Student life - Making politics matter

Siobhan McCullough

Adopting professional values

Jane Redfern Jones

Notice board

The uncounted workforce

Stephanie Jones Berry

A year of growth

Anne Cooper

End of life care

Rebekah Richardson

Psychological effects of living with rheumatoid arthritis

Sarah Ryan

Developing healthcare support workers

Jacqueline Brown, Julia McMurray

Supplying emergency contraception to adolescents: the nurse’s role

Craig Hopkins

Josie Ross1956-2014Award-winning diabetes specialist nurse whose passion was the care of people with the condition

John Adams

Anne Borsay1954-2014Swansea professor who made major contributions to the study of nursing history, disability and the humanities

John Adams

Tweets of the week

I would like the royalties for the ‘use us or lose us’ T-shirts

Dougie Lockhart

Support for numeracy skills throughout nurse training

Warren Turner

Greater investment is needed in teaching the basics of numeracy

Naomi Lyth

Too many people with dementia are denied the care they need

Martin McShane

Wales leads the way in mental health support for veterans

Kevin Davies

Apologies should not be seen as an admission of guilt or wrong-doing

Sally Harding

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

Margaret Paul

Healthy Score app

Helena Soni

Three Little Birds – Two Women, Two Bucket Lists, Twice the Hilarity

Valerie McGurk

Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity and Health – Second edition

Margaret Arthur

Ebola Virus Disease: Clinical Management and Guidance

Roger Evans

Starting out - Experience boosted my confidence in coping with challenging patients

Kimberley Oscroft

Less blame and less shame means less HIV

Jason Warriner

Readers panel - An incentive to spot dementia

Jane Brown, Edwin Chamanga, Alison Crumbie, Daniel Athey

Bird brained

David Newnham

Super-ego trip

Jane Bates

Emotionally qualified

Yvonne Sawbridge, Catherine Needham

Voices - Some wards create the illusion of safe staffing, warns Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Rewards keep rolling in for these winners

Lynne Pearce

Getting the nurse numbers right

Erin Dean

Something to talk about

Jennifer Trueland

CPR

Cervical pre-cancer treatment may increase risk of miscarriage significantly

Second-hand smoke in the home exceeds air safety limits for non-smokers

Routine smoking cessation support for hospital inpatients could reduce mortality

Acid reflux linked to UK having highest rate of new adenocarcinoma cases

Biomarker tests lower antibiotic use for respiratory infections

Winter pressures cash injection ‘a sticking plaster solution’

Alistair Kleebauer

Older people’s champion wins RCN award

Lack of support and resources to blame for abuse of district nurses

Katie Osborne

World in brief

Political notebook

Mental health nurse numbers cut as demand for services rises

Home antibiotics team is helping patients to stay out of hospital

Erin Dean

More Sierra Leone volunteers fly out

Workplaces should provide nurses with healthier options

News in brief

Uniform badge will detect dirty hands

NMC opens centre for overseas testing

Complaints to NMC about nurses increase by 14 per cent in a year

Katie Osborne

Great Ormond Street pay error will cost staff time

Scotland aims to improve care of dying patients

Mother in ‘home alone’ case should be free to pursue nursing career, says MP

‘Amazing’ public support for second wave of NHS strikes over fair pay

Kat Keogh, Katie Osborne

This myopic approach to mental health must stop

Graham Scott

News digest November 26 2014

News digest November 27 2014

More children’s specialist epilepsy nurses needed

Existing model of pre-registration nurse training in the UK does not prepare students for varied role

Katie Osborne

News digest November 28 2014

Come Back to Nursing campaign attracts 800 former registrants in three months

NICE guidance states that weight loss surgery could help curb type 2 diabetes ‘epidemic’ and save money

Kat Keogh

News digest December 01 2014

Detention in police cell of mentally ill teenager is ‘appalling’ says RCN’s Peter Carter

George Osborne pledges £2 billion in extra NHS funding

Katie Osborne

News digest December 02 2014

Chief medical officer urges staff to have flu jab

Fewer than one third of hospitals have the required ratio of nurses to stroke patients at weekends

Alistair Kleebauer