Legal advice

Richard Griffith

Addressing dehydration

Robin Lewis

Going the extra mile for patients

Carol Davis

Being washed by someone is therapeutic... and a treat

Florence Winterflood

It is just a matter of application

Richard Griffin

A course that allows me to fulfil my dream of nursing

Nana Sarpong Aning-Baning

The memory services team

Jenny Knight

News update

Courses & resources

Well trained in understanding

Student life - A template for good care

Sophie Radcliffe

Course resource

New enticements to return to nursing

Theresa Brennan

Notice board

Carers need care too

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Statins

Anita Skinner

Psychological interventions in obsessive compulsive disorder

Judith Gellatly, Christine Molloy

A parent information leaflet to promote mental health in children

Carla McClintock, Bernie Reid, Jackie Wade

End of life care services for patients with heart failure

Louise A Charnock

Tweets of the week

Seacole Statue Appeal reaches another important milestone

Joan Saddler

A renationalised health service would drive down supply costs

Karen Chilver

Help for overseas nurses unable to obtain supervised placements

Jean Rogers

The NMC is taking too long to process overseas applications

Debbie Knight

Fill in our survey to help foster a culture of health and fitness

Brian Power

If hospital nurses are to lose weight, the NHS needs to provide more food

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

NICE Guidance app

Roger Evans

Accelerate Your Career in Nursing – A Guide to Professional Advancement and Recognition

Irene Mabbott

Nursing Law and Ethics – Fourth edition

Marc Cornock

RCN Library and Heritage Services

John Adams

Starting out - Mentor and colleagues showed me the rewards of community nursing

Callum Metcalfe

Stop blaming GPs and employ more nurses

Kevin Crimmons

Readers panel - Online and off the record

Paul Jebb, Rebecca Harper, Grant Byrne, Emma Vincent

Being sensitive

Paul Hodgkin

A child’s worry

Jane Bates

Shape up nicely

Gerry Jayamanne

Voices - The NHS will have to meet new equality standards, writes Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

From NHS to army – and back again

Alison Moore

Loosening the belt on weight loss procedures

Erin Dean

Bariatric surgery

Early start to drinking is leading to public health problem for men in India

Supermarket cheeses within guidelines for salt content need stricter targets

Drugs used by shift workers to remedy sleep problems show little benefit

BCG vaccine can protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Prison smoking ban has positive effect on health of inmates

Meet Jon Billings, the man charged with modernising the NMC’s image

NSPCC tests staff values at mental health trust

Christian Duffin

Audit uncovers weak skill mix

World in brief

News in brief

Yacker trackers could help keep noise down on wards

Medication review saves nurses’ time

All hospitals need IV therapy lead to reduce incidents, advises NICE

Christian Duffin

As you were in first world war nursing

Nurses walk in Solidarity for dementia care

Unions considering joint action in the autumn over pay award

Christian Duffin

Draft code is ‘patronising’ and too long, says RCN

College lobbies to keep NHS out of EU-US trade deal

NMC offers nurses instalment option on paying annual registration fees

Daredevil Maddy’s world record attempt

RCN head of policy says costs of nurse training pilot are prohibitive

Christian Duffin

We need to help nurses practise what they preach

Graham Scott

News digest August 20 2014

News digest August 21 2014

Review of patient form ordered over ‘do not resuscitate’ question

Families found in shipping container at Port of Tilbury trigger hospital’s major incident plan

News digest August 22 2014

Union slams ‘extortionate’ car parking charges for nurses

Declare night-time patient discharges from hospital publicly, RCN Scotland director tells health boards

News digest August 26 2014

RCN sets out nursing role in reducing antibiotic resistance

British nurse with ebola is praised by the RCN