Student life - When no change is an option

Natasha Eccles, Kieran Cooper

‘We can make a vital impact’

Carol Davis

Care at the click of a button

Elizabeth Barley

Notice board

Doing your research

Mike Higgins

Unstable bradycardia

Sam Jeffrey

Writing a continuing professional development article for publication

Bob Price

Nurse-led management of contraceptive services

Emma Wilson

Meeting the needs of patients’ families in intensive care units

Rabia Khalaila

Tweets of the week

Proposed new code is a threat to nurses’ use of social media

Richard Underwood

Have fun but stay safe, and stay healthy by always using condoms

Genevieve Edwards

Our return to practice package offers funding and flexibility

Theresa Brennan

Patients hardest hit by district nursing recruitment crisis

Jeffrey Moore

To describe district nursing as endangered is too pessimistic

Crystal Oldman

Talk of cottage hospitals and moving more care to the community is absurd

Helen Evans

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

Margaret Paul

MedAfrica app

Bridget Ryan

The Essential Guide to Public Health and Health Promotion

Nicola Evans

Partnership Working in Public Health

Helen Sullivan

Open Society Foundations

Helena Soni

Starting out - Patients who harm themselves deserve compassion not blame

Liz Mason

Flu jab is best for mothers and midwives

Louise Silverton

Readers panel - A ban and its consequences

Jane Scullion, Scott Justice, Paul Jebb, Mark Pittman

Statin spoilers

David Newnham

Too old for this

Jane Bates

Global view of obesity

Katy Cooper

Voices - Viv Bennett wants a shift in culture towards practice that promotes health

Viv Bennett

Alcohol reduction starts here

Emma Dermody

School nurses take lead on FGM

Jennifer Trueland

Get fit – then help others too

Jennifer Trueland

Weight loss

Breast cancer survivors do not exercise enough, despite it aiding recovery

Rise in gestational diabetes and eclampsia found in women vaccinated during pregnancy

People with, or at risk of, knee osteoarthritis advised to take 6,000 steps a day

Trastuzumab extends survival in women with breast cancer but raises risk of heart failure

Brief interventions by nurses help to reduce alcohol consumption

Why nurses and managers are far from being ‘all in it together’

Kat Keogh

500 extra health visitors for Scotland

‘Free at the point of use’ congress debate despite Hunt’s reassurance

Kat Keogh

Should nurses have to ‘police’ smokers?

HIV patients failed by NHS

Comment - Nurses are a force for health, says chief nurse Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

‘Let’s talk about menopause at work’

News in brief

HCAs can play a key role in handover, congress hears

Hospital nurses told to do their bit to cut down on night-time noise

Kat Keogh

‘Use being overweight to show empathy’

RCN members urge college to campaign for a living wage

Ignore the value of nurses at your peril, warns Mid Staffs inquiry chair

Kat Keogh

Cost will not influence staffing guidelines, says NICE

‘I felt let down by the RCN when I blew the whistle’

Resolution is a positive step towards improving the prospects of BME staff

Three charged with falsifying patients’ notes at Bridgend hospital

‘Be political, stand together and fight for fairer pay,’ nurses urged

Alistair Kleebauer

Nurses have so much to bring to public health

Graham Scott

News digest June 25 2014

News digest June 26 2014

Nurses intensify protest over lack of pay rise

Nurses handling nearly half of patient complaints

News digest June 27 2014

Chancellor to consider commemorative £2 coin for nursing hero Edith Cavell

CQC places Morecambe Bay trust in special measures because of persistent ‘challenges’

News digest June 30 2014

New NMC registration rules for overseas nurses

Nursing Standard gave ‘significant’ coverage of Savile scandal, says Broadmoor report

News digest July 01 2014

Nurses take on Westminster in a bid to force a government U-turn on NHS pay

Exercise will not lead to lymphoedema in people with breast cancer, says NICE