Student life - Ethical care in action

Louistas Nyuyse, Nina Chua Deriu, Berhan Ogbe

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Life as an independent midwife

Erin Dean

Lightening the load

Dean Gurden

Spirituality

Rose Gallacher

Developing nursing care plans

Helen Ballantyne

Establishing effective working relationships

Trish Houghton

How to remove a pulmonary artery catheter

Katie Scales

Anna Bolam 1987-2015

John Adams

Margaret Brooke 1915-2016

John Adams

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Helen Eckersley, Karen Sneddon, Elizabeth Helen Atkinson, Denise Robertson

Challenging prejudice against LGBT people a big step forward

Jason Warriner

Muted protests on contracts fail nurses as well as their patients

Zeba Arif

These days we don’t have the luxury of ‘spares’ to go round

Lynne Parker

Care is not rocket science, it is about employing the right staff

Marie J Rowe

Government won’t back down, but that’s fine – because neither will we

Helen Corry

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

Margaret Paul

Doula Contraction Labor Coach app

Layla Haidrani

Assessment and Care Planning in Mental Health Nursing

Marjorie Lloyd

Love, Fear, and Health: How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care

Angela Davis

First Do No Harm

Valerie McGurk

Starting out - My first real-life resuscitation left me feeling proud but also sad

Gayatri Cook

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - Fare’s fair with help on travel

Rachel Kent, Sarah-Louise Flowers, Edwin Chamanga, Drew Payne

The wrong track

David Newnham

Continued confidence

Ruth Robertson

Voices - The NMC is responsive to nurses’ ever-changing needs, says Janet Finch

Janet Finch

Bump on board

Jane Bates

At the vanguard of partnership working

Alison Moore

Nurse-led general practice blazes a trail

Lynne Pearce

Tackling the impact of problem drinking

Jennifer Trueland

Tuberculosis

No association found between dementia and highest-level exposure to benzodiazepines

Intake of apples, peppers and other foods high in flavonoids helps prevent weight gain

Using illicit drugs leads to ninefold increase in likelihood of premature death

Immunity of breast cancer patients compromised months after chemotherapy treatment

Serial bouts of social media use linked to risk of disturbed sleep

Downbanded or deleted – how the NHS is shedding its senior nurses

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Pressure ulcer grading wheel gets full marks

Open visiting policy contributes to drop in falls by hospital patients

Alistair Kleebauer

Entries invited for new cancer research award

Learning disability patients ‘let down’

News in brief

Nurse who was dismissed from trust dies from burn injuries

RCN criticises Scottish bank staff change

Critical care professionals say intuition guides their work

Tatchell commends HIV support

NHS Improvement report shows need for 15,000 more nurses

Chris Longhurst

Message of thanks is out of this world

Hundreds of senior and specialist nursing posts lost across England

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Win: Clinical Pocket Reference Diabetes

Nurse-led practice is a model for change

Graham Scott