Student life - Covering letter is your big chance to stand out

Kathy Marsh

Ward off unwanted advances

Nicola Davies

Noticeboard

Volunteering in a disaster zone

Jens Kastner

Your chance to shine

Alison Handley

Writing for publication

Caroline Estrella

Managing fatigue in adults with multiple sclerosis

Susan Jane Hourihan

Use of interviews in nursing research

Gary Mitchell

Diagnosis of dementia

Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan, Tom Dening

Win: Health Promotion Practice

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page…

Ethel Gallagher, Allison Catherine Govan

Correction

Immigration change for nurses not the same as ‘deportation’

Julie Moktadir

I vow to keep making ‘noise’ about the importance of safe staffing levels

Jennifer Hunt

A greater degree of pride is needed to build a better NHS

Donalto Tallo

Post-registration training must be part of the education debate

Sue Haines

We need more registered nursing staff on the wards

John Coduri

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

Margaret Paul

NUH Staff

Janet Snell

Studying Postgraduate Healthcare A Pre-reader

Amy Hunter

Confronting Chronic Pain– A Pain Doctor’s Guide to Relief

Karin Cannons

The Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff

John Adams

Starting out - A hectic medical emergency taught me not to forget my patient’s needs

Carmel O’Boyle

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - Reining in agency costs

Linda Drake, Drew Payne, Esther Tanton, Daniel Athey

Soundbite science

David Newnham

Plane stupid

Jane Bates

Take the patient safety pledge

Suzette Woodward

Voices - We all want safe staffing, and NICE can deliver it, says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

Why women ignore first signs of cancer

Jackie Harris

Fit for the future

Lynne Pearce

A nurse who never gives up

Elaine Cole

Violence at work

Exercise therapy is more beneficial than arthroscopic surgery in older knee patients

Long hours spent watching TV or computer screens affects teenage boys’ bone health

Children’s negative thoughts and anxieties about elective surgery reduced by play

Seeing images of calcified coronary arteries may serve as patients’ wake-up call

Regular cardio activity could reduce severity of asthma symptoms

How safer clinical practice could prevent needless asthma deaths

Colleagues celebrate Windrush legacy

‘The NHS is paying millions to rent overseas nurses temporarily’

Jennifer Sprinks

Charity highlights unsafe inhaler use

News in brief

Mental health wards offered £5m for more social activities

Senior nurse exodus threatens to disrupt plans for seven-day NHS

Alistair Kleebauer

Protest over end of NICE’s project on safe staffing

RCN president calls for staffing guidance U-turn

Stress is a leading cause of nurses’ sickness absence

Majority vote against covert filming

Outgoing RCN general secretary urges nurses to speak up and unite

Jennifer Sprinks

NHS needs a workforce plan, not border control

Graham Scott