Student life - From student days to your first shift in charge

Lowri Aldworth

Noticeboard

Why I now take the global view

Liz Charalambous

It’s better together

Lynne Wigens

Surgical outcomes

Halina Skawina

Managing patients with encephalitis

Claire Matata, Ava Easton, Benedict Michael, Becky Evans, Deborah Ward, Tom Solomon, Rachel Kneen

Assessing fitness to detain in police custody

Matthew Peel

Person-centred communication in dementia care

Murna Downs, Lindsey Collins

How to assess deteriorating patients

Mike Barker, Melanie Rushton, Joyce Smith

Win: Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Wendy King, Stuart McGill, Elliott Vincent, Anne Badere, Sara Elizabeth Brown, Nicky Bryant

Fit for purpose – and for my revalidation requirements

Louise McAdam

Nominate your everyday heroes in health care or the community

David Jinks

Proposed changes mean reducing skills, not raising the bar

Doreen Crawford

Your chance to have a say on the future of nursing education

Orla Mc Alinden

Achievements in dementia care can be celebrated – and shared

Karen Dening

Don’t complicate the nurse’s role in delivering medicines to patients

Mike McHale

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

Margaret Paul

Big White Wall app

Layla Haidran

Wound Management for the Advanced Practitioner

Irene Anderson

Older Adults and Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Introduction and Guide (First edition)

Christopher Barber

Essential Pathophysiology for Nursing and Healthcare Students

Penny Fawthrop

Starting out - A familiar face can be reassuring in a ward with high staff turnover

Mike Wallis

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - Not such a sweet solution

Pete Hawkins, Edwin Chamanga, Drew Payne, Grace Vanterpool

Visionary ideas

David Newnham

Mums’ army

Jane Bates

More than a badge

Mark Butler

Voices - Victory on overseas nurses shows us the fight was worth it, says Janet Davies

Janet Davies

A helping hand for diabetes care

Elanie Cole

Testing times for BRCA gene carriers

Daloni Carlisle

Dementia and frailty

London cancer survival figures underline the importance of early diagnosis

Half an hour of gardening has potential to combat ill health and improve wellbeing

Risk of inappropriate drug monitoring and prescribing in UK surgeries revealed

Links discovered between sex hormones, SHBG and the risk of developing bowel cancer

More prolonged use of dementia drug could prove to be beneficial

Learning disability nurses prepare to face the community challenge

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Student raises £10,000 after pioneering surgery

Report reveals 85% of paediatric ICUs have staffing levels shortfall

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

RCN Wales director calls for close monitoring of ‘ambitious targets’

Safety alert issued on the use of hoists

International comparison of health systems casts UK in a dismal light

Chris Longhurst

Activists fight trade union bill

‘Safe’ staffing law for Wales expected by early 2016

‘Women are more realistic than men about dementia’

Benefits of ‘taste therapy’ outlined

Poignant year for nursing as RCN remembers heroic sacrifices

Unions call for clarity following dispute over junior doctors’ pay

Louise Hunt, Chris Longhurst

So much work to do to raise our game on health

Graham Scott