Student life - Preparing for reality

Alison Handley

On the move

Notice board

Improving the lives of many

Vikki Park

Too busy to be sick?

Cathy Comerford

Preceptorship

Brenda Chivima

Palliative care for patients with non-malignant respiratory disease

Clare McVeigh

Engaging patients in pressure ulcer prevention

Lynne Hudgell, Julie Dalphinis, Chris Blunt, Maryam Zonouzi, Susan Procter

Documentation and record-keeping in pressure ulcer management

Edwin Chamanga, Renee Ward

Ethnography: principles, practice and potential

Jan Draper

Win: The Nightingale Watch

Tweets of the week

I feel unsure about how to fulfil the requirements of revalidation

Gary Siddle

Input of clinicians is vital in the shift to digital health care

Debbie Guy

Guidance helps open discussion of neonate organ donation

Rhiannon Jones

RCN would only decide on a ballot once all the facts were available

Josie Irwin

England-centric standpoint fails to give readers key information

Geoff Earl

Never mind ‘efficiencies’ – the NHS needs £30 billion just to stand still

Karen Chilver

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

Diabetes Journal

Scott Justice

Avoiding Errors in Adult Medicine

Marc Cornock

Clinical Governance: Improving the Quality of Healthcare for Patients and Service Users

John Adams

Dementia Festival of Ideas

Lesley Crabtree

Starting out - With just £10 and an innovative idea I brought art therapy to patients

Mark Collins

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - There’s no smoke without fire

Jane Scullion, Craig Hopkins, Bríd Hehir, Pamela Shaw

Thrills and spills

David Newnham

Giving thanks

Jane Bates

Listen and learn

Liz Charalambous

Voices - The next government must improve regulation as a priority, says Janet Finch

Dame Janet Finch

Pre-load syringes safely

Jennifer Trueland

‘You’re a nurse in 100 million’

Elaine Cole

Breaking the cycle of violence

Harmful alcohol use

E-cigarettes currently unlikely to contribute to nicotine addiction among teenagers

Cost-effective technology may prove to be a breakthrough in early stomach cancer diagnosis

Significant link between vitamin D deficiency and airflow limitation in COPD

Long life expectancy with osteoporosis makes managing the condition all the more vital

Children with diabetes are at much higher risk of hospital admission

Professionals who have enhanced patients’ lives

Sheer dedication makes Sarah the patients’ choice

Spotlight on the nation’s finest nurses

Alistair Kleebaur

Childhood bullying has greatest impact on mental ill-health

Rapid access to nurse-led detox units could save the NHS millions

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Important point of contact for tackling obesity being missed

NHS is failing the nation’s children

Staff rally against pay proposal

‘Work together towards integration and get heard,’ Scottish nurses told

Jennifer Trueland

Nurse sues NHS after trust admits ‘terrible error’

Stonewall ranks St Andrew’s top of equality index

Nepalese nurse association appeals for donations to support earthquake fund

RCN urges new government to take action on low staff morale

Alistair Kleebauer

Amanda named Nurse of the Year for tackling domestic violence

She’s a wonderful nurse and our worthy winner

Graham Scott