Student life - Getting reflection right

Fiona Timmins, Mark Monahan

Second job, big responsibility

Carol Shillabeer

Notice board

Potential beneath the surface

Carol Davis

Out and on the way up

Helen Lushpenko-Brown

Fever in children

Dominique Stanway

Nursing care of patients with a temporary tracheostomy

Rebecca Myatt

Reducing avoidable pressure ulcers in the community

Alison Parnham, Sarah Pankhurst, Wendy Dabell

Preventing pressure ulcers in patients in intensive care

William Gage

Response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone

Beauty Chiedza Davies, Douglas Bowley, Katrina Roper

Win: Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

Tweets of the week

Use a hoist to lift patients and rise from the hips – not knees

Stephen Wanless

Care home residents need to be protected from eviction

Ken Mack Wrexham

A ‘named nurse’ is important, but teamwork is essential

Donato Tallo

More resources are needed to address poor end of life care

Jane Robinson

Stark contrast between the pay offer for nurses and 10% for MPs

Veronica Burton

Some residents refuse to drink despite all efforts to tempt them

Angela Fenton

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

Margaret Paul

Any.do app

Helena Soni

Achieving Competencies for Nursing Practice – A Handbook for Student Nurses

Judith Benbow, Gayle James

Theories Guiding Nursing Research and Practice – Making Nursing Knowledge Development Explicit

John Adams

RCN: Vote – Nursing Counts, General Election 2015

Christian Duffin

Taking control of anorexia together

Elaine Cole

At the heart of care

Jane Cummings

Readers panel - Playing the name game with patients

Alison Crumbie, Parveen Ali, Grant Byrne, Susan Grave

Feedback is an opportunity, not a threat

Eleanor Walsh

Crossing the divide

Mark Axcell

Starting out - A patient with Parkinson’s taught me the importance of listening

Clare Troy

Implementing change

Jocelyn Cornwell

Voices - Gathering feedback in the community can be challenging, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Customer care

Jane Bates

Turning feedback into action

Matthew Cooke

When the patient takes the lead

Alison Moore

‘Care is improved when we listen to patients’

Janet Snell

Tobacco

Check for tell-tale signs of impending death at bedside of people with cancer

Higher risk of cardiovascular disease found in women who have given birth preterm

Socioeconomic deprivation may inhibit diagnoses of coeliac disease in children

Hepatitis B virus could be reactivated by chemotherapy or other treatments

Benefits of moderate drinking challenged by analysis of age groups

Student ‘role play’ masks prompt mental health stigma complaint

Nurses overlooked in new cancer task force to improve survival rates

Erin Dean

News in brief

NHS England issues safety alert after patient deaths

New code in the post next month

Staff just keep calm and carry on

Staff face conflicting pressures as they deal with discharge delays

Julia Gregory

Wearable CCTV kit initiative aims to quell A&E violence

Family wins support of RCN in call for better community mental health care

Ebola nurse Cafferkey subject of NMC investigation

‘Caring’ nurse goes on trial for murder

Visiting hours extended on wards at more than half of NHS trusts

Alistair Kleebauer

Transforming care is everyone’s business

Paul Jebb

News digest February 25 2015

News digest February 26 2015

RCN accuses migration authority of misrepresentation

Katie Osborne

News digest February 27 2015

Nurses knew Savile was a ‘sex pest’ says official report into his activities in the NHS

Alistair Kleebauer