Student life - Landing that first job

Sylvie Marshall-Lucette, Christine Chu

Real-time views of patient feedback

Notice board

Mobile devices to improve care

Sarah Wray

Environmental health

Lynne Pearce

Back pain

Irene Smith

Pharmacological management of acute asthma exacerbations in adults

Victoria Hazeldine

Management of major burns in the emergency department

Gabby Rowley-Conwy

Nurses’ knowledge of pressure ulcer risk assessment

Jamuna Joseph, Sian Davies Clifton

Implementing evidence-based health promotion strategies

Karen Morton

Tweets of the week

Spam marketing for personal medical cover is distasteful

Paula Duckworth

RCN needs to encourage debate at congress on NHS reforms

Sophie Conway Allan, Gay Lee, Jan Savage

Attempted withdrawal from the ICN is history repeating itself

James P Smith

Responsibility for personal care of patients is a grey area

Christy Baron

The number of organ donors will fall under opt-out consent

Roger Goss

Working directly with patients does not make you more caring

Fran Nichols

Care experience I gained as a support worker was invaluable

Mags Smith

The best nurses enter the profession with some life experience first

Mia Thuha

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

Margaret Paul

Football and Management – Comparisons Between Sport and Enterprise

Nicola Evans

How to Write Your Nursing Dissertation

Irene Mabbott

Grief and its Challenges

Maggy Wallace

poverty.ac.uk

Suzan Smallman

Old but not out

Zeba Arif

Put older people at the heart of the NHS

Michelle Mitchell

Starting out - I learned the importance of forward planning to enhance patient care

Joanna Martin

Staff have pivotal role in preventing sharps injuries

Debra Adams

Readers panel - Counting the cost of nursing

Scott Justice, Alison Crumbie, Jane Brown, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe

Future pastimes

David Newnham

Think about it

Jane Bates

Getting assessment right

Rita Cunningham

Voices - The NHS reforms have spurred an atypical political response, notes Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Treated with dignity

Alison Moore

United we stand

Erin Dean

Complications during labour increase likelihood of breastfeeding difficulties

Greater interaction between nursing home residents helps ward off depressive symptoms

Clinicians urged to consider lower-potency statins for patients with kidney disease

Young people who have had a stroke are likely to die slightly earlier than general population

Telehealth fails to add cost or quality value to standard treatment

WRIGHT ANGLE - Stephen Wright’s monthly take on nursing in the news

Stephen Wright

How ICN fees are calculated

Can the RCN afford to stay with the International Council of Nurses?

Sally Gillen

Doctor blames nurse for fatal operation

Support workers reject Hunt’s dismissal of statutory regulation

World in brief

Mixed response to Thatcher’s legacy and influence on the NHS

Sally Gillen

Staff work overtime to tackle measles epidemic

RCN congress promises to be a hotbed of discussion and debate

Stephanie Jones Berry

News in brief

Leadership skills course honours Mary Seacole

Fundraising boost for statue appeal

Portraits honour patients with parkinson’s and their carers

Commissioning groups ‘respect what nurses bring to the table’

Stephanie Jones Berry

Flytipped notes lead to sack for hospital veteran

New contracts via redundancies fought by unions

Nurses credited with raising donor organs through work with families

Car crash hero wins award for bravery

NHS England review needs nurses’ input to help assess shift patterns

Jennifer Sprinks

Promoting compassion starts from the top

Janet Snell