Student life - Acting out scenarios

Caroline Adam, Winifred McGarry

Broadening horizons

Notice board

‘A whole world of opportunity’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Leading by example

Carol Davis

Suicidal intent

Balvinder Thiara

Advance care planning in progressive neurological conditions

Anna Kent

Cataract management: effect on patients’ quality of life

Susan Watkinson, Ramesh Seewoodhary

Values-based recruitment in health care

Sam Louise Miller

Win: Mentorship in Healthcare

Tweets of the week

Are nurses from the European Union able to get hospital jobs?

Agnieszka Wroblewska

Children are being let down by their mental health provision

Michael Owen

Chocolates are particularly welcome on the wards in A&E

Lee Moore

Everyone is working together to ease the pressures in A&E

Mark Kimber

Helping patients struggling to pay their prescription charges

Christine Clark

Ward rounds are an essential component of good basic care

Joan Smith

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

Margaret Paul

Ebola Tracker app

Roger Evans

Oxford Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension

Susan Watkins

Nurses! Test Yourself in Pathophysiology

Valerie McGurk

The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation

Christian Duffin

Strictly come therapy

Paul Hodgkin

Clarifying consent

Marc Cornock

Starting out - Experience in another country was test of skills and character

Lena Dalton

Something to look forward to each week

Roy Lilley

Readers panel - A position with big demands

Stephanie Cumming, Edwin Chamanga, Emma Vincent, Mark Pittman

Going viral

David Newnham

False alarm

Jane Bates

Remote possibilities

Mike Jackson

Voices - Staffing crisis warrants a major incident ‘reboot’, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Stepping outside your comfort zone

Iain Atherton, Richard Kyle

Bringing back the sparkle

Lynne Pearce

How to spot a nurse killer

Erin Dean

Cancer diagnosis

Urgent need to fill evidence gaps in care of those with female genital mutilation

Promoting walking to older people is ‘useful’, but won’t reduce incidence of falls

Cancer survivors say unmet needs related to treatment remain unresolved years later

Less invasive approach to bladder cancer has similar survival rates to open surgery

E-cigarettes can help smokers to safely cut down or quit

DH sets sights on unsocial hours pay in drive for seven-day service

Alistair Kleebauer

NMC denies prioritising new FtP cases to meet government target

Katie Osborne

Celebrating nursing through the ages

Political notebook

World in brief

House of Lords rejects attempts to amend Assisted Dying Bill

Charity provides nurse support to thyroid cancer patients

NHS Employers support unsocial hours pay, but want reduced rates

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

NHS managers must keep spending to prevent HCAIs

Night response team cuts A&E admissions

Hugh puts storytelling centre stage

Minimum staffing ratios would help tempt ex-nurses back, says Lib Dem

Alistair Kleebauer

Labour would recruit carers for nurse training

Union warns of EU trade deal’s threat to the NHS

Union warns of EU trade deal’s threat to the NHS

‘Golden hello’ could boost staff recruitment at struggling trust

NHS in Wales gets £40 million boost to ease winter pressures

Patient acuity should be a factor in A&E staffing equation, says RCN

Erin Dean

It’s time for consensus on the future of the NHS

Graham Scott

News digest January 21 2015

News digest January 22 2015

Women on valproate drugs need clear warnings about risk to fetuses

Sally Gillen

NMC wants to remove time limits for completion of training programmes

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest January 23 2015

Five-year plan to tackle TB launched as rates in England threaten to overtake those of US

Tony Green

More district nurses needed to reduce hospital admissions

Katie Osborne

News digest January 26 2015

All nursing students should be taught how to talk to patients with learning disabilities

Alistair Kleebauer

Scottish nurse discharged after complete recovery from Ebola

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest January 27 2015

Nurses can help smokers kick the habit

RCN calls for suspension of London maternity unit closure and A&E downgrades

Tony Green