Student life - Getting to grips with the bigger NHS picture

Sam Wallace

Notice board

Happy to go the extra mile

Alison Handley

Everyone’s business

Anna-Marie Edwards

Cardiovascular disease

Balvinder Thiara

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease part 1: smoking cessation

Donna Jones

Systematic reviews

Elizabeth Halcomb, Ritin Fernandez

Medicines management

Anne Pegram, Jacqueline Bloomfield

Win: Medisave Nursing Packs

Tweets of the week

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

Cathy Rumball, Teresa Clohessy, Verity Rule, Nuala Jackson

Compare like with like when analysing staffing levels

June Clark

What format should feedback for revalidation be taking?

Patti Buada

Give maternity services robust racial equality protections

Elsie Gayle

Training is needed but not at the cost of staff competition

Anne Marie Rafferty

Why every vote must count if the government is to listen to nurses

David Harding-Price

MySugr

Drew Payne

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

Margaret Paul

Patient & Person: Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

John Adams

More than Hot – A Short History of Fever

Garry McGurk

Dementia Services Development Centre

Robin Ion

Starting out - Community placement highlighted the importance of help and support

Chrystal Biggs

Readers panel - Ratings at your fingertips

Liz Charalambous, Alison Crumbie, Edwin Chamanga, Scott Justice

Questions still remain

Matt Griffiths

Cereal killer

David Newnham

Shop talk

Jane Bates

Make your vote count

Zeba Arif

Voices - The new race equality standard will be beneficial to all, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Best of both worlds at a hospital hospice

Daloni Carlisle

Raising the standard of brain cancer care

Mary-Claire Mason

Delegation – a question of safety

Erin Dean

Medicines in care homes

Mortality rate linked to heart surgery for children in the UK has fallen significantly

Bleach cleaning products in the home may increase children’s risk of infections

Live donor liver transplants result in good outcomes for critically unwell patients

Review doubts effectiveness of taking paracetamol for lower back pain and arthritis

Simple questionnaire detects depression in older hospital patients

NHS on the right road to achieving post-Francis change in its culture

Jobs fair travels to Glasgow

Patients ‘confused’ by dual charity and district nurse palliative care

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

Pre-loading insulin syringe guidance updated by RCN

A safety alert for device connectors

‘Trixie’ takes a trip to birthing unit

Failed applications to nursing soar while staff face burnout, says RCN

Jennifer Sprinks

College vows to fight employers over pay refunds

Culture tool helps spot barriers to giving good care

Employers should offer mixed rotas, says unison, amid 12-hour shifts row

Nightingale’s table lamp set for auction

‘Spot test’ survey reveals persistent concerns about low staffing levels

Jennifer Sprinks

We have more front line nurses, but at what cost?

Graham Scott