Student life - ‘I caught the research bug’

Lisa Kirwan

Noticeboard

Why work in nursing research?

A different perspective

Erin Dean

Osteoarthritis

Emma Timmins

Role of the nurse in managing complaints in their clinical area

William Gage

Facilitation of learning: part 1

Tyler Warburton, Houghton Trish, Debbie Barry

How to perform transrectal ultrasound and prostate biopsy

Bruce Turner, Lawrence Drudge-Coates

Most experienced nurses need to return to the bedside

Linda Nazarko

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Deirdre Mulvenna-Pegrum, Barbara Coles Fletcher

Get your rightful tax relief without losing a penny of it

Christine Beaumont-Rydings

Raise pay to halt this artificial nursing recruitment crisis

Anthony Johnson

Autocratic leaders belong in the forces not in nursing

Marie Rowe

A £600 million stick to beat us with so we’re forced to eat more carrots

Malcolm Harrison

Meningitis Signs and Symptoms

Layla Haidrani

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

Margaret Paul

The Life Project

Irene Mabbott

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance

Jackie Riddett

Leadership, Management & Team Working in Nursing (2 nd Edition)

Jason Warriner

Starting out - My self-disclosure helped a patient to open up about her depression

Laura Maynard

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - The pay or people question

Jane Brown, Pete Hawkins, Drew Payne, Liz Charalambous

Testing times

David Newnham

Voices - The revised Code presents a huge opportunity, says NMC chair Janet Finch

Janet Finch

Friend or foe?

Jane Bates

Numbers don’t add up

Dave O’Carroll, Ann MacMahon

Patient’s Choice: vote for your favourite

Elaine Cole

Mental health and loneliness in old age

Andrew Cole

Why nursing research matters

Andrew Cole

Epilepsy

Single-use means for waste disposal favoured by nurses over reusable receptacles

E-cigarette age restrictions are endorsed even by adolescents who smoke

Increasing brain volume with physical exercise associated with lowering dementia risk

High cost of NHS wound care could be reduced by wider training for clinical staff

Fruit juice drinks aimed at children contain extreme levels of sugar

Noise levels in intensive care units similar to those of busy restaurants

Layla Haidrani

Information is given a mat finish

News in brief

Multimorbidity draft rules published for consultation

Cash boost to rare dementia research

‘Meagre’ uplift in nurse numbers is no match for surge in demand

Petra Kendall-Raynor

It’s 2016 and profession still seen as a girls’ job

Two UK schools of nursing are world-beaters

Call for nurses to speak up about how climate change is affecting their work

NHS unveils national policy for whistleblowers

Training ‘not reaching everyone’

Patients still left in the dark about palliative care, national audit finds

Chris Longhurst

Research should be a part of every nurse’s life

Janet Snell