Student life - African learning experience

Holly Howe Watson

Sharps practice in focus

Paul de Raeve

Notice board

Bringing the clinic to the class

John Salkeld

Express yourself

Anne Belcher

Acute confusion

Abby Morrow-Barnes

Assessment and management of patients with ankle injuries

Jennie Walker

Using personal narrative to deepen emotional awareness of practice

Sharon L Edwards

Service user and carer involvement in pre-registration student selection

Jo Rouse, Laura Kay Torney

Tweets of the week

Can you help with the search for the June 87 set at Wexham Park?

Siobhan Draper McEnnis

Remembering Herbert Sulzbach and those who work for peace

John Adams

Force-feeding is in the interests of the state, not its prisoners

Anja K Peters

Looking at people as individuals is vital to any work assessment

Cynthia Atwell

Unite calls on the NMC to reject the proposed 20% fee increase

Jane Beach

RCN faces challenges over rising inequalities within profession

Michael Owen

It is time to take industrial action to reverse the sell-off of the NHS

Karen Chilver

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

Margaret Paul

First Aid for Cyclists app

Steph Caldwell

Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses – 13th edition

Simon McGurk

Clinical Evidence Made Easy – The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine

Irene Mabbott

International Centre for Life

Natalie Shaw

Starting out - We should spend time with patients to understand their concerns

Leanne Mahoney

Readers panel - Highlight a hidden practice

Alison Crumbie, Craig Hopkins, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Beverley Brathwaite

The big issue

Zeba Arif

Stay positive

Paul Hodgkin

Such sang-froid

Jane Bates

Giving to receive?

Stephen Wright

Voices - We must develop district nursing for the future, writes Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Royal Naval nursing: ‘testing but worth it’

Alison Moore

Learn to see patients in their own world

Iain Atherton, Richard Kyle

Tired of carrying the burden of fatigue

Erin Dean

HIV

Study identifies hepatitis C virus genotype 1 as the most prevalent worldwide

Poorly maintained beds and bedrails put inpatients at risk of entrapment injury

Exceeding five portions of fruit and vegetables a day brings no extra benefit

A test to measure folate in pregnant women’s blood could prevent birth defects

Shift work linked to increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Hospitals told to ban junk food and offer staff incentives to lose weight

Kat Keogh

Political notebook

Niece visits library that honours nurse killed on WW1 front line

World in brief

Staffing shortfalls remain an issue at many trusts in special measures

Christian Duffin

Volunteer healthcare staff set off to Gaza

Staff seek funds in NHS version of Dragons’ Den

Grouping diabetes checks could confuse score and reward process

Alistair Kleebauer

Nurse admits to falsifying records

News in brief

Medication patch may help people with schizophrenia

Ebola death toll rises in Africa with at least 14 nurses among the dead

Christian Duffin

Pay rise ‘a political issue’ as review body ignored

Tell us if you are prepared to take action over pay

Nurses in the front line of cuts at HEE

100 years to the day: candlelit vigil at Westminster Abbey

Stafford Hospital witness to advise NHS Freedom to Speak Up review

Kat Keogh

Continuation of NHS Pay Review body benefits all

Graham Scott

News digest August 13 2014

News digest August 14 2014

NSPCC hired to help recruit nurses with the right values

Medication review project saves nursing time

News digest August 15 2014

Thousands of cancer patients dying needlessly, charity warns

More than a quarter of hospital wards in Wales do not have right skill mix

News digest August 18 2014

Health Education England announces safety board to tackle patient harm in the NHS

Sedentary lifestyles – much more than calorie intake – responsible for rise in UK obesity, says study

News digest August 19 2014

Three quarters of asthma patients unaware of fatal attack risk

Families found in shipping container at Port of Tilbury trigger hospital’s major incident plan