Student life - Inspired improvements

Angela Williams

Employment tribunals in action

Daniel Allen

Notice board

Job satisfaction guaranteed

Angela Chan

Move up by moving over

Mike Higgins

Depression

Lisa Scott

Oral cancer: risk factors, treatment and nursing care

Mark Foulkes

Hospice transfer for patients at the end of life: part 1

Michael Philip Tapley, Loren Pilling, David Jolley, Ann Marie Daniels, Bashir El-Mahmoudi

Introduction to genetics and genomics:a revised framework for nurses

Maggie Kirk

Tweets of the week

Caring responsibilities deserve funding and social recognition

Benny Goodman

It saddens me that race seems to have dropped off the agenda

Christine Clark

Spiritual care is something that goes beyond religion

Liz Docker

Help me research Edith Cavell, who saved a relative of mine

Robert Tunmore

Let commissioning find its feet before we have more changes

Anthony Wells

Saturdays did not work for dentists, so how will GPs fare?

Adrian Broad

I am keen to get back into nursing, but fear for the future of the profession

Victoria Roebuck

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

Margaret Paul

NHS Symptom Checker app

Helen Sullivan

Nursing Ethics in Everyday Practice

Marc Cornock

Understanding and Interpreting Educational Research

Nana Theodorou

National Numeracy

Kerri Wright

Starting out - Inpatients with dementia showed me how much we need to improve care

Lauren Owen

Reason for rage

Zeba Arif

Readers panel- Intervention at an early age

Craig Hopkins, Beverley Brathwaite, Dave King, Emma Vincent

Trial and error

David Newnham

On deaf ears

Jane Bates

The enemy within

Alison Leary

Voices - Going ‘back to the floor’ reinforced Yvonne Coghill’s pride in her profession

Yvonne Coghill

An end to isolation

Daloni Carlisle

Review rouses staff to strive for better care

Alison Moore

Global outreach service

Lynne Pearce

Sepsis

Benefits of bisphosphonates outweigh risks, despite links to atypical femural fractures

Unemployment levels after the global financial crisis linked to increase in suicides

Adalimumab keeps bowel disease in remission aft er up to four years of treatment

Men at greater risk of almost all post-operative complications than women

Exercise is an effective treatment for lower limb osteoarthritis

Wright Angle - Stephen Wright’s monthly take on nursing in the news

Stephen Wright

Is safety being jeopardised by fewer community staff and rising caseloads?

Jennifer Sprinks

Appeal for return of stolen badge

New inspection regime to look at compassion of care home staff

Jennifer Sprinks, Sally Gillen

World in brief

Political notebook

Institute strives to increase the number of BME Queen’s nurses

NICE aims to help staff broach the subject of obesity with patients

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Nurse’s hep C test yields speedy results

News in brief

Pension rights retained for transferred NHS workers

NMC report reveals fall in FtP referrals

Brown is ready to tackle the big issues

Membership fee set to increase by 1% as vote is passed to set rate for five years

Revalidation is a ‘nightmare’ for some nurses

Outsourcing is compromising quality, says Peter Carter

Staff are being ‘taken for a ride’ over pay, claims RCN president

Sally Gillen

Prince does the honours for leading nurses

Consultants need more support to halt decline in numbers, says RCN

Jennifer Sprinks

It would be a shame if this career option is lost

Graham Scott