Student life - Searching for the evidence

Paul Galdas

On the move

Notice board

‘Navy assignments test me to the limit’

Karen McCullough

Growth opportunity

Frances Pickersgill

Blood glucose monitoring

Sarah Davey

Rabies: prevention strategies for overseas travellers

Jacqueline Pye

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: review of effectiveness

Mark Johnson

Communicating with older ethnic minority patients

Gloria Likupe

Tweets of the week

The NHS displays absurd double standards on circumcision

Christine Clark

Forget the cultural niceties, we need to see FGM as child abuse

Catherine Marsh

We need a career ladder that joins academia to hands-on nursing care

Val Douglas

Recruiting the right people is key to avoiding care home cruelty

Marie Rowe

Directors need vision to combine academic and clinical roles

Bridie Kent

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

Margaret Paul

OvuView: Ovulation and Fertility app

Helena Soni

How to Get Through Revalidation – Making the Process Easy

Steph Caldwell

The Physical Care of People with Mental Health Problems – A Guide for Best Practice

Shelagh Daly

Headway

Bridget Ryan

If Scotland goes its own way

James Buchan

Medicines Management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out – Advocating for our friend drew on knowledge from my nurse training

Helen Price

Electoral role

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Time to enforce staff ratios

Rebecca Harper, Paul Jebb, Jane Brown, Jane Scullion

Sit this one out

David Newnham

Painful truth

Jane Bates

Think positive

Stephen Wright

Voices - Help us to keep the Code vital to all that nurses do, urges Mark Addison

Mark Addison

The challenge of going smoke-free

Jennifer Trueland

Matter of life or death

Jennifer Trueland

Infertility

Frequent consumption of snacks is worse for the liver than large, regular meals

Patient survival boosted by early dose of epinephrine after non-shockable cardiac arrest

People in rich and poor areas have same risk of cancer but develop different types

Those most likely to contract shingles are excluded from NHS vaccination programme

‘Nostalgic’ newspaper articles put nursing education in bad light

‘The new system will differ from PREP – it will be fit for purpose’

Jennifer Sprinks

Political notebook

World in brief

Staffing data will include agency nurses so permanent shortages will be masked

NHS should back local hospitals, says new chief executive

Chief nurse urges trusts to fill vacancies with permanent staff

Alistair Kleebauer

Screening for genetic cholesterol risk begins

Nutritional care guides aim to combat risk of malnourishment

Kat Keogh

News in brief

Prison term for nurse who exposed child to HIV risk

Call for training to fight obesity

Bus stop mural a hit with patients and staff

Lack of hospital handover is making our jobs harder, say district nurses

Katie Osborne

Work-based degree for older people specialists

What if? campaign launched to fight for fair pay

Private healthcare provider to pilot apprenticeship as a way into nursing

Children’s author helps Seacole appeal

Nurses demand significant changes to revised NMC code of conduct

Katie Osborne

Ministers need to heed nurses’ message on pay

Graham Scott

News digest June 04 2014

News digest June 05 2014

Nurses in England unite for day of action over rejected pay deal

Do not wait until your registration renewal date to prepare for revalidation, NMC urges nurses and midwives

News digest June 06 2014

Three more babies have blood poisoning from suspect batches of liquid food

NHS nurses lead England-wide day of action in protest over pay

News digest June 09 2014

NHS publishes online guide to its health check programme

Trust offering £350 incentive in nurse recruitment drive

News digest June 10 2014

NHS England endorses algorithm to identify acute kidney injury