Student life - Inspiration from the top

Ben Mtisi

An underrated leadership skill

Ginny Colwell

Notice board

Older people need expert carers

Catharine Sadler

Compassion into action

Liz Adamson

Diabetic foot ulcers

Lisa Scott

Promoting mental and physical health in adults with psychosis

Hilary Jane Mairs, Tim Bradshaw

Management of poisoning in adults

Janice Pettie, Margaret Dow

Preventing acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in COPD patients

David Moore

Tweets of the week

Were you a mount vernon nurse cadet who started in 1973?

Sue Earney

Reviews of books such as ‘rehab blues’ make a welcome change

Christine Clark

Higher taxes or charges are needed to pay for 24-hour care

Malcolm Harrison

Experience of walk-in centre and NHS 111 made me hanker after A&E

Pat Beeden

Commissioning changes may lead to a leadership vacuum

Yasmin Batliwala

Education is power, and to many this is undesirable in nurses

Nicola Fulstow

As a profession, we need to grow up and win back public confidence

Mary Butt

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

Margaret Paul

The Nightingale Sisters

Kelly Smith

Key Concepts in Sports Studies

Garry McGurk

The Mystery of Pain

Sarah Ryan

new-leaf.org.uk

Roger Evans

First aid should be part of the school curriculum

Joe Mulligan

Readers panel - A single point of contact

Paul Jebb, Kate Tantam, Jane Scullion, Elsie Gayle

Starting out - I aim to teach mental health patients about the dangers of illicit drugs

Melissa Patterson

Just a minute

David Newnham

Not all at once

Jane Bates

The right to be heard

Jayne Wilson

Voices - Community-based care has district nurses at its heart, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

Caring for a killer

Erin Dean

A manager’s workout

Jessica Higson

League of friends

Katie Oakley

A collaborative approach to change

Putting patients first

Lynne Pearce

Doctors encouraged to discuss placebo treatments in light of patients’ approval of their use

Incidence of oral oncogenic HPV infection is highest in single men who smoke

Two servings of oily fish a week provides optimum benefits to cardiac health

Nurses cope with making an error by planning how to improve their practice

Red meat intake has direct correlation with diabetes risk

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

Stephen Wright

End of pathway leaves questions about what will take its place

Christian Duffin

Ten-year misconduct case dismissed at High Court

NMC unveils support mechanisms to help witnesses in FtP hearings

Kat Keogh

After all that studying, it is time to get to work

World in brief

Political notebook

Nurses told to carry on using the Liverpool Care Pathway

Leading nurse receives Queen’s Medal

Experts warn of excessive heat risks as weather triggers rise in A&E visits

Christian Duffin

News in brief

‘I devolved staff management,’ says ex-Mid Staffs chief nurse

Manager dismissed for race comments

Students could join CQC inspection teams following role with Keogh

Senior nurse calls for ‘essential standards’ on staffing levels

Keogh review: spotlight falls on 14 hospitals

Review identifies key areas for improved quality of care

Trusts launch recruitment drives in bid to tackle death rate anomalies

Sally Gillen

Exhibition to celebrate nurse’s star turn

Burnout may be responsible for referrals of older nurses to NMC

Kat Keogh

Nursing students’ fresh outlook could save NHS

Graham Scott