Student life - Staying the course

Linda Ferguson

Notice Board

Roster planning made easy

Sarah Wray

Caribbean challenge

Gemma Handy, Poorna Rodrigo

Spiritual care needs

Rebecca Therese Muckle

Penile cancer: diagnosis, clinical features and management

Bruce Turner, Lawrence Drudge-Coates, Sarah Henderson

Integrating quality improvement into pre-registration education

Aled Jones, Angela Williams, Andrew Carson-Stevens

Examining the evidence for the use of probiotics in clinical practice

Mary Hickson

Tweets of the week

Just how far are we expected to travel for our placements?

Donna Harris

I commend the nurse of the year’s work in raising copd awareness

Sandy Walmsley

Records at my mother’s nursing home testified to exemplary care

Nicola Sheldrake

Let the BBC know if you see a nursing error in casualty

Manjit Bains

This is our last chance to fight the immoral NHS reforms

Karen Chilver

Introducing competition throughout the NHS will not benefit patient care

Craig Hopkins

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

Margaret Paul

Do Good Charity

Roger Evans

It’s Raining Cats and Dogs – An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions

Simon Jones

Nursing and Health: Portfolios and Reflective Practice – Survival Guide

Karen Elcock

Conflict and Health

Sue Campbell

Readers panel - Treating obesity effectively

Shona MacLean, Paul Jebb, Stephanie Cumming, Grace Vanterpool

Starting out - undertaking a record-keeping audit helped improve staff performance

Sarah MacGill, Holly Delaney

Champion of nursing

Daniel Allen

Health for all

Daloni Carlisle

‘We have given up complaining’: A daughter’s story

Never enough staff to care

Thelma Agnew

Lighter babies are born to mothers whose lifestyle is affected by Ramadan

Mortality of coronary patients is higher among those exposed to air pollution

Common Parkinson’s-related gene mutation linked to problems with vision

Patients with breast cancer fail to receive routine follow up advice on sexual wellbeing

Internet addiction may be partly to blame for nurses’ fatigue levels

Keep health services accountable by empowering staff

Daniel Kelly

In-tents triage

Stand up and be accountable for care

Karen Webb

It’s all a blur

Practice nurses’ careers are about to receive a boost

Tell the full story

Gemma Hammond

The antibiotics crisis requires big thinking

Stephen Wright

What will be the real cost of the ‘bedroom tax’?

Stephen Wright

Benefit cuts will directly affect our profession

Stephen Wright

Awards event puts the profession’s finest in the spotlight

World in brief

Regulator set to reject case for tiered registration fees

Political notebook 20.03.13

Tasty idea for raising dough

CQC criticises lack of privacy and dignity in England’s care homes

Christian Duffin

News in brief

More evidence needed to show value of 12-hour shifts

New group to make zero harm a reality

Castledine hearing to conclude this week

Mid Staffs chief nurse faces NMC fitness to practise panel hearing

Sally Gillen, Sarah Harrison

Care makers take CNO’s vision to every trust and university

Guidance aims to support nurse directors in ensuring safe staffing

Jennifer Sprinks, Sally Gillen

Training in dementia care skills saves millions

Students swap places with patients

Trust vows to tackle crisis in emergency unit

Anger as employers’ boss says 1 per cent pay award is too costly

Sally Gillen

Freezing pay is no way to make efficiency savings

Graham Scott