Student life - When two worlds connect

Theresa Nash

On the move

Notice board

A century on, their legacy remains

Frances Pickersgill

Get ready to impress

Elaine Cole

Ascites

Abby Morrow-Barnes

Economic evaluation of interventions in health care

Agi McFarland

The role of effective communication in achieving informed consent for clinical trials

Andrew Pick, Kayleigh Gilbert, James McCaul

Improving staff selection processes

Marie Cerinus, Marina Shannon

Tweets of the week

With NMC delays, the best way to respond is to make a complaint

Naomi Lyth

Helping a polish nurse frustrated by delays in her NMC registration

Helen Evans

We do not need managers to tell us where the problems lie

Marie J Rowe

Support the Welsh members’ bill on safe nurse staffing levels

Susan Osborne

Thank you for the tribute to our good friend Ray Rowden

Michael Lee, Patricia Lee

Wearing gloves means that we lose out on skin-to-skin contact

Michelle Biggins

‘Use us or lose us,’ say the RCN’s retired accredited representatives

Christine Clark

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

Margaret Paul

Resus Algorithms app

Valerie McGurk

The Dark Side of Nursing

Shelagh Daly

The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice – Third edition

Helena Soni

Médecins Sans Frontières

Roger Evans

An outdated model

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - I learned how to care for patients and their relatives at the end of life

Michelle Harrison

Remembering those who gave their lives

Major Elizabeth Kagoda

Readers panel - Quick fix for alcohol misuse

Jane Scullion, Craig Hopkins, Linda Drake, Beverley Brathwaite

Driven insane

David Newnham

Remember them

Jane Bates

Questions of consent

Marc Cornock

Voices - Personal experience is a powerful engine for change, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

Championing the child health cause

Judith Ellis

ADHD assessment tool unlocks the truth

Elaine Cole

My grandmother and a nursing hero

Clare Lomas

Antibiotic resistance

COPD exacerbations more severe in smokers of menthol cigarettes

Most nurses are responsible Facebook users but a minority share compromising material

Profiling of young carers could lead to better support from health professionals

Familial factors in pancreatic cancer could enable earlier detection of the disease

Undue caution puts siblings of children with allergy at risk

Night-shift staff are more likely to struggle to remain a healthy weight

Alistair Kleebauer

Patients being denied wish to die at home

MPs call for boost in mental health resources to meet military’s needs

Alistair Kleebauer

World in brief

Political notebook

Poor communication causing hundreds of unsafe discharges

News in brief

Nurse-led cancer clinic saves money and pleases patients

Computer glitch is a ‘blow to morale’

False alarms give hospital staff practice in managing Ebola care

Katie Osborne

Young carers take their message to the top of the NHS

Midwives in Guernsey suspended amid conduct concerns

Second pay strike set to be bigger as further action adds to pressure

Alistair Kleebauer, Kat Keogh

Supply of nurses ‘is like relying on payday loans’

RCN asks public to sign its petition for safe staffing

Most staff at care homes would back having cameras in residents’ rooms

Regulators to encourage a more transparent health service

Hundreds of hospitals in England fail to reach safe staffing levels

Kat Keogh

Our troops and veterans deserve first-class care

Graham Scott

Scottish Government will review student bursaries

News digest November 11 2014

Staff nurse wins award for dementia training programme

Nurses at Wigan hospital praised for enabling dying patient to say goodbye to her horse

Katie Osborne

News digest November 05 2014

News digest November 06 2014

RCN elects new president and deputy president

Katie Osborne

Guidelines on preventing falls out for consultation

Kat Keogh

News digest November 07 2014

Nurses told to harness the power of social media

Kat Keogh

NHS pay strike in Wales suspended after new offer from government

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest November 10 2014

Welsh nurses’ strike called off after improved pay deal