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From acute to primary care

Lynne Pearce

How to land that job

Erin Dean

Preventing CAUTIs

Laura Cardy

Use of compression therapy in patients with lymphoedema

Anita Hobday

Best practice in wound assessment

Maureen Benbow

How to apply vacuum-assisted closure therapy

Georgina Ellis

Win: Essential Examination

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Stephen Taylor, Paula Gardiner, Zeba Arif, Kirby Walters, Vasanti d’Hooghe, G Brooks

Correction

Guildford School of Nursing to hold reunion for 1976 students

Chris Clunie

Could Italy’s new primary care model be the way forward?

Emma Vincent

Nurse roles should not be at the ‘whim of the political class’

Kevin Davies

With such an NHS staff shortfall, who will work on the ‘mothballed’ wards?

Karen Chilver

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

Margaret Paul

Baby and Child First Aid app

Layla Haidrani

Managing the Menopause: 21st Century Solutions

Daphne McCrea

Living Confidently with HIV – a Self-Help Book for People Living with HIV (Revised Edition)

Michelle Croston

Nursing through Shot & Shell: A Great War Nurse’s Story

Emma Vincent

Starting out - Confidence to speak up for patients is one of my most valuable lessons

Catherine Moloughney

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Tackling a sweet dilemma

Beverley Ramdeen, Jane Brown, Linda Drake, Mike Wallis

Paws for thought

David Newnham

Push fluids!

Jane Bates

On course to tweet

Ray Jones

Voices - Stand together and be heard to ensure patient safety, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Time to sweep aside the tyranny of paperwork

Chris Tuckett

A lifeline for cancer patients in Africa

Jacqui Thornton

Where age is no bar to friendship

Jennifer Trueland

Pneumonia

Improving delivery of blood products would reduce deaths after major haemorrhage

Ask older patients with knee osteoarthritis about buckling to prevent recurrent falls

Wheezing in infancy points to higher risk of respiratory problems in adulthood

Brain’s response to placebo in Parkinson’s disease could lessen need for medication

Heart disease rates fall after national smoking bans are introduced

Collapse in overseas nurse recruits exposes UK’s staffing shortfall

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Call for 24/7 end of life community nursing

Pressure ulcer scanners rolled out to more trusts after successful trial

Linsey Wynton

News in brief

Lincolnshire nurses trial phone assessment service

Training aid for mental care staff

‘Worrying picture’ of violence and work-related stress in staff survey

Chris Longhurst

Careers clinic helps turn around trust’s staff retention troubles

Trust deal offers higher salaries in lieu of pension

‘Modest’ boost in training places is not enough – RCN

Skipping meals ‘typical’ in NHS work day

Charity raises a glass to brewery windfall

Students’ age profile sparks fears about deterrent effect of loans

Stephanie Jones-Berry

You can’t argue with statistics – or can you?

Graham Scott