Student life - Focusing on the curriculum

Alison Chapman, Alex Ocampo

Lessons abroad and at home

Lauren Morris

Notice board

Doing good for nurse training

Bríd Hehir

The work-life balance

Nicola Davies

End of life care

Constance Nkechika

Gout: clinical presentation and management

Gail Burbage

Diabulimia: how eating disorders can affect adolescents with diabetes

Jennifer Davidson

Nursing student placements in clinical research

Gillian Ann Naylor, Anita Hanson, Jane Evely, Margaret Little, Diane VanEker

Pauline Drewitt1923–2014

Jane Clarke, Desmond Julian

Kate O’Hanlon1930–2014

John Adams

Tweets of the week

If £500,000 is the going rate for a good piece of public art, so be it

Helena Soni

Will nurses from the European Union be tested on their English?

Virginia Allum

We must heed those who caution against legalising assisted dying

Alison Twycross

To use the pay review body as a political tool is a disgrace

Sally Harding

I have had enough and am ready to take action over nurses’ pay

Bridget Ryan

Working to rule for a pay rise would be as effective as going on strike

Christine Clark

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

Margaret Paul

WebMD Allergy app

Nicola Evans

Nursing Tales – Personal Reminiscences of Sexual Health Nursing in the Twentieth Century

Helena Soni

How Your Doctor Sees You – A Guide to the Body in X Rays and Scans

Simon McGurk

Re:Cognition Health

Shelagh Daly

Starting out - Reassuring this frightened patient helped me overcome my own fears

Grace Farrell

Cruel question

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Permission to experiment

Mark Pittman, Grant Byrne, Linda Drake, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe

Too many cooks

David Newnham

Panic modes

Jane Bates

Goals we must meet

Christine Hancock, Katy Cooper

Voices - Health care on the cheap is dangerously unsafe, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

HRT is just right for some women

Mary-Claire Mason

Would you let your family stay here?

Erin Dean

All-in-one care plan for school children

Jennifer Trueland

Hepatitis B

Neonatal and childhood illness programme encourages mothers to seek treatment

Automated reminders prove to be highly effective in the battle to quit smoking

Humour could help men undergoing penile cancer treatment to stay positive

No increase in spontaneous abortion risk in women with epilepsy who take medication

Menopause onset after Hodgkin’s lymphoma treatment analysed

Majority of nurses say they would consider leaving the profession

Kat Keogh

LGBT services feeling strain of austerity

‘Merger of health and social care would benefit patients and staff’

World in brief

Setting the record straight

‘Car parking in hospitals should not be allocated to senior managers’

Katie Osborne

News in brief

Under-fire hospitals set out standards

Electronic system in trial to detect risk of kidney injury

School nurses prepare for childhood flu vaccine pilot

NHS is failing to make progress on prevention of sepsis deaths

Kat Keogh

Uncertainty surrounds NMC role if Scotland says yes

TUC warns Tory proposal on strikes is anti democratic and irrational

Apply now for older people’s care fellowship

Coaching would benefit careers

Anger at letter asking for extended healthcare services at no extra cost

Katie Osborne

Poll reveals public will support industrial action by midwives

Kat Keogh

Staff endure icy dunking to raise motor neurone disease funds

Nurse votes are key to referendum outcome

Graham Scott

Professional coalition calls for end to silence on future of health service

Katie Osborne

Nurse who accepted £1,300 from a patient has been allowed to continue to practise

Kat Keogh

News digest September 15 2014

Government criticised over sepsis care

Kat Keogh

News digest September 10 2014

News digest September 16 2014

Scottish nurses in backdated pay claim

Katie Osborne

NMC in ‘much stronger position’, review finds

News digest September 11 2014

Queen’s Nursing Institute to recognise the work of community nurses in supporting carers

Surrey council apologises for leaving pensioner alone for nine days without food, medication or water

News digest September 12 2014