing in patient assessment

Chris Clarke

The future of learning disabilities nursing in the UK

Anthony Clapham

Developing cultural sensitivity and awareness in nursing overseas

Diane Norton, Diane Marks-Maran

Tweets of the week

Work of staff in the independent sector is often overlooked

Liz Ledger

Contributions are welcomed on how to prevent dementia

Baroness Sally Greengross

Commissioners need to be set free from bureaucracy and diktats

David Weaver

Designing health policies to win votes is despicable behaviour

Clive Peedell

Our NHS is a world leader, but it could do more on prevention

Christine Clark

The gap is widening between front line staff and managers

Sally Harding

In the face of more budget cuts, nurses face uphill struggle to secure fair pay

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

Triabetes: Your Diabetes All-In-One app

Margaret Arthur

The Introductory Guide to Art Therapy – Experimental Teaching and Learning for Students and Practitioners

Natalie Shaw

Mental Health Nursing – Case Book

Shelagh Daly

Patient Safety in the NHS

Roger Evans

No initial signs of brain drain

James Buchan

Medicines Management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Witnessing exemplary patient care taught me a lesson in compassion

Lijun Ding

Altered state

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Come work with me (it’s worth £450)

Edwin Chamanga, Rebecca Harper, Scott Justice, Linda Drake

Just desserts

David Newnham

GPS support

Jane Bates

Silence your inner critic

Stephen Wright

Voices - Congress momentum will push RCN’s campaign for fair pay, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Support to live a good life with dementia

Mary-Claire Mason

On the home front in fight against malaria

Jacqui Thornton

Intravenous therapy close to home

Lynne Pearce

Duty to speak up

Alistair Kleebauer

Illicit drug use

Children who survive liver transplant have poor long-term nutritional status

Gluten-free diet aids cognitive as well as physical wellbeing in coeliac disease

Community palliative care teams enable patients to avoid late-life use of acute services

Systematic programme of TB treatment reduced prevalence as well as illness duration

Higher red meat intake in young women increases breast cancer risk

‘Improvements need to be made but we are now an effective regulator’

Katie Osborne

Consultation on NMC revalidation raises issues with feedback system

Alistair Kleebauer

Florence’s Crimea colleague is on the path to sainthood

World in brief

Political notebook

RCN backs Lib Dems’ plan for legal mandate on nurse staffing

Nurses in the driving seat for street triage scheme

New approach at end of life focuses on better communication and safety

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Change in shift patterns could prove beneficial to patients

Feedback tool helps improve teamwork

Western front matron honoured

Hospital rating system worthless, insists Safe Staffing Alliance chair

Christian Duffin

Trust’s chief nurse refutes ‘unfair’ verdict of CQC

Sheffield Hallam University invites nurse returners

Health secretary apologises to victims of Savile who were ‘let down badly’

College celebrates diversity at this year’s Pride in London parade

NMC failing to hit key performance targets but is improving, says report

Katie Osborne

Nurses need support to blow the whistle

Graham Scott

News digest July 02 2014

News digest July 03 2014

NMC chief upbeat about regulator's progress

Failure to tackle FGM is a national scandal, MPs say

News digest July 04 2014

Patients with multiple sclerosis lack support in managing chronic bowel problems

Front line nurses in Wales need more training in handling patient complaints

News digest July 07 2014

RCN general secretary joins the call for national NHS funding debate

Edith Cavell to feature on £5 commemorative coin

News digest July 08 2014

Nurses should adopt new techniques for restraint in mental health settings, ministers say

Patients with advanced breast cancer want more time with healthcare professionals