Student life - In the right place

Sarah Robinson, Jocelyn Cornish

Shrinking the agency bill

Nicky Sinden

Notice board

A success nurses can bank on

Richard Wright

Sharps injury watch

Paul De Raeve

Diabetes

Robyn Taylor

Subcutaneous injection technique: an evidence-based approach

Sherri Ogston-Tuck

Healthcare lecturers’ perceptions of spirituality in education

Sharon Prentis, Melanie Rogers, John Wattis, Janice Jones, John Stephenson

Nursing students’ reflections on the Francis report

Gerri Kaufman, Masako Kondo, Chrissy Knowles, Catrin Langford, Rebecca Leigh, Kelly Lindsay, Katie Love

Tweets of the week

Midwives say ‘enough is enough’: let’s vote for industrial action

Cathy Warwick

WHO Europe must start taking nursing profession seriously

Kevin Davies

The friends and family test is just as relevant in mental health

Norman Young

A placebo study would help to determine risks and benefits

Jane Wright

Worry instead about the ones who are given adrenaline

Marc Cornock

We need to return to a service ethos and put the good of patients first

Gary J Jones

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

Margaret Paul

Stroke Patient app

Anila Virani

The Consummate Leader – A Holistic Guide to Inspiring Growth in Others... and in Yourself

Zulfkar Hussain

Call Me Sister – District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

Valerie McGurk

Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute

Margaret Arthur

Starting out - Challenging a doctor to help a patient boosted my confidence

Amanda Ward

A misleading label that generates anxiety

Martin Hirst

Readers panel - Out from the underground

Alison Crumbie, Craig Hopkins, Beverley Brathwaite, Dave King

Have it with relish

David Newnham

The big freeze

Jane Bates

Tipping point for the NHS

Gay Lee

Voices - A fair wage for nurses is vital to the future of the NHS, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

All it takes is a bit of specialist knowledge

Jennifer Trueland

Habitat and health: why place matters

Iain Atherton, Richard Kyle

Are nurses ready for revalidation?

Katie Osborne

Diabetes

Intense media coverage of South Korean actress’s suicide blamed for copycat effect

Older designs for hip and knee implants work better than newer innovations

Doctors tend to rate care standards for dying patients more positively than nurses

Link between long-term use of benzodiazepines and Alzheimer’s disease

Supplements could be causing more liver harm than medication

Wright angle

Join our campaign to make workplace meals healthier

Coroner rules hoax led to nurse’s suicide

‘More nurses at the NMC would boost profession’s confidence in it’

Kat Keogh

Political notebook

World in brief

Council apologises for neglect that contributed to patient’s death

Team Nurse does its bit for Parkinson’s UK

Trust paid as overseas recruitment agent to help employers find staff

Katie Osborne

Vital Alcohol role needs extra funds

News in brief

Government action could have prevented sepsis deaths

Doctorate for outgoing RCN president

New code of conduct a step closer as nurses’ feedback taken on board

Alistair Kleebauer

Holiday underpayments being reimbursed to nurses

Ebola nurse calls on PM for special treatment centres

MPs to consider impact of privatisation and transatlantic agreement on NHS

Healthy eating campaign aims to improve nurses’ wellbeing

Kat Keogh

Eat Well, Nurse Well – we help lead the way

Graham Scott

News digest September 17 2014

News digest September 18 2014

NHS could be bankrupted by obesity, warns health chief

Nurses leading pioneering prostate cancer trials

News digest September 19 2014

Stephen Sutton’s £5 million legacy to fund specialist nurses and teenage cancer units

Nurses vote to strike over pay

News digest September 22 2014

Cavell Nurses’ Trust launches student scholarship awards

Children’s nurse appointed chief executive of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

News digest September 23 2014

Traumatic events ‘cause nurses to comfort eat’

Alistair Kleebauer

Longer working hours have adverse effect on patient care, nurse survey reveals

Kat Keogh