Student life - ‘I know this is my life now’

Kimberley Gill

Offering continuity and advice

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Notice board

Clinical Nurse Specialist - ‘Patients value our judgement’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

A strategic approach

Nursing research

Emily Goss

Preparing a successful, role-specific curriculum vitae

Bob Price

Enabling ICU patients to die at home

Emma Battle, Lucy Bates, Emma Liderth, Samantha Jones, Sheryl Sheen, Andrew Ginty, Melanie Northmore

Type 2 diabetes: a case study

Priscilla Cunningham, Helen Noble

Tweets of the week

University College Hospital set 241 marks 35th anniversary

Diane Skinner (Dee Weaver)

‘Pre-diabetes’ is a misleading label covering up disagreement

Sally Harding

Fragile economies in West Africa are being devastated by Ebola

Naomi Lyth

Embracing spirituality through the practice of meditation

Andrew Low

Empowerment is not an issue for patients who are satisfied

Bridget Ryan

How does evidence-based care fit in with empowerment and choice?

Christine Clark

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

Margaret Paul

About Ebola app

Roger Evans

Wards in the Sky – The RAF’s Remarkable Nursing Service

Margaret Arthur

Obesity

Steph Caldwell

BHA – for equality in health and social care

Helena Soni

In the changing community

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Nursing a dying drug misuser made me put aside my preconceptions

Louisa Power

Don’t forget the lessons history teaches us

Gail Adams

Readers panel - Art of asking for assistance

Beverley Brathwaite, Grant Byrne, Edwin Chamanga, Daniel Athey

Rude awakening

David Newnham

Team players

Jane Bates

Coaching for confidence

Shirley Baah-Mensah

Voices - Yvonne Coghill wants black people’s achievements to receive more recognition

Yvonne Coghill

Eating for health

Jennifer Trueland

Ethnicity no barrier to career heights

Jennifer Trueland

Deadly situation

Erin Dean

Varicose veins

Psychological and behavioural interventions may be needed to combat food addiction

Nurses believe speaking up about workplace violence will make no difference

Tailored support could reduce ambivalence about live liver organ donation

Study results provide evidence for preventing cannabis use in teenagers

Experience of maternity care varies between socio-economic groups

Debate on English devolution could have repercussions on health policy

Katie Osborne

Longer shifts are a threat to patient safety, Europe-wide survey shows

Kat Keogh

Malawi clinicians praise VSO work

World in brief

Political notebook

NICE urges employers to make roles compatible with wellbeing

News in brief

Handheld devices are saving hundreds of lives, study claims

‘How to complain’ campaign launched

Nurses trial ‘huddle’ technique that aims to improve communication

Alistair Kleebauer

Graduate Amin scoops award for nursing excellence

Three unions prepare to strike in anger over pay later this month

Katie Osborne

Super slimmer runs for charity

Miliband makes nurses key to his election strategy

Government will spend £5 million to lure ex-registrants back to practice

Nominations now invited for 2015 nurse awards

Trust earns highest CQC rating for leadership and exemplary care

NMC set to vote on fee increase, despite £55m projected savings

Kat Keogh

Talk is not enough – now it is time for action

Graham Scott

News digest October 01 2014

News digest October 02 2014

GMB members to join NHS pay strike

Anger at hike in NMC registration fees

News digest October 03 2014

Nurses face fight to keep extra pay for working unsocial hours if 24/7 services are introduced

More practice nurses needed as hundreds of GP surgeries at risk of closure, says RCN

News digest October 06 2014

Healthcare leaders issue warning on NHS to politicians

Eligible nurses fail to claim £170 a year in UK tax relief

Kat Keogh

News digest October 07 2014

Guidance advises healthcare professionals how to spot signs of sexual exploitation in children and young people

Nurses must take action to reverse the tide of the UK tuberculosis epidemic, says Viv Bennett