Student life - Helping hands in the placement process

Sarah Robinson, Jocelyn Cornish

A massive opportunity

Denis Parkinson

Notice board

Suited, booted and ready to help

Julie Flaherty

Challenging the system

Jenny Knight

Chronic pain in adults

Rosalind Ponomarenko-Jones

Child maltreatment: every nurse’s business

Julie Taylor, Caroline Bradbury-Jones

Synthesising the literature as part of a literature review

Ann Wakefield

Infection prevention and control

Anne Pegram, Jacqueline Bloomfield

Win: The Self-Directed Learner

Deborah Bone 1963-2014

Roger Evans

Ian Jacobs 1958-2014

Roger Evans

Tweets of the week

I wish RCNi had been around to help me with my master’s degree

Mandy Kazmierski

Website opens up a vast universe of knowledge for every nurse

Zeba Arif

To cut benefits because someone is obese would be inhumane

Bridget Ryan

Good nursing requires caring practitioners with knowledge

Donato Tallo

I am puzzled that staffing ratios continue to be controversial

Jenny Kay

Shifting the financial burden of health care has a heavy price

Karen Chilver

Professionals who feel valued by their managers deliver better care

Michael Owen

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

Margaret Paul

Anatomy Quiz Pro app

Bridget Ryan

Person-Centred Teams – A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work

Valerie McGurk

Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease – A Guide for the Non-Specialist

Susan Watkins

NHS Choices: Check Your Heart Age

Margaret Arthur

Starting out - My efforts to promote nursing’s 6Cs in practice inspired me and others

Lucy Bazeley Chambers

Ethical dilemmas

Ann Gallagher

Readers panel - Is pay deal too little, too late?

Jane Scullion, Drew Payne, Elsie Gayle, Daniel Athey

Wasted time

David Newnham

Why it’s good to talk

Owen Barr

Voices - Like nurses, education must adapt to changes in care, says Janet Finch

Dame Janet Finch

Real concern

Jane Bates

Give cancer patients a choice about fertility

Grete Breuton-Smith

Working towards a new standard of care

Alison Moore

Incentives that draw staff to a trust

Alison Moore

Chronic pain

Spider venom proteins could be used to relieve pain thanks to their nerve-blocking action

Significantly more women than men have bariatric surgery as trend continues

Use of chlorhexidine to cleanse the umbilical cord could reduce infant deaths

Drinking coffee daily shows potential to protect against cardiovascular disease

Close-familial prostate cancer might increase risk of breast cancer

‘The standards of a degree-based nurse are absolutely unchangeable’

Alistair Kleebauer

Nurse Awards’ finalists meet the judges

NHS staff to be given help to lose weight and live healthier lifestyles

Sally Gillen, Katie Osborne

News in brief

Joint diabetes prevention initiative unveiled for England

Cancer specialist staff crisis looms

Team with a mountain to climb

Australian safe staffing ratios lack flexibility, says top nurse after visit

Alistair Kleebauer

Intensive intervention for teenage mothers widened

‘Good care guide’ invites feedback from relatives

Pay increase for Scotland’s NHS staff puts them ahead of others in UK

Cancer task force chair yields to pressure over ‘glaring omission’

Shape of Caring recommends new training model to reinforce skills

Alistair Kleebauer

Let’s see action on Willis’ framework for education

Graham Scott