Student life - Fly on the wall approach

Sarah White, Phoebe Coghlan

Managing emotions at work

Nicola Davies

Noticeboard

Opportunity to make a difference

Graham Scott

Beyond the expected

Cathy Comerford

Agitation

Rachel Booth

Using systematic reviews to inform nursing practice

Maxine Pryce-Miller

Comparison of family planning in Cuba and Ireland

Suzie Smyth, Shirley Stronge

Recognition and management of febrile convulsion in children

Siba Prosad Paul, Emily Natasha Kirkham, Bethany Shirt

Win: Pain Is Really Strange

Tweets of the week

Scheme aims to ensure students become competent practitioners

Kirsty Walsh

Nurses need proper breaks to change unhealthy eating habits

Bev Syson

The battle against dementia is about more than finding a cure

June Andrews

Public health blow is just an NHS funding cut under another name

Rod Thomson

It is unclear how the NHS defines ‘fluent’ – or how it will find staff

Terry Gammell

Communication with patients is vital if we are to help them

Nadine Falconer

Nurses and their patients must be talking the same language

Nadine Brown

If reflection is an NMC requirement, we should give staff the time to do it

Donato Tallo

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

Margaret Paul

RxmindMe Prescription/Medicine Reminder and Pill Tracker

Grant Byrne

Times To Weep, Times To Laugh

Valerie McGurk

Treating Substance Abuse (Third Edition)

David Solomon

Downs Side Up

Colin Parish

Starting out - Nurses can learn so much and grow in confidence on an elective abroad

Laura Sparrow

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - An end to lighting up outside

Craig Hopkins, Jane Brown, Jane Scullion, Linda Drake

Queasy commute

David Newnham

Wait for it…

Jane Bates

The caring act

Karen Sanders

Voices - Revalidation might be easier than you think, suggests Janet Finch

Janet Finch

Consultant role bridges the gap

Mary-Claire Mason

Challenging people’s ideas

Elaine Cole

Trust trials new model of testing competency

Alison Moore

Female genital mutilation

Practice nurses reluctant to broach sensitive issue of weight loss with patients

Divorced men who remarry more likely to be depressed than those who remain single

Balance retraining exercise programmes help to reduce falls in at-risk older women

Mortality rate for children under five in the UK almost double that in Sweden

Students lack the confidence to deal with domestic abuse

Directors head for the exit as lack of support and pressures rack up

Patients know nurses are less likely to prescribe antibiotics, study finds

Christian Duffin, Mary Griffin

E-learning modules will help cut classroom-based training

Older rural population needs a flexible nursing workforce

Staff gain support on e-cigarette use

News in brief

Nurses too busy to monitor diabetes patients closely

Senior lecturer set to confer first paediatric diplomas on trip to Zambia

Immigration rules could hit hard

Safety of patients to be scrutinised by commons group

Anger over lack of parking at Glasgow’s super hospital

Give UK nursing bigger global voice by rejoining ICN, college is urged

Chris Longhurst

Artist chosen for Cavell memorial

High turnover of nursing directors is damaging to trusts’ performance

Sally Gillen

Our talent at the top is still going to waste

Graham Scott