Student life - Nailing hand hygiene

Dinah Gould

Notice Board

Amina Ali is chief academic officer at the College of Health Sciences in Zanzibar, east Africa.

Global brainstorming session

More than just a job

Jane Redfern Jones

Bone health

Abby Morrow

Shoulder pain: pathogenesis, diagnosis and management

Jennie Walker

Preventing psychological distress in patients with acne

Tracy Mooney

Service user involvement in nurse education

Penny Tremayne, Pip Russell, Helen Allman

Katherine Rafalko1922-2013

Roger Evans

Tess Hall-Patch1924-2013

Cynthia Atwell

Tweets of the week

Information on the leading cause of congenital deafblindness

Peter Miller

Good inhaler technique is key to improving child asthma care

Caroline Whyte

The restructuring that has led to the loss of 4,000 nursing jobs

Karen Chilver

Many factors influence our ability to be compassionate

Stephen Wright

Inappropriate apologies have an effect on nurses and patients

Ros McManus

Patients with obesity need to be respected, not ridiculed

Bridget Ryan

Who gave the Lancet a nudge to sponsor such a strange body?

Tony Butterworth

I welcome a commission to look at our tarnished image

Mary Sturtevant

Why does nursing have to rely on doctors to direct us to the right path?

Clare Warnock

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

Margaret Paul

Mendeley app

Daniel Wolstenholme

Caring and Killing – Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931-1943

Gosia Brykczyńska

Clinical Examination – Fourth edition

Simon McGurk

NHS Change Day

Garry McGurk

So far, so good

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Promoting responsible drinking

Mark Pittman, Emma Vincent, Jane Brown, Craig Hopkins

Starting out - An accident with a syringe taught me to take a series of precautions

Callum Metcalfe

Wake up call

David Newnham

Sensitive words

Jane Bates

Downscaling our fear

Stephen Wright

Voices - Be sure to have your say on the process of revalidation, urges Mark Addison

Mark Addison

Help to ease the pain

Susan Mayor

Pictures of health

Julie Sheen

Investing in wellbeing

Alison Handley

Diabetes

Cognitive behaviour therapy a useful addition to migraine treatment for young people

Trained nurses can give effective algorithm-based care for bowel injury

Dextrose gel is a first-line option for newborns at risk from hypoglycaemia

Diabetes patients benefit from antiviral treatment for hepatitis C infection

Consider socioeconomic factors behind dementia and cognitive health

Survey shows BME nurses are more likely to face disciplinary hearings

Jennifer Sprinks

Political notebook

Nursing groups call for action to avoid a ‘cycle of boom and bust’

World in brief

Royal seal of approval for hospital’s training

Vision of BME nurse leaders ‘from wards to boards’ still long way off

Jennifer Sprinks

Guidance on restraint updated in bid to prevent further scandals

Kat Keogh

Instant health advice for teenagers via text message

News in brief

Antispsychotics: ‘last option’ for people with autism

Night shifts lead to DNA damage

‘Changed’ cancer treatment dates referred to police

Poor record-keeping means NHS is wasting millions overpaying staff

Kat Keogh

Mid Staffs whistleblower slams use of gagging payments

Independent sector chain embraces 6Cs

Lecturers stage walkout over 1% pay increase

Nurse’s code of conduct for HCAs helps to clarify their role

Workforce audit acknowledges an imminent crisis in nurse numbers

Sally Gillen

BME inequality is real, and it’s time to fight it

Graham Scott

News digest January 29 2014

Former Mid Staffs chief nurse struck off NMC register

Kat Keogh

News digest January 30 2014

Offenders with learning disabilities ‘not supported’

Kat Keogh

BME nurses more likely to face disciplinary hearings

Jennifer Sprinks

News digest January 31 2014

Welsh Government commissions nurse-led review into complaints and high death rates

Jennifer Sprinks

MPs criticise scale of midwife shortage in England

Sally Gillen

News digest February 3 2014

Mental health nurses join forces with police for street triage scheme

Regulator announces urgent midwifery review

News digest February 4 2014

RAF locum nurse struck off for inappropriate prescribing

Spotlight on student nursing in new TV series