Student life - A six-week placement opened doors for me

Maria Pavkovic

Focus on offenders’ health

Adam Horner

Noticeboard

Racing back to hospital practice

Alison Handley

All in my day’s work

Pamela Shaw

Presentation skills

Mary Dougan

Clinical presentation, assessment and management of pre-eclampsia

Layla Lavallee

Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia

Tom Dening, Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan

Using observational methods in nursing research

Jenny Salmon

Win: Communication and Interpersonal Skills

What you’re saying on our Facebook page…

Allison Catherine Govan, Helen Thornton, Dana Rose

Incident reporting should be used as a catalyst for change

Donato Tallo

Congress was empowering and revived my passion for nursing

Samantha Spence

Tweets of the week

England’s CNO has shown courage and leadership

Joan Pons Laplana

The ‘noise’ surrounding nurse staffing will not diminish

James Smith,

Safe staffing guidance is too important to be sidelined

Jane Ball

Planning a seven-day-a-week NHS without extra funding is madness

Drew Payne

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

Margaret Paul

Beat Panic

Andrea Shaw

Sixty Years a Nurse

Emma Vincent

Pharmacology Case Studies for Nurse Prescribers

Valerie McGurk

Stop Online Abuse

John Adams

Starting out - Helping a nurse provide holistic care inspired me to get more involved

Alex Ocampo

Speak out

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Admitting to a ‘near miss’

Stephanie Cumming, Linda Drake, Craig Hopkins, Kate Tantam

Biryani buddies

David Newnham

Too tight to call

Jane Bates

Counting the cost

Hakam Abbass

Voices - Nurses have shown they are stronger than ever, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Taking the plunge with lipoedema

Mary-Claire Mason

Why should I have to use a catheter?

Jennifer Trueland

Diabetes care tool puts kids in control

Elaine Cole

Personality disorders

Recurrent depression and use of antidepressants linked to lower bone density in men

Patients gain only slight benefits from controlling their own analgesia

Gene mutation exacerbates fast-growing anaplastic oligodendroglioma cancers

Gut bacteria A. muciniphila boosts metabolism and distribution of body fat

Exposure to pollution shrinks white matter volume in the brain

Why the odds feel stacked against nurse recruiters outside the NHS

Red armband for care team captain

Nurses slate mental health staffing guide for not setting specific levels

Jennifer Sprinks

News in brief

Invest more in hospital care of the most vulnerable children

Use finger pricking to cut prescriptions

A hub of information on diabetes

Deficits warning – last year was tough but this year will be tougher

Christian Duffin

Inspectors heap praise on nurse-led GP practice

Employers issue post-Savile advice on official visits

Short-sighted cuts to public health budgets will cost NHS dear, says RCN

Ghana delegation and the RCN swap notes on pay and staffing

Scrap nursing bursaries and bring in tuition fees, say universities

Jennifer Sprinks

Tuition fees and loans won’t bring in recruits

Graham Scott