Student life - Hit the ground running

Dawn Morley, Amanda Alexander, Joanne Hewitt, Teresa Pearce, Elinor Suter, Clare Taylor

Benefits of higher learning

Liz Charalambous

Notice board

A passion for quality care

Tamsin Newton Snow

Caring for carers

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Lung cancer

Brenda Chivima

Respecting patient confidentiality

Bob Price

Community mental health initiatives in Pakistan

Gulnar Ali, Nasreen S Lalani, Nadia Ali Muhammad Ali Charania

A quality improvement initiative to reduce needlestick injuries

Anthony Beynon

Win: Pocket Plus LED Set

Elizabeth Morris 1924-2014

John Adams

Geraldine Byrne 1959-2014

Sally Kendall

Tweets of the week

Nightingale March 1985 set to celebrate 30-year anniversary

Carole Collier

If nurses are busy, family help at mealtimes should be encouraged

Adrienne Ford

Guidance on staffing in A&E is to be welcomed, but long overdue

Kevin Davies

Individuals, not tasks, are at the centre of our work as nurses

Donato Tallo

Faith helps us to understand our role – and to offer love

Dave King

Patients needing to discuss religion should be referred to the specialists

Helen Evans

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

Margaret Paul

Ebola – What You Need to Know app

Roger Evans

DSM-5 Made Easy – The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis

Marc Cornock

The Psychology of Babies

Valerie McGurk

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Christian Duffin

Starting out - Patience and compassion helped me connect with vulnerable patient

Alicia Winstanley

Money matters

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Making up for lost time

Stephanie Cumming, Drew Payne, Linda Drake, Craig Hopkins

Weighing in

David Newnham

Friendly face

Jane Bates

A restriction of liberty

Niall O’Loingsigh

Voices - We need to make some noise on NHS shortfalls, urges Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Clearing the air

Erin Dean

Flying to the rescue

Alistair Kleebauer

Diabetes and foot care

Doctors facing complaints are at higher risk of depression and self-harm

Screening asymptomatic adults unlikely to deliver major benefits in mortality

Teaching school pupils how to deal with mental ill health reduces suicide rates

Keeping in good spirits reduces risk of age-induced osteoporosis in women

Care home residents frequently dehydrated on admission to hospital

Controversial safe staffing guidance is necessary but ‘unrealistic’

Changing attitudes to organ donation

Innovative nursing research unit to encourage evidence-based practice

Tony Green

World in brief

Political notebook

‘Absent’ palliative services stop people being able to die at home

News in brief

CQC’s inadequate care rating for Hinchingbrooke challenged

£100m cash injection to reduce pressure

Diagnosis and treatment plan aims to eliminate TB across England

Tony Green

Work Foundation study calls for more IBD nurses

Tutors wear silicon body parts and masks to represent real patients

Revalidation may ‘go live’ later in England than in other UK countries

Katie Osborne

Thousands of NHS staff to walk out over pay

Unsocial hours pay should be increased, RB told

Vindicated whistleblowers need to receive an apology, say MPs

Joy for Pauline as she is given Ebola all-clear

Students need skills in talking to patients with learning disabilities

Alistair Kleebauer

Revalidation is vital to restore nursing’s image

Graham Scott

News digest January 28 2015

News digest January 29 2015

NMC makes ‘landmark’ statutory supervision change

Katie Osborne

NHS strike suspended as union members consider revised pay offer

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest January 30 2015

NMC chief ‘deeply troubled’ by proposals to make healthcare regulators pay for monitoring body

Healthcare regulator publishes new code of conduct for nurses and midwives

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest February 02 2015

Compassion tests for would-be students are pointless, argues academic

Katie Osborne

Unison calls on nurses and midwives to take part in staffing levels survey

Sally Gillen

News digest February 03 2015

Chatting with a nurse during surgery helps to relax patients and reduce pain

Cathy Comerford

Scottish Government invests £40,000 in campaign encouraging staff to introduce themselves to patients

Sally Gillen