Student life - Here they come, ready or not

Karen Missen

On the move

Notice board

Principled and calm in a crisis

Karen Castille

Aspiring to the UK way

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Oral cancer

Elizabeth Perkins

Clinical commissioning: the nurse’s role

Jennifer Oates, Soline Jerram, Ian Wilson

Improving access to health care for homeless people

Venetia Lamb, Claire Joels

Healthcare-associated infections: the value of patient isolation

Linda Nicholson

Tweets of the week

Correction

If Ebola were to become airborne, it would be a global catastrophe

Christine Clark

Nurses are in the forefront of Ebola virus disease outbreak

Viroj Wiwanitkit

A global community for safe, healthy and nourished eaters

Danielle Nierenberg

Over-reliance on technology may be at the expense of care

Michael Adams

The latest registration fee rise is a kick in the teeth for nurses

Jane Beach

Lessons from the military in working together for the benefit of patients

Helen Evans

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

Margaret Paul

WhatsMyM3 app

Roger Evans

Mindful Co-working – Be Confident, Happy and Productive in Your Working Relationships

Grant Byrne

Unknown Warriors – The Letters of Kate Luard, RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918

Margot Lindsay

Crohn’s and Colitis UK

John Adams

Starting out - A boy’s death in Tanzania taught me that avoidable errors cost lives

Sarah Penn

Tap our talents

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - No such thing as a weekend

Rebecca Harper, Linda Drake, Drew Payne, Jane Scullion

Smart-alec phone

David Newnham

Privatised pain

Jane Bates

Healing on a plate

Stephen Wright

Voices - Crystal Oldman urges politicians to enter the community care debate

Crystal Oldman

Counting the hours to stay on the register

Erin Dean

Action stations against the ‘silent epidemic’

Jennifer Trueland

Postnatal care planning

Cancer patients do not find it easier to quit smoking by using e-cigarettes

Increases in skirt size strong predictor of breast cancer risk after the menopause

Unlicensed drug may be safe treatment for age-related macular degeneration

Opt-out consent systems associated with higher number of kidney transplants

New asthma cases linked to a sense of job insecurity

To the rescue – the NHS rests its hopes on former registrants returning

Nurse awarded MBE tells others to ‘aim high’

Staff face fight to keep weekend pay if 24/7 services are introduced

Alistair Kleebauer

World in brief

Political notebook

Our strategy is to make MPs think about nurses’ vote, says Peter Carter

RCN CAMHS expert advises ministers

News in brief

Nursing care toolkit helps ensure safety in numbers

Better long-term workforce planning urgently needed, says health leader

Kat Keogh

Ebola nurse calls on world to help

Lib Dems shore up support for safe staffing levels

The RCN will hold all parties to their conference pledges, says Peter Carter

More practice nurses needed to stem GP crisis

BBC rapped over Nightingale portrayal

‘Don’t blame nurses for poor patient satisfaction, blame staff shortages’

Graham Scott

Regulator could end up footing the majority of bill for PSA

Older nurses threatening to leave as NMC approves hike in fees

Kat Keogh

Listen to the evidence on safe staffing levels

Graham Scott

News digest October 08 2014

News digest October 09 2014

Mid Staffs staffing rates are ‘only just adequate’, says chief inspector

Clinicians could breach UK law if they base CPR decisions on age or disability

News digest October 10 2014

Majority of nursing students are considering work abroad

Sally Gillen

Levels of resistance to antibiotics increases, while their year on year prescription grows

Alistair Kleebauer

News digest October 13 2014

Metrics will expose trusts with poor racial equality feedback

Nurses and midwives in England and Northern Ireland break with tradition to strike over pay

Kat Keogh

Unions buoyed by support for NHS pay strike

Kat Keogh

News digest October 14 2014

Thousands take part in Eat Well, Nurse Well survey

Too many people with dementia are at risk of receiving poor care, says CQC

Kat Keogh