Student life - The way we used to be

Anita Fatchett

In the ReD: diabetes and renal specialists

Notice board

Working towards independence

Catherine Sadler

Make yourself heard

Kathy Oxtoby

Stigma

Anita Skinner

Understanding attitudes and their effects on nursing practice

Bob Price

Enabling sexual expression in people with dementia

Jane Youell

Education for healthcare clinical support workers

Robin Lewis, Shona Kelly

How to perform basic life support

Melanie Rushton, Mike Barker

Win: Heart Failure and Palliative Care

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Kerri-Ann Kelly, Lisa Tidmarsh, Diana Branch

Revalidation rules are clear for most, but not for the exceptions

John Adams

All-graduate profession ignores the talent that is available to us

Theresa Brennan

A photo of an empty classroom might sum up nursing’s future

Zeba Arif

Opponents of funding changes are fighting for a failing system

June Clark

Bursary means more to nursing students than just money

Nicky Oliver

Food for thought, but we won’t fix climate while meat is on the menu

Mark Hammonds

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

Margaret Paul

Beat Panic app

Layla Haidrani

Great Myths of Aging

Gary Mitchell

Excellence in Dementia Care: Research into Practice (Second edition)

Dave Pulsford

The Practical Pocket Guide to History Taking and Clinical Examination (Second edition)

Jennie Bradford

Starting out - Being in a patient’s home helped me understand the story of their life

Aleksandra Gawlik

Workplace wisdom

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Has abuse become the norm?

Linda Drake, Mark Pittman, Sarah Loughran, Steve Flatt

Coining it a bit

David Newnham

Seasonal perils

Jane Bates

Public health alert

Rod Thomson

Voices - A Mary Seacole statue will be an inspiration to nurses, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Blowing the whistle on bad practice

Alison Moore

From out of reach to back in the loop

Vic Motune

Use staff wisely to save NHS money

Alison Moore

Childhood arthritis

Better to get your message across, when you’re using rhymes to emboss

Smokers take more time off work than non-smokers, Spanish survey reveals

A framework for nursing home care helps develop students’ working ways

Does patient experience have an influence on clinical commissioning?

Watch who you mix with at the Christmas and New Year parties

New self-screening tool aims to put patients in control of their nutrition

Clare Lomas

News in brief

Lack of dysphagia knowledge among stroke-trained nurses

Safety alert over risks in restraint

Healthcare staff praised for their efforts after severe floods

Lung cancer specialist nurses ‘too much of a luxury’ for some trusts

Petra Kendall-Raynor

‘Take a hard look at your trust’s equality record’

CNO uses summit to share vision for profession’s new ‘triple aim’

Stephanie Jones-Berry, Sophie Blakemore

Scale of FGM shows importance of safeguarding

How the kindness of a nurse can change a life

NHS England chief calls for more ‘flexible’ permanent nursing roles

Hunt admits it was wrong to slash nurse training

Anger at plans to scrap bursaries grows as protests secure debate

Chris Longhurst

Foreign nurses need help to adapt to UK hospitals

RCN weighs in on Northern Ireland pay dispute

Plans for associate nurse role move ahead despite warnings from RCN

Bursary-v-loans battle is a chance for change

Graham Scott