Student life - Be sociable, but be careful

Kathy Oxtoby

Calculate the risk and reward

Nicola Davies

Notice board

Find the evidence, make it work

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Partners in learning

Catharine Sadler

Chest drainage

Chris Carter

Breaking bad news: issues relating to nursing practice

Clare Warnock

Effect of climate change and resource scarcity on health care

Janet Richardson, Jane Grose, Bethany Jackson, Jamie-Lee Gill, Hannah Becky Sadeghian, Johannes Hertel, Janet Kelsey

Using abdominal massage in bowel management

Michelle Connor, Catherine Hunt, Alison Lindley, John Adams

Patrick Casey1958-2013

Isabel White

Tony Haughey1935-2013

Martin Bradley

Tweets of the week

Role of nurse in giving detailed rabies vaccination advice is key

Viroj Wiwanitkit

Compassion for ourselves is to accept ‘I am doing the best I can’

Train nurses to be part of a suicide prevention strategy

Malcolm Rae

Concern over ways that insurers use personal health information

Naomi Lyth

More nurses are needed to deal with a ‘national scandal’

Obi Amadi

I was inspired to start exercising and am already feeling the benefits

Margaret Arthur

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

Margaret Paul

Stop, Breathe & Think app

Natalie Shaw

Aromatherapy – A Step-By-Step Guide for Women

Shelagh Daly,

Tropical Medicine: Lecture Notes – Seventh edition

Helena Soni

Altogether Better

Steph Caldwell

Starting out - I am glad I stood up for my patient and reported a colleague’s abuse

We must stop this waste of unused drugs

Ruth Cameron

Readers panel - Good policy or patronisation

Rebecca Harper, Grant Byrne, Drew Payne, Linda Drake

The big picture

David Newnham

A class act

Jane Bates

The case for clarity

Sarah Knowles

Voices - Crystal Oldman shares some home truths on the need for district nurses

Crystal Oldman

Training led by technology

Daniel Allen

Is there still such a thing as a UK NHS?

Claire Reed

Get out of the office and on to the ward

Kat Keogh

Rheumatoid arthritis and fatigue

Nurses’ informal caring of relatives has a negative effect on their own health

Inviting women to have breast screening lowers cancer risk and mortality

Mothers who adopt a child and become depressed may benefit from talking to nurses

Number of women in England who smoke while pregnant continues to decrease

Low vitamin D levels can increase risk of death from all causes

‘Key to improving patient safety is safe staffing, not safety videos’

Political notebook

Latest GP survey shows patients have faith in their practice nurse

World in brief

Network launch for defence nursing

RCN medical negligence insurance now only applies to self-employed

Katie Osborne

Initiative aims to prevent second fractures

Push to tackle obesity means signs of patient malnutrition are missed

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Report recommends new ‘customer care programme’

Reorganise cancer care says top nurse

NHS has a duty to look after employees’ health

‘We need to work together to create a culture of health’ says PHE director

Katie Osborne

Nurses should be empowered to challenge doctors who overprescribe

Petition to make hospital parking free for NHS staff

Investment is crucial to strengthen the nursing workforce, says health minister

Wartime nursing hero Edith Cavell to be honoured on a £5 commemorative coin

Tribunal told that whistleblowing nurse’s claims ‘are without merit’

Kat Keogh

Key caring resources are just a click away

Graham Scott

News digest July 09 2014

News digest July 10 2014

NHS nurses in Wales denied 1 per cent pay rise and offered one-off payment instead

News digest July 11 2014

New chair of RCN congress elected

£2.5m funding boost for Hampshire school nursing service

News digest July 14 2014

Better care provision needed for the dying, says RCN

Healthy changes could cut dementia risk, NICE says

News digest July 15 2014

NICE launch safe nurse staffing

Rise in stress-related absence among nurses