Legal advice

Richard Griffith

Keep pressure in check

Robin Lewis

New uniforms help clear up confusion

Jenny Knight

Focus on improving orthopaedic care

Mary Drozd

‘I’ll keep working as long as I can’

Pat Hogg

Beware the perils of social networking

Jane Redfern Jones

Making people feel at home

Titilayo Akinwonmi-Pedro

Courses & resources

Support staff shine in awards

Student life - The future is in our hands

Lynn Gordon

‘I see myself an ambassador for my profession and patients’

Pam Shaw

Notice board

Working to improve outcomes

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Because you’re worth it

Ann McDonnell, Kate Gerrish, Fiona Kennedy

Mental health emergencies

Brenda Chivima

Caring for adult patients who require nasogastric feeding tubes

Kristine Curtis

A competency framework for inflammatory bowel disease nurses

Mark Sephton, Karen Kemp

Planning successful change incorporating processes and people

Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor

Lesley Wade

Claire Chatterton

Seeking nurses who remember the birth of the NHS in 1948

Tom Olney

More and more natural human behaviour is being pathologised

Jess Hamilton

Tweets of the week

Force-feeding of prisoners is contrary to nursing ethics

Ann Gallagher

Student’s decisive approach to first aid should be commended

Val Sharkey

Why do we need a referendum on Europe, but not one on the NHS?

Jane Trott

My career has spanned decades of pointless NHS restructuring

Gillian James

A leadership programme should be named after Miss Nightingale

Paul Hawkins

Ward nurses were too busy to provide my mother’s pain relief

Who is responsible for reporting unsafe staffing levels on the ward?

Karen Littlechild

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

Margaret Paul

Sport Studies

Nicola Evans

Coping Successfully with Chronic Illness – Your Healing Plan

Heather Dale

The Body in Society: An Introduction – Second edition

Garry McGurk

startswithme.org.uk

Drew Payne

Starting out - I overcame my lack of confidence to challenge experienced nurses

Holly Howe Watson

Day to celebrate

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Keeping advice to the point

Shona MacLean, Craig Hopkins, Linda Drake, Elsie Gayle

Dark remedies

David Newnham

History lesson

Jane Bates

Show of support

Karen Howell

Voices - The NMC’s new members have plenty of experience, as Mark Addison explains

Mark Addison

Let’s talk about sex

Helen Etherton

Those were the days

Claire Laurent

Cases up, backlog down

Erin Dean

Taking a hard line on performance

Erin Dean

Co-mothers say contact with maternity care staff has been ‘overwhelmingly positive’

Many women who report problems conceiving do not know when they might be fertile

Postmenopausal patients using HRT have stronger muscles than non-HRT users

Warn potential living donors about the risk of complications, including mortality

Migraine in children linked to history of infantile colic

‘There would be no NHS without the contribution of immigrants’

Jennifer Sprinks

Breakthrough in chronic back pain will be welcomed by nurses

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

Stephen Wright

News update

Number struck off the NMC register soars as regulator cuts FtP backlog

Kat Keogh

TV drama depicts ‘unsung heroes’ of district nursing

World in brief

Political notebook

Health and social care teams unite to improve adult services

Protestors rally against ‘demolition of NHS’

Emergency staff call for urgent action as A&E crisis deepens

Kat Keogh, Stephanie Jones-Berry

Nursing input helps prevent detentions

News in brief

Jimmy Savile alleged to have abused patients aged five

Uniforms and clearer job titles help patients identify who’s who

Kat Keogh

Nurse secures £3m investment in safer staffing

Call for dementia specialists in general practices

Women take heart from walking group

Charity looks a dead cert to win in the racing stakes

Experts ‘disappointed’ at minister’s refusal to meet over staffing levels

Jennifer Sprinks

Health minister should be listening to nurses

Graham Scott