Student life - Front line preparation

Stuart Keeling

Quality people = quality care

Nicola Davies

Notice board

Guaranteed to make you smile

Susan Smyth

Shaping better community care

Catharine Sadler

Subcutaneous injection

Amy Smith

Improving surgical outcomes for people with dementia

Diane Loughlin, Margaret Brown

Preventing infection in rehabilitation centres

Nicola Mousley

Using narrative in nursing research

Maria Joyce

Win: A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Thinking

Tweets of the week

Selfless Ebola nurses deserve to have their own special award

Michael Owen

It’s time to stop equating the spiritual with the religious

Laura Middleton-Green

Heed the evidence on place of spiritual needs in health care

Wilfred McSherry, Linda Ross

Omitting spirituality from NMC code disadvantages our patients

Chris Swift

Take politics out of the NHS and show us it is a true priority

Kevin Davies

Information systems are too vital to be left to non-nursing geeks

June Clark

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

Margaret Paul

MyFitnessPal

Grant Byrne

Excellence in Dementia Care. Research into Practice. Second Edition

Karyn Davies

Gallipoli: Year of love and duty

Emma Vincent

Dying Matters

Liz Charalambous

Starting out - Clinical placement in the UK opened my eyes to wider world of nursing

Hélène Roué

Medicines Management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - Hunt’s health agenda: take two

Linda Drake, Jane Scullion, Kate Tantam, Grant Byrne

Knit one, save one

David Newnham

Get the point

Jane Bates

Important decisions

Nicola Davies

Voices - Safe staffing is equally vital in the community, writes Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

When you need to have a quiet word

Jennifer Trueland

New Code punishes failure to speak out

Jennifer Sprinks

Autism spectrum disorder

People who use walking sticks restrict their mobility due to fear of falling, study finds

Post-menopausal women’s sexual function can improve without any treatment

Rapid weight drop, not low BMI, linked to mortality risk in rheumatoid arthritis

Weight loss occurs within two years of swapping driving for more active journey to work

Frequent visitors to A&E are twice as likely to die or be admitted

Tories prepare to push ahead with 24/7 integrated community care

Alistair Kleebauer, Jennifer Sprinks

First minister praises front line staff

New scheme could punish regular absenteeism with financial penalty

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Hand grip strength linked to stroke and heart failure risk

Care quality system promises time benefits

O’Grady pays tribute to our winners

Jobs figures point to dilution of skills in emergency departments

Jennifer Sprinks

Attack unsocial hours pay at your peril, RCN warns

‘My work in Africa made me aware of wasted resources’

Mary Seacole statue progress stalls as appeal chair says funds are drying up

Chief nursing officer says we need to stop talking about poor image

Welsh assembly committee backs law on safe staffing in hospitals

Jennifer Sprinks

Slash unsocial hours pay at your peril, minister

Graham Scott