Student life - Bridging the theoretical gap

Claire O’Gorman

I needed a new challenge. This is perfect

Ruth Hall

Notice Board

What makes you so specialist?

Daniel Allen

Setting the standard

Anne Close

Psychosis

Gerard Bligh

Varicella zoster virus: chickenpox and shingles

Dinah Gould

Nervous system: part 3

Alistair Farley, Ella McLafferty, Carolyn Johnstone, Charles Hendry

Managing Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients

Andrea Denton, Annie Topping, Paul Humphreys

Mary Kelley1926-2014Nurse and midwife who sailed the world on a cruise liner, but always returned to her home county, Somerset

John Adams

Norma Urscheler1943-2014Filipina nurse who worked with pioneering heart transplant surgeons

Roger Evans

Tweets of the week

Anxiety, particularly in young women, needs to be addressed

‘Normal’ anxiety is being treated as a chronic medical condition

Helen Jones

What could go wrong that the NMC needs so much in reserves?

Jo Nelson

Loss of NHS direct will pile more pressure on health services

Sonia Knight

Sign the e-petition and respond to the RCN consultation on pay

Rav Kennedy

MPs and nurses both serve the public – so pay them the same

Theresa Brennan

If we do not stand up for ourselves, how can we battle for our patients?

Zeba Arif

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

Margaret Paul

Omnio for iPad app

Lesley Dee

The Good Heart – 101 Ways to Live a Positively Long, Happy Life

Helena Soni

Putting Patients First: The Duty of Care – Practical Guidance for Healthcare Staff

Bridget Ryan

medConfidential

Garry McGurk

Greater autonomy means better workers

Ruth Cameron

Readers panel - Practise what you preach

Emma Vincent, Craig Hopkins, Daniel Athey, Beverley Brathwaite

Starting out - A request to cremate an amputated limb raised issue of spiritual care

Pennie Rudd

No escape

David Newnham

Let me eat cake

Jane Bates

Striving for fairness

Suzie Frew

Voices - Open access to GP records empowers patients, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

The dark side of night shifts

Christian Duffin

Added values

Jennifer Trueland

Care homes: managing medicines

Diet and exercise succeeds in reducing weight in those with a higher risk of cancer

New DNA sequencing poses challenges and opportunities for breast cancer units

Transplant community ‘could teach HIV community’ about immunosuppressant therapies

Unique antidepressant with equal efficacy to other drugs offers low-risk alternative

Men could be deterred from nursing career by television stereotypes

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

Stephen Wright

Nurse training places creeping up after dire warnings of shortages

Sally Gillen

World in brief

Nursing Standard is digital-only next week

Slow discharge process a bugbear for patients

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Updated guidance will help clinicians detect child abuse

Visualisation eases procedural pain

Lexi’s ‘outstanding’ design is a winner

Increase in nurse numbers linked to better patient survival rates in ICU

Christian Duffin

Snapshot of first world war nursing

Study shows no progress in past decade for BME nursing directors

Sally Gillen

RCN jobs fair draws keen students

Boost in UK children’s nurse training places is biggest in Scotland

Mary Seacole statue funding target is in sight

Nurses say patients still neglected because of inadequate staff levels

Kat Keogh

Nurses’ voices amplify reality of staff shortages

Graham Scott

News digest April 16 2014

News digest April 17 2014

News digest April 22 2014

More than 1,000 avoidable deaths each month caused by poor kidney care and dehydration

Christian Duffin