Student life - Apply a critical eye to statistics in research

Nicola Davies

Caring beyond the bedside

Shorai Dzirambe

Noticeboard

Care home role needs direction

Karen Spilsbury

Tips for preceptorship

Karen Elcock

Communication skills

Rosalyn King

Integrating the 6Cs of nursing into mentorship practice

Kathleen Duffy

Type 1 diabetes and alcohol consumption

Natasha MacNaught, Paula Holt

Prone positioning in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Kristy Gibson, Marlene Dufault, Kathy Bergeron

Win: The Healthcare Improvement Profile

Tweets of the week

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

Lisa Walker, Carol Davidson, Rich Oliver

Help the QNI identify common barriers to effective discharge

Candice Pellett

Issues relating to disseminating nursing research are unchanged

Jennifer Hunt

Nurses are being driven to work abroad yet no one seems to care

Sophia Karim

Accentuate good end of life care but don’t side-step the bad

Grant Byrne

Gove attack highlights why we urgently need to defend our NHS

Karen Chilver

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

Margaret Paul

Sleep Diary

Grant Byrne

Under Cover of Darkness – How I blogged my way through Mantle cell lymphoma

Valerie McGurk

The Forgiveness Project – stories for a vengeful age

Stephen Wright

Saving Lives

John Adams

Starting out - Finding courage to blow the whistle helped me develop my practice

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - Screening opportunity knocks

Pete Hawkins, Sarah-Louise Flowers, Drew Payne, Kate Tantam

The right to care

Nicci Gerrard

Just saying

Jane Bates

Uneasy partnership

Zeba Arif

Voices - Join forces to help stop female genital mutilation, says Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings

In the front line of risk from violence

Lynne Pearce

Miners’ nurse recalls going down the pit

Lynne Pearce

Better care ahead for infants and parents

Elaine Cole

Breast cancer

Men who become fathers early are more likely to die in middle age, study suggests

People who eat spicy food regularly have a reduced risk of death, say researchers

Substituting nurse aides for registered nurses can raise workload and affect safety

Older people with COPD have fall rates similar to those with neurological conditions

Exercise programme helps pregnant women cope with back pain

Rethink for end of life care aims to put people before process

Sally Gillen

Nurse specialist leads the way

Music played during operations can impair team communication

Alistair Kleebauer

News in brief

Legislation aims to ensure staff are fluent in English

Alert over health visitor workloads

Calais migrant camp conditions are desperate, says nurse volunteer

Christian Duffin

Tram named in nurse’s honour

College general secretary wants to meet members

RCN wins weekend rates and overtime payments for private firm employees

‘Piecemeal’ regulation needs overhaul, says PSA

GBBO is the icing on the cake for baker Alvin

Trusts must not let financial woes threaten safe staffing, RCN warns

Jennifer Sprinks

When a student speaks, managers should listen

Graham Scott