Student life - Hats off to further study

Katie Davis

Time to share good practice

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Notice Board

Learning in a virtual world

Daniel Allen

Laying the foundations

Jane Redfern Jones

Respiratory infection

Patience Fordjour

Ankylosing spondylitis: diagnosis and management

Deborah Bond

Advanced clinical practitioner role in the emergency department

Helen Fawdon, John Adams

Providing nursing care and support to individuals and families with genetic/genomic healthcare needs

Maggie Kirk, Martine Marshallsay

Tweets of the week

Clarification on neuromuscular conditions in careers article

Catherine Parry

Bursaries to help with learning and development opportunities

Georgina Sayers

Join in the celebrations to mark the centenary of cavell’s death

Victoria Law

Patients need advice about the kinds of support available

Chris Ball

A positive counselling style can make a difference to patients

Donato Tallo

Flexible education programmes will secure profession’s future

Tom Bolger

As a former addict, I am treated like a pariah by my colleagues

We must put an end to the human and financial costs of PFI projects

Jan Savage

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

Margaret Paul

Junqueira’s Basic Histology Text and Atlas – 13th edition

Simon McGurk

The Nurse’s Survival Guide – A Simple ABC

Bridget Ryan

ERIC

Janet Snell

Our books of the year

A private joy

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Breaking out of isolation

Jane Scullion, Bríd Hehir, Linda Drake, Edwin Chamanga

Starting out - Finding the time for older patients is the best present we can give them

Grant Byrne

Pressure cooker

David Newnham

Ties that bound

Jane Bates

All in the festive spirit

Peter Sykes

Voices - Don’t be modest, get your nurse award nominations in, writes Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Fast and effective?

Jennifer Trueland

Leaner and Smarter

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Surgical site infection

Hormone levels may explain some health differences between the US and China

Exercise can have benefits for older people with dementia and their carers

Improved treatments halve disability and distress in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Post-operative symptom patterns indicate mortality rate for oesophageal cancer

Medicines containing sodium linked to raised risk of heart attack

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

Stephen Wright

2013: a year of nursing odes, ratios, close scrutiny and Robert Francis

Sarah Harrison

Political notebook

Tenth nurse from scandal hit care home to go before NMC

World in brief

Experience and resilience to the fore in drama about profession

Sally Gillen

Staff make a song and dance over having flu jabs

Gold standard in the plaster room

Healthcare guidance calls for more nurse involvement in coma care

Christian Duffin

News in brief

New late-night shifts are on the cards for district staff

‘Operation onion’ helps ward safety

Death rate at mid Staffs suggests improvements in care

Training for all more effective than champions, say dementia experts

Health ombudsman calls for midwifery supervision review

CQC will carry out new-style visits in April

Pupils rally to prepare donations for families in the Philippines

£100 million technology fund now open for applications

Beware of patients bearing gifts, counsels leading law academic

Kat Keogh

The ideal gift? A fairer deal for all in 2014

Graham Scott