Student life - Putting theory into practice every day

Nicola Davies

On the move

Noticeboard

Doing the rounds in the US

Alison Handley

Record as you learn

Mandy Day-Calder

Agitation and care

Borislava Peseva

Recognising and managing community-acquired pneumonia

Vanessa Gibson

Developing a social media platform for nurses

Jennifer Jackson, Maggie Kennedy

Effect of erectile dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment

Robert McConkey

How to perform chest compressions

Andrew Parry

Win: FunkyFobz anatomical heart fob watch

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Elliott Vincent, James Mullins

A united force can improve stroke care and recovery

Caroline Watkins

Is advocating natural remedies harmful or merely eccentric?

Gareth Phillips

Separate trusts are the weak link in the hospital chains proposal

Karen Chilver

We should not return to the days of a nursing ‘underclass’

Doreen Crawford

‘Hello’ campaign, out of the news but will never go out of style

Donato Tallo

‘Homecoming’ for children’s public health is no cause for celebration yet

Ros Godson

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

Margaret Paul

Change4Life drinks tracker

Layla Haidrani

Proactive Support of Labor: The Challenge of Normal Childbirth (Second edition)

Layla Lavallee

GUT: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-rated Organ

Anna Burrows

Working with Parents of Anxious Children:

Liz Mills

Starting out - Everyone should have a placement involving people with disabilities

Jemma O’Byrne

Workplace wisdom

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Monitoring the good and bad

Daniel Athey, Jane Brown, Craig Hopkins, Sarah Loughran

She’s out of line

David Newnham

The full monty

Jane Bates

Ask your experts

Heather Henry, Louise Brady

Voices - Revalidation is a chance to develop, so make the most of it, says Janet Finch

Janet Finch

A powerful new voice for nursing

Sophie Blakemore

It’s time to end the attack on nurses’ pay

Josie Irwin

Progress in pain management

Lynne Pearce

Menopause

Opioid addiction now more likely to originate from use of painkillers than from heroin

Not enough evidence to show Omega 3 supplements can help treat major depression

Consuming as little as two sweetened drinks every day raises men’s heart failure risk

Largest study to date on the genetics of common testicular cancer finds four new variants

Reproductive health factors associated with risk of death in women

Nurses face the fallout as junior doctors vote on unsocial hours pay

Erin Dean

Rio to Cape Town in aid of cancer care

Advocating self-care courses for diabetes patients ‘could cut costs’

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Healthcare assistants offer one-to-one dementia care

Community nurses ‘need career path’

Nurse directors struggle to balance cuts with ensuring service quality

Sophie Blakemore

Paris hospitals deny emergency failings

Public backs a pay rise for nurses, survey shows

Agency staff may lose money under new tax rules

NMC pledges to improve data-handling processes following security breaches

Challenging staff attitudes to restraint

Nurses and NHS to feel the pinch from shake-up in state pensions

Mary Griffin

We have to understand why it’s tough at the top

Graham Scott