Student life - Education through participation

Lesley Andrew

On the move

Notice board

Impetus for improvement

Christian Duffin

Consult the expert

Abigail Masterson

Blood glucose monitoring

Jackie Peck

Effective communication skills in nursing practice

Elaine Bramhall

Better documentation improves patient care

Patricia Kent, Karen Morrow

Professional issues associated with the clinical research nurse role

Juliet MacArthur, Gordon Hill, Deborah Callister

Tweets of the week

Nightingale March 1975 set to celebrate 40th anniversary

Sara (Gilly) Gilbart

Good hydration is as important for us as it is for our patients

Donato Tallo

A great deal of good work goes unrecognised in social care

Mike Padgham

Does the Nursing and Midwifery Council need four London bases?

Gwyn Morritt

Incentives for GPs to diagnose dementia gave wrong message

Helen Evans

Please show your support by signing my petition for fair pay in the NHS

Natalie Carter

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

Margaret Paul

NHS Do OD app

Helena Soni

The Body Keeps the Score – Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

Shelagh Daly

Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services – Fourth edition

John Adams

MyNHS

Roger Evans

Fundamental shift

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - An expert patient’s guidance boosted my clinical confidence

James Kerman

Ripple effect

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - The price of high-risk care

Drew Payne, Stephanie Cumming, Jane Scullion, Scott Justice

Hot ticket

David Newnham

Take a seat

Jane Bates

Tea and sympathy

Katy Hope, Jo Pope

Voices - The NMC is stronger and smarter, says outgoing chair Mark Addison

Mark Addison

Revival of confidence

Erin Dean

The road to change

Erin Dean

In vitro fertilisation

Surviving a childhood brain tumour could have negative impact on adult self-esteem

Black patients at higher risk of intensive medical procedures near end of life

Men with severe asthma more likely to achieve weight loss than women

Exposure to traffic pollution before birth could impair lung function

Police officers’ work found to raise risk of cardiac fatality

‘It is a shame more hasn’t been done to protect front line staff’

Alistair Kleebauer

NICE addresses the obesity epidemic

Nurses agree religion has a place in care

Alistair Kleebauer

World in brief

Staff raise awareness of pressure ulcer prevention

C. difficile report prompts review of infection control in Scotland’s NHS

Sally Gillen

News in brief

More children’s specialist epilepsy nurses needed

‘Use relatives to help feed patients’

‘Jobs would have been lost if I had listened to review body,’ claims Hunt

Pre-registration training review set to present case for radical overhaul

Katie Osborne

Third-party checks could block staff from NMC register

New streamlined version of the NMC code drawn up

Prepare now for revalidation or face the consequences, warns top nurse

CNO has vital role in delivering key points of Winterbourne View report

Alistair Kleebauer, Katie Osborne

It’s party time as patients hit the decks

Reforms to nurse training looking likely for 2015

Graham Scott

News digest December 08 2014

Complainants to NHS often met with defensive culture, says Care Quality Commission

Remain vigilant to Ebola, England’s chief nurse urges

Kat Keogh

News digest December 09 2014

Senior nurse appointed new dean of Scottish university nursing school

Maternal death rates falling

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest December 03 2014

News digest December 04 2014

Nurse director provides training in dementia awareness to PM and ministers

NMC warns of fee rise if forced to pay for its own regulator

Kat Keogh

News digest December 05 2014

RCN calls on members to record their overtime as part of pay campaign

Tuck patients in for a better night’s sleep, nurse urges

Katie Osborne