Student life - Homophobia is just poor care by another name

Grant Byrne

Noticeboard

Care for all sexual orientations

Lynne Pearce

Make a CV work harder

Erin Dean

Encephalitis

Ruth Beretta

Acute pulmonary oedema

Jessica Powell, David Graham, Sarah O’Reilly, Gillian Punton

Palliative and end of life care for people with dementia

Karen Harrison Dening

How to perform irrigation of the eye

Janet Marsden

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Gemma Wilson, Lisa Walker

Consider deeper implications of the effects of domestic abuse

Hands up who thinks nurses are well paid in Northern Ireland

Orla McAlinden

Catheter procedures expose variations in nurse practice

Jennifer Hunt

Heartfelt thanks to emergency department for brilliant care

Candice Pellett

It is vital that we have input on nursing associate consultation

Jenny Kay

Let’s keep a record of how we work so nursing isn’t airbrushed from history

John Adams

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

Margaret Paul

WellMind app

Layla Haidrani

Understanding Loss: A Guide for Caring for Those Facing Adversity

Christine Eberhardie

Using Health Policy in Nursing Practice

Juliet Thomas

Understanding Mental Disorders: Your Guide to DSM-5

Nigel Wellman

Starting out - Difficult placement taught me how to challenge prejudice in practice

David Donovan

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Nursing a grievance

Linda Drake, Jane Brown, Rachel Kent, Pete Hawkins

No one panic

David Newnham

Best left unsaid

Jane Bates

A proud LGBT history

Jason Warriner

Voices - Viv Bennett outlines the key priorities in improving health inequalities

Viv Bennett

Win: Dad’s Not All There Anymore

Shock therapies

Erin Dean

LGBT youth missing out on support

Erin Dean

Zero tolerance for unhealthy attitudes

Erin Dean

Sepsis

Simple algorithm can predict the five-year likelihood of developing dementia

High potato consumption during pregnancy can increase gestational diabetes risk

Textile dust exposure found to double rheumatoid arthritis risk among working women

Analysis of four million patients reveals women at greater heart disease risk than men

Community nurses are key to cutting emergency demand

Safe staffing guidance still elusive – three years on from Mid Staffs

Crash patients give back to wards

Mental health nursing workforce under pressure as numbers slump

Mary Griffin

News in brief

Infection prevention toolkit targets pneumonia and UTIs

Survey takes a safe staffing snapshot

No overlap between nurse and associate role – HEE

Student credits weight loss with the confidence to seek placement in Africa

NMC to modernise its standards for pre-reg education

‘Nurses and paramedics should be the only call handlers at NHS 111’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

RCN Scotland calls on politicians to show their support for nursing issues

Improving nutrition in dementia care

DH might secure student bursary cut and bypass Commons vote

Alistair Kleebauer, Chris Longhurst

Perhaps we’re not as accepting as we think

Graham Scott