Student life - ‘The best nurse I can be’

Asha James, Allison Brogan

Course resource

New approach to intervention

Catharine Sadler

Notice board

The patient champion

Paul Jebb

Breaking bad news

Charlotte Dale

Writing up research for publication

Bob Price

Improving oral hygiene for patients

Debbie Bonetti, Victoria Hampson, Kerry Queen, Donna Kirk, Jan Clarkson, Linda Young

Preventing central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection

Charlotte Wilson

Tweets of the week

‘Florence’ is being developed as a digital healthcare assistant

Ivan Camphor

The role of chaplaincy services in today’s multicultural NHS

Donato Tallo

How is the RCN going to support members in claiming overtime?

Malcolm Harrison

European nurses lose out in terms of registration and skills

Cher Goodyer

Please continue to support our work in Africa to combat HIV/AIDS

Ilana Landsberg-Lewis

Ebola shines a spotlight on the vital role of front line healthcare workers

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

Nurse Diary app

Steph Caldwell

LeMone & Burke’s Adult Nursing – Acute and Ongoing Care

Judith Benbow, Katherine Snell

Person and Family Centered Care

Valerie McGurk

The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project

John Adams

A tale of four cities

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - I adopted person-centred care by supporting a patient with autism

Nikki Hibberd

Believe that change is within your power

Lynne Healy

Readers panel - Calling time on the training model

Kate Tantam, Grant Byrne, Alison Crumbie, Beverley Brathwaite

Spot checks

David Newnham

Trigger happy

Jane Bates

Disservice to children

Dean-David Holyoake

Voices - This year will be one of fresh opportunities for community nurses, predicts Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Support after transplant

Lynne Pearce

By reaching out we can change worlds

Iain Atherton, Richard Kyle

The right stuff?

Erin Dean

Bronchiolitis

‘Sensitive’ approach to sexual health care needed for women who misuse drugs

Drug treatment reduces the likelihood of breast cancer in women at high risk

Supplementation with the fatty acid propionate may help suppress the appetite

Widespread air pollution has enormous public health implications, experts argue

Accumulation of fat on the abdomen may trigger cardiac death

Ready to back justice with action

Patients campaign to save burger outlet

Katie Osborne

World in brief

Nurses recognised in Queen’s New Year Honours

NHS faces staff exodus if unsocial hours payments are withdrawn

Alistair Kleebauer

Health unions step up pay action with strikes and work to rule

News in brief

Health advice from obese nurses is often ‘ignored’

Shift working is bad for you, study finds

RCN warns against overuse of language as a measure of FtP

Nurse volunteer who contracted Ebola is praised for her bravery

Katie Osborne

Peer reviews show importance of research funding

Campaign against fuel poverty gains support from RCN

Trust staff vow to claim pay or time in lieu for every hour’s overtime worked

School nursing given a boost as 142 new training places announced

Increase in nurse training places is only a ‘catch up’ as demand soars

Katie Osborne

Protection of healthcare staff has to be a priority

Graham Scott

News digest January 07 2015

News digest January 08 2015

Exhausted A&E staff should be given extra holiday, says emergency nurse leader

Katie Osborne

RCN president Cecilia Anim promises to fight for better pay

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest January 09 2015

Hospital calls a halt to pizza deliveries in a bid to discourage staff and patients from eating unhealthily

Katie Osborne

Scottish Government invests £700,000 in motor neurone specialist nursing

Tony Green

News digest January 12 2015

Uncertainty for Hinchingbrooke Hospital nurses as private operator Circle pulls out of NHS contract

Katie Osborne

Government launches fresh attack on nurse pay

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest January 13 2015

More than 1,000 healthcare workers complete first Mary Seacole leadership course

Alistair Kleebauer

100,000 sign petition on unsocial hours pay

Alistair Kleebauer