Student life - A lack of understanding?

Five steps to work happiness

Nicola Davies

Noticeboard

Let’s sit down and talk about it

Kathy Oxtoby

Making the trial run

Nicola Davies

Communication

Clare Rogers

Prevention and management of comorbid diabetes and depression

Paula Mayo

Efficiency and cost effectiveness of negative pressure wound therapy

Holly Anthony

Managing venous leg ulcers and oedema using compression hosiery

Joy Tickle

Thrombolysis for patients with acute ischaemic stroke

Elmer Javier Catangui

How to administer intramuscular injections

Angelina Chadwick, Neil Withnell

Win: Assesssment and Care Planning

Tweets of the week

Poor choice of words to describe mental health therapy

John Adams

Time for reflection is a strength of the revalidation process

Donato Tallo

The first nurses to revalidate won’t have years to prepare

Ann Wright

BME contribution would remain ‘invisible’ without this month

Eric Adjaidoo

Safe staffing is much too important to be treated like a children’s game

Susan Osborne, Helen Thompson, Jenny Kay

Celebration of black history is as relevant now as ever

Joan Myers

Every general practice should appoint a carers’ champion

Marie Therese Massey

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

Margaret Paul

NICE BNF

Allan Brown

Eye Emergencies: The Practitioner’s Guide (Second edition)

Janet Marsden

Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

Penny Fawthrop

Women and Alcohol: Social Perspectives

Sara Strodtbeck

Starting out - I helped Molly to feel like a writer again, instead of a stroke patient

Elizabeth Clark

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - The front line for equality

Beverley Brathwaite, Drew Payne, Edwin Chamanga, Linda Drake

Genetic make-up

David Newnham

Love does it

Jane Bates

Shifting boundaries

June Andrews

Voices - Make your contribution to NHS England’s strategy, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

Specialty that boosts survival

At what age are you too old to treat?

Jennifer Trueland

‘I want nurses to flourish in all areas’

Jennifer Trueland

Cardiovascular disease

Dying at home is more peaceful for terminally ill patients and their relatives, say researchers

Women with osteoarthritis of the knee experience greater pain sensitivity than men

Efforts to end female genital mutilation are being hindered by some health professionals

Discovery of five new genes linked to the most common form of brain cancer

Nurses need more help in promoting benefits of smoking cessation

Running the rule over revalidation: how does the system measure up?

News in brief

RCN rejects a return to second level nursing roles

Nurse peer joins the house of lords

Hospitals should do more to reduce incidence of falls, says RCP report

Christian Duffin

Positive portraits for older people’s unit

CQC report on standards of care finds safety is the biggest concern

Tim Harrison

Nurses awarded royal honours

Nursing put on shortage occupancy list for visas

Pauline Cafferkey’s condition improves after Ebola relapse

Capping agency staff rates ‘will not resolve huge financial deficits’

Kline slams managers’ race record

Advice to be ‘flexible’ on staffing ratios could backfire, says RCN

Chris Longhurst

Are NHS race equality policies up to standard?

Graham Scott