Student life - From Africa to the Americas

Michelle Moorst

Abuse is a healthcare issue

Lynne Pearce

Notice board

Signposts to job satisfaction

Petra Kendall-Raynor

The valued workforce

Erin Dean

Constructive feedback

Lisa Dryden

Whooping cough: identification, assessment and management

Jackie Bentley, Jenny Pinfield, Jo Rouse

Risk of suicide in patients with dementia: a case study

Linda Nicholson

Maria Karsa

John Adams

Dora Frost

John Adams

Tweets of the week

‘App’ could be the saviour of the NHS, if everyone had access to it

Sally Anne Mint

National nursing memorial has found an absolutely perfect home

Pat Beeden

Is the RCN giving out the wrong message to overseas nurses?

Kate Walters

Learn from past reports on handling patient complaints

James P Smith

Poor record-keeping is a matter best addressed by employers

Richard Evans

Guiding principle for inspectors: ‘would I be happy with this care?’

Louise Owen

How do nurses go about blowing the whistle on unsafe staffing?

Rachel Potter

Senior managers are oblivious to the cuts, carrying on regardless

Lis Stone

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

Margaret Paul

Symptomia app

Helen Sullivan

The Language of Medicine – Tenth edition

Simon McGurk

Study Skills for Master’s Level Students – A Reflective Approach for Health and Social Care

Susan Watkins

Psoriasis 360

Rebecca Davis

We can all help reduce the resistance threat

Rose Gallagher

Readers panel - Trying to account for taste

Paul Jebb, Florence Winterflood, Jane Brown, Esther Tanton

Starting out - Upsetting situation showed me the values of family-centred care

Catherine Corfield

No brainer

David Newnham

Bossy is best

Jane Bates

Meditate to medicate

Stephen Wright

Voices - The nursing workforce is crying out for investment, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Paper-free future

Daloni Carlisle

The high achiever

Lynne Pearce

Centre of excellence

Clare Lomas

Kidney cancer

First-cousin marriages shown to put infants at major risk of congenital anomaly

No plausible evidence of harm to adolescent girls receiving qHPV vaccine

Psoriasis may increase chances of developing chronic kidney disease

Keep treating for substance misuse after liver transplant to reduce risk of relapse

After binge drinking, young people experience more severe hangovers than older drinkers

Living hand to mouth – how nurses deal with the reality of pay restraint

Sally Gillen

Political notebook

NMC in bid to overturn ‘lenient’ ruling against ex-Mid Staffs nurse

Kat Keogh

World in brief

College urges pay review body to back 1 per cent pay rise

Nurses give post-typhoon help to Philippines

News in brief

Age-simulating suit helping to improve care of older people

Panel will examine patient nutrition

Dementia-friendly virtual hospital design revealed

NICE to develop long-awaited guidance on safe staffing levels

Christian Duffin

‘UK has duty to stop brain drain from poorer nations’

Unfilled and deleted posts combine to create staffing crisis, says college

Jennifer Sprinks

Carter criticises ‘divisive’ flu jab funding restriction

Tributes paid to nurses killed in conflict

Employers fail to value support staff, HCAs say

Nurses make ends meet through extra shifts and payday loans

Sally Gillen

Pay-freeze proposal will cost government dear

Graham Scott