Student life - Make the most of learning

Nichola Lambert

Shining a light on research

Frances Pickersgill

Notice board

A vital service in transition

Catharine Sadler

Show them you’re a star

Mike Higgins

Skin flora

Tracy Mooney

Preparing for your annual staff appraisal: part 2

Bob Price

Acute oxygen therapy for patients in the community

David Lynes, Carol Kelly

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: diagnosis and management

Gerri Kaufman

Healthcare professionals’ knowledge of calories

Elizabeth Cottrell, Ruth Chambers

Parker, Edith

John Adams

Seeking set Q nurses who trained at Hammersmith Hospital 1973-76

Gill Allcock

Ethical good practice invariably demands meaningful engagement

Gillian James

Different terms and expressions only serve to muddy the waters

Simon Jones

Tweets of the week

Bridging the gap between hunger and obesity through networking

Danielle Nierenberg

Community nursing blueprint is out of touch with reality

Greta McGough

Parenteral thiamine has a key role in treating alcohol misuse

Vix Didcott

Preparation is key for health work in developing countries

Poppy Spens

Confusion over the terms ‘end of life care’ and ‘palliative care’

Amanda Williams

Older nurses need to accept that the profession had to change

Leonie Grundy

I am shocked when I hear people complain that nursing is no longer recruiting the right sort of people

Emily Hards,

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

Margaret Paul

The Daphne Iceberg Project

Greta McGough

White Ship, Red Crosses: A Nursing Memoir of The Falklands War – Third edition

John Adams

Pit Stop – A Career Workbook for Busy People

Active Support – Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities

Simon Jones

Readers panel - To tweet or not to tweet…

Scott Justice, Stephanie Cumming, Linda Drake, Craig Hopkins

Starting out - Even a first-year student can make a positive difference to patient care

Penelope Rudd

Ditching nurse icon from curriculum is a bad idea

Natasha McEnroe

Loaf and death

Listen to the experts

Yasmin Batliwala

Logging off

Jean Gray says politicians should be accountable for staff numbers

Educating women to be nurses in Bangladesh

Global connections

Alison Moore

Exposed and vulnerable

Stephen Wright

Petition urges rethink on change to curriculum

Is a grounding in nurse history necessary?

Role models face class expulsion

Jennifer Sprinks

Properly trained dogs can screen a ward for cases of C. diffcile in ten minutes

Traditional diabetes support programmes are less effective than intensive intervention

Baby’s behaviour often ignored in assessments of mother-infant interaction

Strong family history of seizures increases chance of experiencing migraines

Men receiving treatment for prostate cancer need ongoing support

Universities demand that new students demonstrate empathy

Jennifer Sprinks

World in brief

Shortlist for Nursing Standard’s 2013 nurse awards announced

Political notebook 23.01.13

Nurses who took hoax calls ‘were not identifiable’

Patient feedback prompts five NHS boards to trial new visiting hours

Christian Duffin

European Court puts safety first in ruling on nurse wearing a crucifix

Christian Duffin

Government sets up review of emergency services

News in brief

Employers should embrace social media, says guidance

Hearing witnesses granted anonymity

Scores give us ammunition when referring patients

Swift take-up of standardised early warning system across NHS trusts

Jennifer Sprinks

Mid staffs faces threat of special administration

South west pay cartel’s cost-cutting plans delayed

Staff cast as soap stars to promote handwashing

The complexities of gathering evidence for historic cases

Further financial pressure on trusts as Savile investigations begin

Sally Gillen

Compassion tests make sense if well executed

Graham Scott