Student life - Tapping into technology

Beverley Brathwaite, Asanka Dayananda

On the move

Notice board

Working out where it hurts

Jenny Knight

Exercise for the Brain

Jane Redfern Jones

Portal hypertension

Maro Whitehead

Intravenous therapy in older patients

Lisa Dougherty

Antimicrobial stewardship: the role of the nurse

David Ladenheim, Denise Rosembert, Carole Hallam, Christianne Micallef

Introducing intentional rounding: a pilot project

Jan Dewing, Brenda Lynes O’Meara

Tweets of the week

Correction

Private health insurer ordered to stop misleading marketing

Paula Duckworth

What motivated supermarket giants to mock mental illness?

Simon Nielson

Vegetarians need more choice of vaccines and medications

Liz O’Neill

Embrace new technology, but first acknowledge its effect

Sharon Zantuck

Let’s make it easier for patients to identify nurses

Vanessa Martin

NHS England is a strange creature – a conjoined body with two heads

Helen Evans

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

Margaret Paul

Five Ways to Wellbeing app

Gemma Finnegan

Nursing and Health: Record Keeping – Survival Guide

Grant Byrne

Law and Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare – An Introduction

Marc Cornock

www.icn.ucl.ac.uk

Kerri Wright

Starting out - Lectures taught me how a nurse’s ‘gut instinct’ can be a vital tool

Caroline Estrella

Reappraisal of nurse education must be fair

Rebecca Harper

Readers panel - Is honesty always the best policy?

Linda Drake, Grant Byrne, Beverley Brathwaite, Jane Scullion

Basket cases only

David Newnham

Sole sister

Jane Bates

Fair play does pay

Stephen Wright

Voices - Nurses are vital in helping to prevent a flu epidemic, says Viv Bennett

Viv Bennett

Making time to care

Claire Laurent

Joined-up thinking

Jennifer Trueland

Award highlighted our specialty

Lynne Pearce

A nursing alternative to prison

Erin Dean

Familial hypercholesterolaemia

Data on intimate partner murders prompt call for risk reduction strategies

Research studies on older people’s health lack input about care home residents

Gender and genetic make-up key factors in spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C

Healthy obese women have better than expected pregnancies

Study reveals healthcare staff’s negative attitudes towards obese patients they treat

Work-life imbalance and the pressures that are making nurses sick

Jennifer Sprinks

Political notebook

Seven-day GP service would require significant extra funding

World in brief

Tories hear from winning nurse

UK governments use ‘intimidation tactics’ to curb pay rises for nurses

Kat Keogh

Employers embark on occupational dermatitis trial

‘Food and drink should be put on a par with medicine in hospitals’

Kat Keogh

Setting standards for acute care HCAs

News in brief

Proliferation of small forms is adding up to ‘massive burden’

Twins Sam and Becky will go their separate ways after double graduation ceremony

Court ruling reveals the NMC has been acting outside of its powers

Sally Gillen

RCN members to vote on change in how subscriptions are set

New senior nurse posts key in fight against infection

Nurse leaders need greater support transferring from practice to academia

Older nurses fearful of physical toll as later retirement age looms

Kat Keogh

Ministers should keep out of the pay review process

Graham Scott