Student life - Boost your word power

Katherine Rogers, Maggie Bennett

A joined-up approach

Thomas Lawrence

Notice board

Leading the way to inclusion

Building the future

Geri Coulls

Promoting the 6Cs

Derrick Tait

Preventing healthcare-associated infections: the role of surveillance

Brett G Mitchell, Philip L Russo

Advance care planning in a community setting

Josaleen Connolly, Stuart Milligan, Elaine Stevens, Susan Jackson, Kevin Rooney

Increasing nurse and midwife engagement in research activity

Kay Mitchell, Lesley Baillie, Natasha Phillips

Win: FunkyFobz

Tweets of the week

Correction

Broadland June 1985 set to celebrate 30-year anniversary

Caroline Sargisson

Ebola Tracker app panders to the ‘paranoid well’ in the West

Daniel Lynch

Agencies can help overseas nurses find jobs in hospitals

Elzbieta Nestorowicz

The right-to-die campaigner who won a key legal ruling

Louise Boole

Ward rounds have no place in today’s hospital settings

Helena Soni

Recruiting people with the right core values into the profession

Naomi Lyth

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

Margaret Paul

Sheffield SH (Sexual Health) app

Margaret Arthur

Fundamentals of Medical-Surgical Nursing – A Systems Approach

Valerie McGurk

The New Politics of the NHS: From Creation to Reinvention – Seventh edition

Marc Cornock

PACE – Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education

Roger Evans

Back to the quick fix

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - I find homophobia more difficult to confront than sexism or racism

Grant Byrne

Diabetes care goes beyond the physical

Margaret Stubbs

Readers panel - Attractions of a golden hello

Scott Justice, Daniel Athey, Linda Drake, Elsie Gayle

Lethargy looms

David Newnham

Conscience vote

Jane Bates

Still bridging a divide

Drew Payne

Voices - Just small changes can improve the nation’s health, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

Heading for a healthier, more equal future

Erin Dean

Dying to be accepted

Erin Dean

Honest, open and non-judgemental

Elaine Cole

Young people and self-harm

Walking groups deliver health benefits to people with long-term conditions

Study shows spiritual impact of intensive care experience in non-Western patients

Long-term hormonal contraception use may raise risk of glioma of the brain

Common gut microbe could help prevent development of multiple sclerosis

GPs failing to offer weight-loss advice to people who need it

Labour draws up NHS battle lines as general election looms nearer

Alistair Kleebauer

Political notebook

NMC agrees key changes to midwives’ supervisory system

World in brief

Wall art designed to calm young patients

Macmillan raises concerns that Liverpool Care Pathway is still used

Tony Green

MPs shown how to love their liver

Use spirometry first to improve diagnosis of asthma, says NICE

Tony Green

NMC welcomes progress on bill for more flexible regulation

Leadership switch for public health

News in brief

OBE for criminal justice nurse

Safe staffing legislation will change behaviour, says RCN Wales director

Tony Green

RCN launches pre-election manifesto and urges nurses to get involved

Labour promises to end market forces in NHS

Looking ahead to the new nursing code of conduct

Nurse leaders attend Seacole statue appeal

Staff to vote on 1 per cent rise after last minute talks halt strike

Alistair Kleebauer

Pioneering centre goes beyond gender labelling

Graham Scott

News digest February 04 2015

News digest February 05 2015

Ebola aid volunteer nurses will qualify for special medal

Katie Osborne

News digest February 06 2015

Action plan launched to reduce health inequalities among men who have sex with men

Cathy Comerford

UK services for women who have undergone female genital mutilation need improvement, says RCN

Erin Dean

News digest February 09 2015

Soaring costs of agency nurses unlikely to fall in near future, says leading trust

Erin Dean

Ombudsman review reveals ‘significant variation’ in quality of NHS investigations

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest February 10 2015

Avoid alcohol completely if you are trying to conceive or in the first trimester, guidance states

Katie Osborne

Nurse cared for 20 patients on her own at London trust, says CQC report

Alistair Kleebauer