Student life - A unique opportunity

Tamsin Newton Snow

Course resource

Gearing up for more older nurses

Petra Kendall Raynor

Noticeboard

Awareness campaign

Angela Ditchfield

End of life care

Robin Hooks

Managing lifestyle factors in adults with osteoarthritis

Sarah Ryan

A quality improvement programme to reduce pressure ulcers

Nicola Heywood, Lisa Brown, Michaela Arrowsmith, Alexa Poppleston

Recording pressure ulcer risk assessment and incidence

Anne Plaskitt, Nicola Heywood, Michaela Arrowsmith

Promoting and evaluating scientific rigour in qualitative research

Lesley Baillie

Win: Crying in the Linen Cupboard

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page…

Bryoni Alice, Chris Tapping, Deidre Mulvenna-Pegrum, Marc Evans

CPD articles keep my inquisitive mind engaged for many an hour

Julie Speer

A little bit of kindness can go a long way in the workplace

Donato Tallo

Red armbands for senior nurses goes against team-working ethic

Daniel Athey

NHS England’s confusion over mental health makes us fearful

John Baker, Steven Pryjmachuk

Suspending NICE’s work on safe staffing is totally scandalous

Susan Osborne

Why are we closing the door in the face of future nursing talent?

Grant Byrne

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

Margaret Paul

365 Positivity

Grant Byrne

The Nurse’s War

Emma Vincent

Developing Person-Centred Practice. A Practical Approach to Quality Healthcare

Valerie McGurk

Health for Teens

Craig Hopkins

Starting out - Sharing common interests helped to lift a cancer patient’s spirits

Olivia Lewis

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - The price of nurses’ safety

Sarah-Louise Flowers, Jane Scullion, Drew Payne, Edwin Chamanga

A meal to die for

David Newnham

Seeing scents

Jane Bates

When art mimics life

Geraldine Rodgers, Susan Smyth

Voices - Nurses’ immense worth should not be underrated, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Sickle cell comes out of the shadows

Jennifer Trueland

Feedback is catalyst for high-quality care

Jennifer Trueland

A do-it-yourself drive to spread the D word

Elaine Cole

Prostate cancer

Living donor is less likely for liver transplant patients who are divorced or on low income

Elder abuse common around the world, especially in those with cognitive impairment

Bone fracture rate higher in women who use SSRIs to ease menopause symptoms

Spanish nursing students know less about smoking risk than they did a decade ago

Barriers to an early abortion remain in developed countries

Desperate times for nursing staff as Greek economic crisis deepens

Jennifer Sprinks

One in ten bereaved people rate end of life care as poor, poll finds

Alistair Kleebauer

7/7 survivor pays tribute to staff

News in brief

Number of patients with pressure ulcers decreases

New guidance on FGM care published

Florence’s desk lamp shines bright at sale

Mathematical modelling offers hard evidence of nurses’ value

Jennifer Sprinks

‘Migration policy could pose risk to NHS pay’

NICE to address safe emergency nurse staffing

Return-to-practice campaign will turn its attention to boosting retention

Comment - ‘This shows how little the government values nurses’

Josie Irwin

Chancellor provokes nurses’ anger over budget edict on pay restraint

Alistair Kleebauer

Unfair budget inflicts more pain on nurses

Graham Scott