Student life - How to find a career path that suits you

Nicola Davies

Noticeboard

Compassion takes commitment

Michael Clift

Try to keep a calm head

Kathy Oxtoby

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rose Gallacher

An overview of nuclear medicine imaging procedures

Peter Hogg, Richard Lawson

Managing a patient with COPD and comorbidities: a case study

Rachel Lucy Mitten

Non-pharmacological approaches to alleviate distress in dementia care

Gary Mitchell, Joanne Agnelli

How to examine an eye

Janet Marsden

Win: End of Life Care

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Marianne Blake, Dana Rose Pouncey, Val Radmore, Bryoni Alice

Study fund can help open eyes and minds to working abroad

June Clark

Nursing services will suffer in short-sighted public health cut

Rod Thomson

Unsocial hours pay cuts have implications far into the future

Mike Travis

Time for nurses to drop the victim mentality and realise our worth

Zeba Arif

The big unanswered questions surrounding revalidation

Antoinette Bewley

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

Margaret Paul

Yellow Alert app

Layla Haidrani

The Patient Experience: The Importance of Care, Communication and Compassion in the Hospital Room

Paul Jebb

Health Intervention Research: Understanding Research Design & Methods

Cathy Hughes

Living Better with Dementia: Good Practice and Innovation for the Future

Michelle Parker

Starting out - Introducing myself helped improve patients’ experience and wellbeing

Emily Wardman

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - Someone to share the load

Jane Brown, Florence Winterflood, Daniel Athey, Stephanie Cumming

A burning issue

David Newnham

Ghost busting

Jane Bates

Diversity challenge

Heather Caudle

Voices - Forget ‘quick fixes’ and follow the US lead on staff says Susan Osborne

Susan Osborne

A strategy to put nurses in the driving seat

Get on your bike to boost sustainability

Jennifer Trueland

An alliance for action on climate change

Anne Marie Rafferty, Robin Stott, Nick Watts

Smoking and pregnancy

Computer-assisted CBT packages fail to relieve patients with depression

More research is needed to understand why ethnicity is a factor in IVF success

Central obesity increases risk of death even in people with a normal body mass index

There is insufficient evidence to support use of marijuana as a therapy in rheumatic disease

Alteration in sense of humour might be a signal of dementia

Under pressure – why the nurse director’s job can feel so thankless

Sophie Blakemore

Social media campaign exposes reliance on parents for skilled care

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Welsh nurse rewarded for stroke service

News in brief

Scotland considers using Dutch-style home care

Graduates could face £50,000 debts

Nurses can help prevent suicides

PHE seeks to boost numbers of ‘antibiotic guardians’ to 100,000

Christian Duffin, Mary Griffin

Nurse of the year sets domestic abuse agenda

Profession falls behind in pay rise comparison

Tell the story of your achievements to support the RCN’s fair pay campaign

Nurse’s boots go on display as icon of the battle against Ebola

NHS staff urged to speak up about assault as acute care attacks rise

Chris Longhurst

We can be a global force for good health

Janet Snell