Student life - Exposure to research work

Mary Harrison

Working in Australia

Christin Bird

Masterclass in mental health

Stephanie Jones Berry

Notice board

A lasting impression

Jane Redfern Jones

Lung cancer

Naomi Forsyth

Diagnosis and management of patients with pleural effusions

Rebecca Myatt

Experience of nursing students with dyslexia on clinical placement

Christopher McPheat

Self-screening for sexually transmitted infections

Yvonne Potter

Tweets of the week

Scare stories about Muslim nurses incite hostility towards Islam

Zeba Arif

It’s our duty to go the extra mile for patients who are vulnerable

Sally Harding

Technology to the rescue for language translation

Helen Evans

Fund returners to practice and the staffing crisis will be solved

Victoria Roebuck

Taking a nursing degree is the best route into the profession for HCAs

Bekki Lloyd

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

Margaret Paul

Expereal

Helen Soni

Take Care, Son – The Story of My Dad and His Dementia

Bridget Ryan

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach – Fifth edition

Lesley Dee

State of Mind

Shelagh Daly

Starting out - My experience of depression helped me support my patient through it

Alex Short

The battle for HIV education is far from over

Jason Warriner

Readers panel - Life-saving interventions

Grant Byrne, Dave King, Beverley Brathwaite, Stephanie Cumming

Flawless is a flaw

David Newnham

Chaos theory

Jane Bates

Kindness does cost

Alison Leary

Voices - Health staff should be role models for tolerance, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Code spells out the core duties of care

Defence nursing: a force for good care

Spotlight on the RCN’s professional activity

Janet Davies

Constipation in children

Placebo surgical trials a useful tool for questioning continued use of ineffective treatments

Prostate cancer risk is slightly reduced in men circumcised after the age of 35 years

Early palliation can improve patients’ quality of life and enhance their view of care

Searching for and eradicating H pylori infection may lower gastric cancer rates in adults

Participation in team games helps offenders avoid heavy drinking

My message to emergency staff: I know you’re feeling the strain

Alistair Kleebauer

A future nurse of the year?

NMC fees increase moves closer after ministers fail to change law

Sally Gillen, Alistair Kleebauer

Political notebook

World in brief

RCN activists prepare to shape policy as they head to Liverpool

Call for diabetes screening to be standard in every care home

Sally Gillen

Art imitates life in a patient’s tale

‘Staff need to boost mums’ body image’

News in brief

Breast cancer pledge helps to improve services

A day of remembrance for D-Day sister

Nurses feel ‘impotent, alone and unheard’, whistleblower tells NHS

Katie Osborne

Lifelong learning investment plan to retain workers

Performance pay guidance issued by employer body

NMC appeals for views of mental health and learning disability registrants

Protesters take to the streets in call for reversal of pay freeze ‘insult’

Sally Gillen, Katie Osborne

Political inaction brings spectre of spiralling fees

Graham Scott

News digest June 16 2014

RCN general secretary warns that nurses’ shock at refusal to award 1 per cent pay rise has turned to anger

RCN congress day 1

News digest June 17 2014

Strike action would ‘leave patients in the lurch’, warns RCN general secretary

RCN congress day 2

News digest June 11 2014

News digest June 12 2014

NHS staff found guilty of wilfully neglecting patients could face prison

My message to emergency staff: I know you’re feeling the strain – chief nurse

News digest June 13 2014

Ombudsman finds Bedfordshire authorities failed mentally ill man

NICE publishes draft guidance on preventing winter deaths and illnesses