Student life - The heart of learning

Anne Felton, Damion McCormick, Jo Rutt

Get it right from the start

Hayley Vernon

Noticeboard

Making the most of complaints

Kathy Oxtoby

Work in progress

Sue Ticquet

Medication errors

Patricia Lesley Howarth

Improving nutrition in older people in acute care

Carolyn Best, Helen Hitchings

Rigour in quantitative research

Leica Sarah Claydon

Diagnosis and support for younger people with dementia

Hilda Hayo

Win: Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare

Helen Coupland 1920-2015

Terry Coupland

Elizabeth (Betty) Raybould OBE 1926-2015

Dame Betty Kershaw

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page

Natalie Jocelyn Ions, Donna Woodruff, Kathryn Hoover Brock, Wendy Verity

Oh for a culture where mistakes are not treated as criminal

Michael Owen

Tuition fees will create risk and imperil seven-day care

Kevin Davies

Consider the effect on patients of all those equipment alarms

Mike McHale

Academic bodies have no business meddling in fees

Tom Bolger

End of life care can be complex, but it is essential we get it right

Liz Charalambous

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

Margaret Paul

First aid by the British Red Cross

Grant Byrne

Sickle Cell Society

John Adams

Medicine Management for Nurses Case Book

Sue Shaw

Lyme Disease: Why It’s Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What To Do About It

Sandra Pearson

Starting out - I learned that the patient should be central to therapeutic intervention

Nicholas Holland

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - The high price of graduation

Beverley Ramdeen, Joe Somerville, Drew Payne, Linda Drake

It’s just not cricket

David Newnham

In plain sight

Jane Bates

We need an uprising

Zeba Arif

Voices - Janet Finch says the regulator has progressed, but it can still do more

Janet Finch

The long road to recovery

Daloni Carlisle

RCNi.com – have you joined us yet?

Amanda Carter

Conscious of deterioration

Elaine Cole

Suspected cancer

Early induction reduces the risk of injury during labour to babies that are large for date

Education programme helps prevent falls and related injuries in hospital trial

Most sling operations for stress urinary incontinence cure symptoms after one year

Soy isoflavone supplements of no benefit in patients with poorly controlled asthma

More harm than good in lower urinary tract drugs for older people

Nursing staff fighting to balance the cost of living

Study questions effectiveness of mortality indicators

NICE to cast independent eye over chief nurse’s safe staffing guidance

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

The benefits of pre-degree work experience analysed

Flexibility is key to nurse retention

‘Revalidation flaws could put registrations at risk’

Report on neglect sparks FtP hearings

Academy calls for safe staffing in all professions

Nurse’s Ebola work wins praise of PM

Mealtime support and standards of dignity patchy, but improving

Alistair Kleebauer

Hospitals’ avoidable death figures to be published in a world first

Seven-day working will hit nurses in the pocket, says NHS pay body

Alistair Kleebauer

Want weekend working Mr Hunt? Then pay for it

Janet Snell