Student life - Professional conduct

Mandy Day-Calder

Noticeboard

Dual role in mesothelioma care

Catharine Sadler

Be a leading candidate

Erin Dean

Pulmonary oedema

Abby Morrow-Barnes

Moving and handling: reducing risk through assessment

Gemma Warren

The effect of nursing staff on student learning in the clinical setting

Alanna Webster, Caitlin Bowron, Nancy Matthew-Maich, Priscilla Patterson

How to perform digital removal of faeces

Ian Peate

Tweets of the week

Former director of RCN Wales Liz Hewett began at Ty Maeth in 1998

Tracy Lenzy

Join us on streets to demand our say in decisions on NHS reforms

Sami Hillyer

Health visitors know the benefits of breastfeeding

Penelope Braybrooke

Ageist comments by colleagues need to be challenged

Wendy Harrison

Action will boost awareness and training on domestic abuse

Amanda Burston

This civic honour is just the boost our humble nursing spirits need

Linsey Sheerin

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

Margaret Paul

Forest: Stay Focused app

Layla Haidrani

Honest Answers, Sound Advice: A Young Person’s Guide to Cancer

Martina Nathan

Surviving Brain Damage After Assault: From Vegetative State to Meaningful Life

Ava Easton

Reflection for Nursing Life: Principles, Process and Practice

Keith Booles

Starting out - Do not write off a placement before you’ve given it a chance

Aaron Pearson

Medicine management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - When the pressure piles up

Stephanie Cumming, Pete Hawkins, Daniel Athey, Parveen Ali

Only skin deep

David Newnham

Hard to define

Jane Bates

Let’s hear it for loans

Jenny Kay

Voices - Jane Cummings believes her new strategy will help nurses lead NHS change

Jane Cummings

Making health a community issue

Elaine Cole

New funding cap for cancer drugs

Ann Dix

Autism services ‘let people down’

Andrew Cole

Prostate cancer

Breast cancer radiotherapy treatments calculated to have environmental impact

Lack of compliance with NICE guidance cited for variations in hip fracture surgery

NHS should carry out more gastric band surgery to help fight obesity and diabetes

Changes in alcohol intake over time found to affect disease risk

Morning sickness drug is not linked to increased risk of birth defects

Effective, safe and affordable – the nurse’s dream shopping list

Alistair Kleebauer

Roald Dahl nurses’ rose is a peach

Hospital staff ‘frustrated’ at lack of progress on delayed discharge

Kat Keogh

News in brief

‘Patients with lung conditions should have specialist support’

Be alert to suicide’s silent risk factors

Nurses need to be leaders, NMC told

Report calls for nurses to have a greater role on governing bodies

‘We couldn’t do this without the bursary’

Labour: we’ll fight the plan

Loss of bursary ‘will lead to staff cuts and debts’

Kat Keogh, Hannah Flynn

Belfast gives nurses freedom of the city for work during the Troubles

Associate role in motion, despite concern over ‘nursing on the cheap’

Kat Keogh

If nursing associates are here to stay, get involved

Graham Scott