Student life - The world is your oyster

Erin Dean

Noticeboard

Working with the homeless

Catharine Sadler

Make an impression

Dean Gurden

Nutrition in hospital

Catherine Stansfield

Hallucinations: insights and supportive first care

Bob Price

Horticultural therapy in dementia care: a literature review

Marianne Blake, Gary Mitchell

How to measure blood pressure manually

Melanie Rushton, Joyce Smith

Win: Introduction to Nursing Research

Tweets of the week

These associate roles are vital in a community setting

Ami David, Sylvia Gnanapragasam, Theresa Berry

This short-sighted plan to cut bursaries is self-defeating

Obi Amadi

Students’ passion for their work filled me with hope for future

Gail Adams

The bursary cut petition is just the start of a long battle

Kat Webb

Humour in dementia studies is not a laughing matter

Camilla Clark, Jason Warren

Proud to stand shoulder to shoulder on the picket line with these heroes

Liz Charalambous

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

Margaret Paul

Change4Life Sugar Smart app

Layla Haidrani

Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes; How it Works in Practice

Margot Lindsay

Do We Need Midwives?

Alison Brodrick

Jones’ Clinical Paediatric Surgery

Debbie Killman

Starting out - My experience as a psychiatric patient has made me a better nurse

Helena King

Workplace wisdom

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - The thorny subject of obesity

Rachel Kent, Mark Pittman, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Pete Hawkins

Tree of pain

David Newnham

Money matters

Jane Bates

Value for money

David Wood

Voices - The government is making staff shortages worse, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Getting clever to beat tuberculosis

Elaine Cole

When one question leads to another

Jennifer Sprinks

ADHD and medication

Study finds differences in social skills between girls and boys with autism

Screening programmes could cut number of deaths from ovarian cancer by one fifth

Children of substance-abusing parents can benefit from family-based support system

People with hepatitis C virus are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease

No link found between oral contraceptive use and major birth defects

Retirement and replacement – the double whammy for primary care

Petra Kendall-Raynor

College hails guidance for nurses on recognising signs of sepsis

Linsey Wynton

War experiences to be recorded for posterity

News in brief

Senior nurse highlights lack of choice about end of life care

Guideline to save time pre-surgery

Picket line boost for junior doctors

Proposed 2% expansion in adult nurse training places is paltry – RCN

Alistair Kleebauer

Students demand bursary talks with Jeremy Hunt

MS Trust critical of guidance on multiple sclerosis

Overseas recruitment problems create staff shortages for the profession

DH evidence to NHS Pay Review Body emphasises need for 1% cap

Alistair Kleebauer

RCN event marks 100 years of college

As cost of living grows, a 1% rise won’t go far

Christine Walker