Our judges

Patient’s choice award

RCN health practitioner member award

Public health nursing award

Mental health award

Innovations in your specialty award

Innovations in respiratory award

Infection prevention award

Excellence in diabetes specialist nursing award

Enhancing the experience of care award

Defence nursing award

Community nursing award

Child health award

Cancer nursing award

Bank nurse award

Andrew Parker student nurse award in association with the RCN Fellows

Welcome

Student life - Aiming even higher

Pamela Shaw

Future-proofing services

Sharon Levy

Notice board

Finding logical interventions

Beth Watson

Your chance to shine

Christine Facer

Writing an article

Helen Ballantyne

Understanding non-compliance with hand hygiene practices

Heather Gluyas

Grounded theory

Tina Harris

Win: Research Skills for Nurses and Midwives

Tweets of the week

Would you like to contribute to my study of bullying in the NHS?

Ian Durrant

I don’t know how maternity leave affects my revalidation

Jocelyn Fernandes

Now is a good time to find out what you need to do to revalidate

Jackie Smith

The assumption that researchers are substandard seems unlikely

Jennifer Hunt

UK nurse educators would do well to follow Canada’s lead

James Smith

EU agreement would limit scope for reversing NHS privatisation

Jan Savage

By bringing the van to the man, we can offer essential cancer support

Heather Blake, Sarah Coghlan, Rachel Iredale

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

Margaret Paul

Fallcheck

Nicky Hayes

Fatal Destiny: Edith Cavell, World War I Nurse (second edition)

Emma Vincent

Pride and Joy

Garry McGurk

Bladder and Bowel Foundation

John Adams

Starting out - Norwegian placement helped me to broaden my experience and training

Nicola Fisher

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - U-turn would come at a price

Jane Scullion, Drew Payne, Linda Drake, Scott Justice

Breathe easy

David Newnham

What a letdown

Jane Bates

A spiritual shortfall?

Wilfred McSherry, Linda Ross

Voices - We can all show leadership by following nursing’s 6Cs, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

Nutritional therapy when it is needed

Mary-Claire Mason

Helping new leaders take their first steps

Lynne Pearce

Encouraging physical activity

Educating children at school about abuse helps them develop protective behaviours

E-cigarette fluids may expose users to harmful levels of benzaldehyde and vanillin

Oxygen deprivation from sleep apnoea accelerates mild cognitive impairment

HPV vaccine might be a cost-effective barrier to oropharyngeal cancer in males

Withdrawal of dying patients’ treatment linked to compassion

Calls for ‘living bursary’ as students visit food banks or drop out

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

Supporting youngest organ donor was ‘a privilege’

New guidance on post-death care

Age UK’s integrated care pilot to be rolled out across England

Cathy Comerford

Call for ‘gay specific’ end of life care

Shedding new light on nurses’ role

Rethink care home career pathways to boost recruitment, says professor

Jennifer Sprinks

Labour pledges to boost nursing numbers immediately

Key figures meet to discuss shape of caring review

Lib Dem candidate calls on rival parties to remove politics from running of NHS

Nurse Helen is back in the driving seat after successful campaign

Scrap unsocial hours payments and nurses will retaliate, warns RCN

Katie Osborne

Unsocial hours pay is a question of fairness

Graham Scott