Student life - Worldwide student network identifies emerging trends

Kathy Oxtoby

Our care home is an integral part of the local community

John Hamilton

Notice board

Speeding up the NMC Process

Andrea James

A ‘can-do’ attitude

Claire Green

Asthma and allergic rhinitis

Tracy Mooney

Role of the nurse in addressing the health effects of climate change

Benny Goodman

Treating men with eating disorders in the NHS

Jane Dalgliesh, Katherine Nutt

Development of a language identification tool

Charlotte Davies, Frank Milligan

Tweets of the week

Could members of Southampton’s April 1984 set please get in touch

Andy Edgington

Making use of the knowledge and experience of retired stewards

Jenny Janes

Dean Royles’ comments only go to show how out of touch he is

David Harding-Price

Molly Chase’s ‘nursing the nation’ was a highlight of RCN congress

Lynn Gordon

Withdrawal from the ICN is the nuclear option for the college

Jane Salvage

Why leave the ICN when it does so much important global work?

Jane Robinson

I need a PA to do the paperwork that takes me away from nursing

Helen Evans

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

Margaret Paul

Cannabis Nation – Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008

Roger Evans

Vaccine – The Debate in Modern America

Valerie McGurk

The Psychology of Ageing: An Introduction – Fifth edition

Peter Barraclough

mycancertreatment.nhs.uk

Rachael Rowe

‘The NMC is improving’

Jackie Smith

Showing the NHS at its caring best

Irene Heywood Jones

Workforce

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - I may miss learning opportunities unless I learn to say ‘no’ sometimes

Claire Whipp

Boost the status and salaries of charge nurses

Baron Leslie Turnberg

Readers panel - The hub of ward problems

Stephanie Cumming, Paul Jebb, Jane Brown, Esther Tanton

Cereal offenders

David Newnham

Full circle

Jane Bates

Stripping away power

Stephen Wright

Voices - Acute and community nurses need to get closer, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Easier does it

Lynne Pearce

‘Electric cars are great for work and the environment’

Green pioneers

Jennifer Trueland

Prompt assessments reduce length of stay

Respond to the person, not the age

Erin Dean

Bloodstream infection risk lowered when children are bathed in topical antiseptic

Vitamin D deficiency can lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes in women

Appendectomies carried out through ‘pinhole’ surgery show significant benefits

Men on high doses of amiodarone show increased chance of developing cancer

Lumbar punctures more successful when guided by ultrasound imaging

A new way of delivering tailored care or just more bureaucracy?

Kat Keogh

Patient group criticises Hunt’s compulsory work experience plan

Kat Keogh, Jennifer Sprinks

Lack of regulation puts old and frail at risk, says peer

Unequivocal vote against splitting college functions

Protected time for mentors is ‘vital’ to stay on par with other professions

‘I was starving to death in hospital’

Members give RCN the go-ahead to quit international nursing body

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

College announces priorities for the next five years

Rotational posts bid fails to win support

Struggling A&Es create new roles to deal with lengthening queues

Jennifer Sprinks

Student’s poem is internet hit

Lowest paid choose between clothes, food and fuel

Public’s access to information on care often refused

Failure to annul section 75 of health act leaves NHS open to competition

Political hopeful proposes health MOTs for teens

RCN urges government to act now or risk staffing crisis across NHS

Jennifer Sprinks

Hunt’s dreamed-up policy has no place in reality

Graham Scott