Student life - Head start in hands-on caring

Erin Dean

The sharps end of the law

Debra Adams

Notice Board

Right skills in the right place

Stephanie Jones-Berry

‘It’s been life changing’

Olwyn Lidster

Promoting patient safety

Laura Kynaston

Understanding and interpreting nutrition information on food labels

Jane DeVille-Almond, Kate Halliwell

Fluid and electrolyte balance

Ella McLafferty, Carolyn Johnstone, Charles Hendry, Alistair Farley

Promoting health: making every contact count

Jennifer Percival

Tweets of the week

There is more to looking after patients than medical treatment

Lorrayne Saunders

Registration fee increases and confusion over filling in forms

Kathy Bullingham

A welcome partnership between high-achieving and failing trusts

Andrea Buckley

Integrate out-of-hours GPs with the ambulance service

George Stevenson

Ambulances queuing outside A&E are a waste of resources

Richard Lee

Overturning 1 per cent pay rise proves we are not ‘in it together’

Sheila Wilson

Going it alone means NHS in England is in danger of being the poor relation

Maria Hodal

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

Margaret Paul

Google Translate app

Shelagh Daly

Designing Interiors for People with Dementia - Fourth edition

Helen Sullivan

Please, Nurse! A Student Nurse in the 1950s

Steph Caldwell

ERA-EDTA

Gordon Barker

Portrayal of life as a nursing student is spot on

Irene Heywood Jones

Readers panel - Keeping an eye on the clock

Jane Brown, Stephanie Cumming, Craig Hopkins, Scott Justice

Starting out - Caring for a patient with dementia gave me a person-centred approach

Sue Grave

Ticklish situation

David Newnham

Tell me about it

Jane Bates

Try the military way

Chris Carter

Voices - Raising the NMC fee will help protect the public, says Mark Addison

Mark Addison

Helping fans to get fit

Jennifer Trueland

Seven-day challenge

Alison Moore

Statins and cardiovascular disease

Carers’ need for resources and support cannot be grouped by ethnicity or culture

Geographical inequalities in hip arthroplasty improved with greater NHS capacity

Mould in the home implicated in study of middle-age asthma and respiratory problems

Evidence on workplace smoking cessation schemes compared for effectiveness

Non-metastatic prostate cancer shows better outcomes with surgery

Overseas recruitment big business again as safe staffing recognised

Kat Keogh

Alliance says 1:8 staff ratio is about ‘whether a patient lives or dies’

World in brief

Political notebook

Patient-staff dialogue is vital

Unhealthy lifestyles adversely affect nurses’ ability to deliver quality care

Sally Gillen

Night time should be a quiet time

Lack of funds for specialist nurses ‘causing a crisis in diabetes care’

Kat Keogh

NICE clarifies advice on lymphoedema

News in brief

Dismissals over restraint of violent patient were unfair

Fears for NHS remuneration body following Hunt’s wages decision

GPs urged to give 1 per cent rise

Reaction to the NHS pay announcement on Nursing Standard’s Facebook page

HCAs in Scotland to earn more than those in England

Pay gloom adds to burden of staff already resorting to food banks

Kat Keogh

Comment - Misguided decision is unjust and disrespectful

Josie Irwin

‘Mr Hunt, you have repaid all our hard work with a slap in the face’

Sally Gillen

We will fight this mean political decision on pay

Graham Scott

Body clock research findings could help nurses adapt better to working shifts

News digest March 24 2014

News digest March 19 2014

Money lost to NHS fraud could pay for 300,000 nurses

News digest March 20 2014

Meningococcal B vaccination likely to be added to primary childhood programme

Learning lessons from military leadership

Jennifer Sprinks

News digest March 25 2014

Overseas nurse recruitment big business as NHS employers act on patient safety concerns

Kat Keogh

Employees caring for loved ones with dementia need more support at work

News digest March 21 2014

Carers and relatives needed to help care for older patients

Former NMC chair Judith Ellis steps down