Best interests

Richard Griffith

Help to spot deterioration

Robin Lewis

Reducing your risk of back injury at work

Nicola Davies

Better prepared for stroke care

Paul Carr

Taking on a supporting role

Tamsin Newton Snow

‘A few grateful words can make your day’

David Fairweather

More than just a daily ritual

Letitia Agbegah

News update

Courses & resources

Putting HCAs on the map

Jacqueline Filkins

Student life - Every student’s responsibility

Louise Goodyear

What’s really in a name?

Jane Redfern Jones

Notice board

Calling on some foreign aid

Alison Handley

The cost of justice

Tamsin Newton Snow

Paracetamol overdose

Anita Skinner

Presentation skills for nurses

Mark Foulkes

Care, compassion and communication

Jacqueline Bloomfield, Anne Pegram

Washing uniforms at home: adherence to hospital policy

Kate Riley, Katie Laird, John Williams

Win: Caring for People with Learning Disabilities

Tweets of the week

Family-centred care is not about having all the answers

Sally Harding

Taking the time to listen and value others costs nothing

Donato Tallo

Small actions will make a big difference on NHS Change Day

Martin Turner

The mother figure of matron should take charge of feeding

Mike Walker

Peter Carter played a key role in pressing for better Hospital Food

Mike Duckett

The RCN is losing one of the best leaders it has had in recent years

Naomi Lyth

NHS whistleblowers are heroes for some and villains for others

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

Alcohoot app

Steph Caldwell

The Math Book – From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

Valerie McGurk

Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany – The ‘Euthanasia Programs’

Marc Cornock

CliniQ

Shelagh Daly

What’s the problem?

Paul Hodgkin

Keep it private

Marc Cornock

Starting out - An unexpected operation made me think differently about pain relief

William Ball

Ice bucket challenge funds four specialist nurses

Sally Light

Readers panel - A matter of life and death

Scott Justice, Jane Brown, Esther Tanton, Jane Scullion

The name game

David Newnham

Critical state

Jane Bates

Access all areas

Ann Norman

Voices - Now is the time to push for safe staffing ratios, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Feeling the strain

Erin Dean

Helping patients who go it alone

Jennifer Trueland

Seamless service

Alison Moore

GORD

Rate of donated hearts that are declined grows despite lengthening waiting lists

Training nurses in religious awareness may improve care of patients with dementia

Being distracted and tired raises chance of developing low back pain

Link between bacterial infections and reduced risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Screening tool helps initiate honest talk about end of life care

Full circle at privately-run NHS trust as operator hands it back

Katie Osborne

Octogenarian returns to duty

NHS to close residential hospitals for people with learning disabilities

Sally Gillen

World in brief

Political notebook

Wales and Scotland gets much needed nurse training boost

‘Mock pub’ raises the spirits at Glasgow care home

Laundering uniforms at less than 60°C may increase risk of HCAIs

Erin Dean

News in brief

Make complaints a high priority says Patient Association chief

Claims risk alert for pressure ulcers

Students who speak out are promised same support as staff

‘New whistleblower guardian role must be accountable to the CQC’

Alistair Kleebauer

Nurses to face fresh NMC registration fee hike

Extra specialists needed to care for patients with COPD

Guidance for families turning to surveillance to expose poor care

End of era as Carter steps down at RCN

Wales’ proposed safe staffing law could benefit care in England too

Alistair Kleebauer

Dr Carter’s legacy to the RCN and the profession

Graham Scott

News digest February 18 2015

News digest February 19 2015

Nurses urged to become diabetes clinical champions

Sally Gillen

Patient safety alert on non-invasive ventilation

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest February 20 2015

RCN backs bereaved family’s call for better provision of mental health care

Alistair Kleebauer

New NMC code of conduct to be delivered to every nurse in the UK

Sally Gillen

News digest February 23 2015

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey under investigation by NMC over screening

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest February 24 2015

Nursing Standard Nurse Awards’ finalists revealed

Katie Osborne