Student life - Inspirational experience

Sarah Combes

Notice board

Self-funders on alternative path to practice

Alison Handley

On the move

Quality and equality

Christian Duffin

End of life care

Rose Gallacher

Managing malnutrition in patients with dementia

Liz Evans, Carolyn Best

Planning a research project

Leslie Gelling, Hilary Engward

Improving sleep for patients in acute hospitals

Christine Norton, David Flood, Andy Brittin, Jane Miles

Win: Marsden Manual

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page...

Ingvar Árni Ingvarsson

Safe staffing could make a big difference to care and morale

Kevin Davies

Our derisory pay offer in no way makes up for years of restraint

Zeba Arif

Being open about my gender dysphoria led to serious abuse

We urge early engagement with the fitness to practise process

Sarah Page, Cathy Warwick, Alan Hughes, Janet Davies, Jane Beach

No clean bill of health for nurses who wash their uniforms at home

Sallie Samuel

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

Margaret Paul

My Incredible Body – Guide to Learn About the Human Body for Children app

Bridget Ryan

The Nurse’s Reality Shift – Using History to Transform the Future

Dame Betty Kershaw

Princesses on the Wards – Royal Women in Nursing through Wars and Revolutions

John Adams

The Robes Project

Roger Evans

Starting out - Helping to manage a patient’s care underlined the skills I had learned

Catherine Baxter

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - No treatment, no benefits

Jane Brown, Scott Justice, Linda Drake, Craig Hopkins

False positives

David Newnham

Perks of the job

Jane Bates

Professional benefit

Dame Eileen Sills

Voices - Listen to NHS staff concerns before it is too late, writes Peter Carter

Peter Carter

With nowhere to go

Jennifer Trueland

Urgent response to cancer

Jennifer Trueland

A coping strategy

Lynne Pearce

Simple truths about dementia

June Andrews

Urinary incontinence

Daytime napping affects night sleep quality in children older than two

Poor regulation means surrogate mothers in India are ill-informed about the process

Extent of family influence on decision making can play a major role in care choices

Feeling ‘ready to burst’ with anger could multiply risk of heart attack by eight times

Shorter hospital stays may affect hip fracture patients adversely

‘Large chunk of expertise’ missing from cancer services task force

Study finds ideal ward has a mix of single rooms and multi-bed bays

Erin Dean

Trust to roll out monitors that read obs in 3.5 minutes

News in brief

Simple measures improve inpatient sleep quality

New role at QNI for district nurse

Ebola nurse free to return to work

Minimum staffing ratios failed to gain Welsh Government support

Erin Dean

Pay deal acceptance signals end of long dispute

NMC urges staff to engage early with the FtP process

Maternity care review’s aims are set out in wake of furness report

Nurse award winner called to the palace

Healthcare support workers given strategy for career development

Katie Osborne

Vulnerable patients deserve regulated care

Graham Scott