Student life - Getting to grips with money management

Nicola Davies

Student life - Embrace essay writing as a holistic process

Claire Emery

Student life - The portfolio is your key to self-development

Miriam McMullan

Student life - Make your reflection count

Lynn Brown

Student life - First placement: a survivor’s guide

Samantha Stonehouse

Student life - Thinking beyond the obvious

Patricia Hunt

Student life - Learning through simulation

Liz Berragan, Heather Short, Eirlys Grindrod

Student life - Academic integrity leads on to ethical practice

Sue Coffey, Hilde Zitzelsberger, Charles Anyinam

Student life - Welcome to a great and meaningful career

Helen Green, Grant Byrne

Student life - Peer support is essential, whether in person or online

Rebecca Coxon

Doing it their own way

Carol Davis

Notice board

Mental health nurses on call

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Help out of the habit

Karolyn Crowley

Inguinal hernia repair

Sigi Mueller

Intramuscular injection technique: an evidence-based approach

Sherri Ogston-Tuck

Improving your journal article using feedback from peer review

Bob Price

How to empower patients, and involve the public

Stewart Piper

Tweets of the week

‘Sister Kate’ did good work as a dame of the order of Malta

Helena Soni

Obesity is a problem, but it is unlikely to bankrupt the NHS

Bridget Ryan

We need help from our managers, not a culture of blame and fear

William Pooley’s dedication has restored our faith in humanity

Michael Owen

Nurses are not the only ones needing help on safe staffing

Theo Androuliakos

The John Lewis model of ‘mutuals’ is no way forward for today’s NHS

Margaret North

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

Margaret Paul

Instant Heart Rate app

Oliver McGurk

HCAI Research Network

Margaret Arthur

A Very Private Diary – A Nurse in Wartime

John Adams

Clinical Research Manual – Practical Tools and Templates for Managing Clinical Research

Irene Mabbott

Starting out - I found the courage to broach a big subject with a vulnerable patient

Stephanie Wagg

Polling fever

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Promises hard to swallow

Jane Brown, Scott Justice, Paul Jebb, Elsie Gayle

On a knife edge

David Newnham

Stories we tell

Jane Bates

The first embrace

Jenny Clarke

Voices - Health support in the early years pays dividends later, says Viv Bennett

Viv Bennett

Fuelled by feedback

Alison Moore

Healing powers

George Winter

Suicide: the preventable crisis

Jennifer Trueland

Malnutrition

Half of patients who wake during general anaesthesia experience distress

Even one incident of binge drinking in pregnancy can affect child’s learning capacity

Connection between smoking and salt intake in development of rheumatoid arthritis

Stress hormones caused by grief leave older people at increased risk of infection

Obese and overweight people eat more when discriminated against

Inspiring stories kick-start the Eat Well, Nurse Well campaign

Political notebook

Teenage Cancer Trust receives £5m legacy in memory of Stephen Sutton

World in brief

Cavell’s dog goes on display in London

Leading cancer nurse urges use of 6Cs to help patients die well

Katie Osborne

Trusts introduce IV administration workbook to log evidence of skills

Alistair Kleebauer

Former nurse is the first to volunteer for Ebola trial

News in brief

Partnership’s bid to improve care for patients with cancer

Study into use of hormone therapy

Book traces history of RAF nursing

NHS England chief executive backs our Eat Well, Nurse Well campaign

Kat Keogh

Safe staffing group broadens focus to community

‘Need for change’ in Scotland’s health services

Comfort eating in nurses linked to stressful experiences or lifestyle

Nurse cycles across the UK for QNI

Unison members vote ‘yes’ to action on pay

Kat Keogh

Scotland vote will have far-reaching fallout

Graham Scott

News digest September 24 2014

News digest September 25 2014

NHS staff prepare for first walk-out in 32 years

South Asian women targeted in ‘how to complain’ campaign

News digest September 26 2014

Scotland’s chief nurse to stand down

Praise for clinical nurse specialists in England’s first outstanding hospital

News digest September 29 2014

Ensure staff take breaks, NICE tells employers

Unite union to join NHS strike on October 13

Kat Keogh

News digest September 30 2014

Online seminar will discuss why there is a lack of BME nurse leaders

Midwives to stage historic strike in row over NHS pay

Kat Keogh