Student life - Outstanding beginnings

Always think ‘always events’

Nicola Davies

Notice board

Recruitment network

Alison Handley

A community approach

Catharine Sadler

Advance care planning

Patricia Briggs

Spirituality in nursing practice

Melanie Rogers, John Wattis

Using the Delphi technique in nursing research

Lesley Wilkes

Brain function, disease and dementia

Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan, Tom Dening

Win: Cancer and Cancer Care

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page...

Lorraine Scaife, Annie Horn

The past can teach us much about educators in clinical practice

Michael Owen

The NMC should know spiritual care is as important as ever

Andrew Rideout

Spare a thought for managers stuck in the middle of this crisis

Donato Tallo

Our Ebola teams in Sierra Leone are up there with the bravest

Kevin Davies

Far from a ‘fallback’ job option, care home nursing is a privilege

Marie Rowe

Policies will only increase pressure on nurses and GPs, not improve care

Karen Chilver

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

Margaret Paul

Hearing Voices

Zeba Arif

Dementia: The One-Stop Guide

Gill Maidens

The Secret Language of Your Child: How Children Talk Before They Can Speak

Valerie McGurk

Alzheimer’s Society

Liz Charalambous

Starting out - Patient meeting showed me that breaking bad news is a vital skill

Laura Anghel

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - A helping hand at the start

Stephanie Cumming, Scott Justice, Grant Byrne, Beverley Ramdeen

Name and shame

David Newnham

Plain awkward

Jane Bates

Distorted reflection

Nicole Schnackenberg

Voices - It’s time for government to make NHS nurses feel valued, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

‘A light at the end of the tunnel’

Alison Moore

How to pin down ‘butterfly’ care

Daloni Carlisle

Designing the service around the patient

Elaine Cole

Progestogen-only pills

Lipid-lowering drugs may be effective in the prevention of stroke in older people

A family history of breast cancer does not increase chance of disease recurrence

Cranial radiation therapy in childhood increases the incidence of obesity in adults

Single motherhood linked to poor health and increased levels of disability in later life

Risk of death from any cause is reduced by even light exercise

Care homes struggle to balance rising costs with fall in funding

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

Trusts set to trial hand-held scanner for pressure ulcers

New guidance for assessing dementia

Hospital staff caught up in Chua killings offered support by trust

Sally Gillen

‘Talk to new recruits about their use of social media’

Pilot trust introduces new checks to prepare staff for revalidation

Alistair Kleebauer

Patient concerns over low staffing levels revealed

ICN reiterates its call for more Ebola protection

Regulator to consult on language competency testing for EEA workers

NI Macmillan nurse wins RCN accolade

Hospitals must stop being ‘ripped off’ by staff agencies – NHS chief

Alistair Kleebauer

This staffing model is great news for nursing

Graham Scott