Student life - Every student can help prevent pressure ulcers

Leah Milne

On the move

Noticeboard

What is your personality type?

Christine Facer

Less continence stress

Carol Davis

Healthcare surveillance

Helen Degnan

Psychological needs of people living with cancer

Colette Anne Selmer

Milk allergy in adults and children

Katy Mara Odedra

Use of diaries in research

Michael Snowden

Win: FunkyFobz Watch

Tweets of the week

The Queen’s nurse conference is being held at the RCGP in London

Matthew Bradby

Anyone out there from Union College Hospital set 277 of 1985?

Jacqui Graves (nee Heames)

The use of cameras is the wrong way to expose poor practice

Donato Tallo

My working hours prove that district nurses do work at night

Denise Williams

A memorable occasion for Muslim nurses because of RCN’s efforts

Zeba Arif

Staff who fail NMC revalidation need to know what to do next

Siobhan Taylor

Shiver me timbers, this congress was worth the trip and no mistake

Caryn McWhirter

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

Margaret Paul

SIGN app

Janet Snell

It’s Never Easy These Days: the Candid and Often Comical Memoir of a Hospital Manager

John Adams

Pain Management in Nursing Practice

Karin Cannons

Bethlem Museum of the Mind

John Adams

Starting out - Baby’s death was challenging but affirmed my decision to be a nurse

Isobel Hogston

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Family planning at school

Elsie Gayle’, Alison Crumbie, Craig Hopkins, Pamela Shaw

Each to his own

David Newnham

Recognition

Jane Bates

What is the fee for?

Jackie Smith

Voices - The QNI will shape safe staffing in the community, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Vital signs of the times

Jackie Cosh

What about nursing’s ‘fourth dimension’?

Jennifer Sprinks

Work together to prevent infection

Elaine Cole

Pressure ulcers

Sleep disorders may double the risk of heart attacks and quadruple the risk of stroke

Declining autopsy rates in UK hospitals may damage patient safety and healthcare quality

Preoperative analgesia makes little difference to levels of post-surgery pain

Overuse of zinc supplements can lead to neurological problems and anaemia

Eating nuts reduces the risk of death from a range of diseases

College guidance strives to fill vacuum in end of life care protocol

Alistair Kleebauer

ICN president hopes to lure RCN back

Community nurses given little or no protection from abusive patients

Christian Duffin, Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

NMC will take action over dishonesty, barrister warns

New guidance on end of life care

Mentors key to unlocking equality

Hands off our unsocial hours pay, college congress tells government

Jennifer Sprinks

Regulators’ regulator urges caution on revalidation

RCN fellowships for exceptional professionals

Supervisor status boosts ward sisters’ effectiveness and authority of role

‘Open culture is needed to allow staff to learn from their mistakes’

College deplores decision to end NICE work on safe nurse staffing

Alistair Kleebauer, Jennifer Sprinks

Freed up to be truly effective ward leaders

Graham Scott