Student life - Putting theory into practice

Alex Ocampo

Notice board

A healthy regard for the legal system

Mick Coughlan

Tailoring job descriptions

Jan Parfitt

South Asian experience

Fran Hulme

Prevention of surgical site infection

Pauline Harrington

Applying social impact assessment to nursing research

Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Julie Taylor

Improving end of life care for people with dementia

Ann Regan, Michael Tapley, Davis Jolley

Mike Lehane 1961-2014

Steve Maddern

Stan Wilkins 1908-2013

John Adams

Tweets of the week

Barts Hospital October 1989 set is planning a 25th reunion

Melanie Harwood

Force-feeding people is wrong and nurses should play no part

Paul Hegarty

We should be pushing for a much larger pay rise than 1 per cent

Christine Clark

The RCN stance on nurses’ pay sees to have hit stony ground

Zeba Arif

Safe staffing discussions always overlook community nursing

Trusts in trouble need supportive help, not excessive intervention

Naomi Lyth,

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

Margaret Paul

Speak It! Text to Speech app

Nicola Evans

Words for Wellbeing – Using Creative Writing to Benefit Health and Wellbeing

Peter Barraclough

Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease and Children – Seventh edition

Simon McGurk

Arts for Health – Milton Keynes

Roger Evans

Charity case

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Yours, for only £4 per hour

Jane Brown, Emma Vincent, Scott Justice, Stephanie Cumming

Starting Out - Roy’s care plan depended on staff teamwork and pooling of resources

Ruth Bland

The whole tooth

David Newnham

Help shape the law

Ian Hulatt

Voices - Never stop campaigning for safe staffing levels, urges Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

And relax...

Jane Bates

Making drugs safe

Stoicism and care in the face of carnage

Christine Hallett

Crohn’s disease

Tobacco industry influenced studies to promote smoking’s ‘protective’ properties

Back pain not associated with temperature, humidity, air pressure, rain or wind direction

Children being treated for cancer benefit from intervention programme

Increasing rate of testicular cancer among US Hispanics will affect healthcare system

Corticosteroids given to children with asthma could suppress growth

‘That it has come to this shows how angry and frustrated nurses are’

Kat Keogh, Alistair Kleebauer

More district nurses are qualifying but numbers in NHS still ‘eroded’

Alistair Kleebauer

Games call-up is triathlete’s dream come true

World in brief

Political notebook

Leading groups unite in bid to improve BME staff prospects

News in brief

Further charges brought in falsification of records case

Advice on care of vulnerable people

Assessment guidance would help staff pinpoint under-fives at risk

Alistair Kleebauer

Hospital trials patient monitoring system

Skydiving jump in aid of bladder scanner

Move to make NMC registration fee payable in instalments next year

Kat Keogh

£32 for 100 wipes – what a waste of NHS money

College becomes an accredited living wage employer

Commons committee report recommends scrapping flawed disability benefit

RCN honoured for supporting reservists

Threat of industrial action looms as nurses vent their anger on pay

Kat Keogh

Politicians alienate nurses at their peril

Janet Snell

News digest July 30 2014

News digest July 31 2014

Lib Dems move closer to making minimum nurse-patient staffing ratios law in Wales

Spectre of industrial action shows extent of pay-freeze anger among NHS nurses and midwives

News digest August 01 2014

Nurses in Northern Ireland feel blamed for A&E problems, says RCN

Health Education England invites nurses to share their views on education and training

News digest August 04 2014

Researchers to explore possible benefits of exercise for people with leg ulcers

Nurses applauded for work with anxiety disorder patients

News digest August 05 2014

US study shows nurses benefit from naturally lit wards

GPs succumb to patient pressure as antibiotic prescribing surges by 40 per cent