Student life - Make the most of your time on placement

Helen Green

Make the media work for you

Lynne Pearce

Noticeboard

Spotlight on winning causes

Lynne Pearce

Failure is an option

Nicola Davies

Fatigue in MS patients

Craig Hopkins

Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection

Dinah Gould

Opportunities for suicide prevention in the general medical setting

Gabriella Landy, Mukesh Kripalani

Understanding and managing the health needs of veterans

Danielle Fullwood

How to check the arterial pulse

Christopher Nicholson

Rosemary Maguire 1939-2015

Princess Campbell 1939-2015

John Adams

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Gareth Phillips, Sara Elizabeth Brown, Annie Horn, Michelle Parker, Derek Amson

Notes and queries column could help provide the answers

Jenny Janes

E-Portfolio makes document storage straightforward

Dawn Clarke

People living with post-polio syndrome must not be forgotten

Ted Hill

Practice nurses should take the initiative to attract recruits

Marie Therese Massey

Nurses are duty-bound to keep our first aid skills up to scratch

Donato Tallo

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

Margaret Paul

Vitamin Deficiency Finder

Layla Haidrani

Why Perinatal Depression Matters

Barbara Monk-Steel

A Short Introduction to Helping Young People Manage Anxiety

Mandy Day-Calder

Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare

Layla Haidrani

Starting out - Mobile check proved importance of oral hygiene for patients and staff

Hannah Rich

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Part of the operating team

Jane Scullion, Beverley Ramdeen, Daniel Athey, Drew Payne

A pot of gold

David Newnham

Fault lines

Jane Bates

Too much pressure

Josie Irwin

Voices - Black History Month is a call for year-round action, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Win: How Drugs Work

Revalidation support for agency workers

Alison Moore

Seven-day services open new doors

Alison Moore

Liver disease

Antipsychotic medication use found to go up at time of Alzheimer’s diagnosis

Ageing of brain could be delayed by adhering to Mediterranean diet

Sterilisation by implants associated with high risk of further operations

Drug developed for women is found to be effective in men with prostate cancer

Personalise education plan to improve quality of life in liver patients

Primary care and the workforce time bomb that must be defused

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Trusts fall short on sepsis training despite toll of avoidable deaths

Alistair Kleebauer

Real scenarios help patients picture their care

News in brief

College warns of midwifery ‘retirement time bomb’

England ready for revalidation

A chance to meet Miss Nightingale

Partnerships set to move learning disability patients to community

Alistair Kleebauer

NMC addresses concerns for students in Wales

Local public will see ‘Ofsted’ health service ratings

Distinguish designated and named nurse roles for children in care, says RCN

Adequate work breaks would help reduce nurses’ obesity – RCN

Over-reliance on unregistered staff is a false economy, says professor

Clare Lomas

No more excuses on institutional care

Colin Parish