Student life - Open for discussion

Jane Dundas

My work is unique

Noticeboard

Feeling the pressure at work

Kathy Oxtoby

A specialty in crisis

Carol Davis

Stigmatised patients

Rose Gallacher

Helping patients to learn about self-management

Bob Price

Evaluating the VERA framework for communication

Dave Hawkes, David Hingley, Stephen Wood, Amanda Blackhall

Measuring patient dependency in the emergency department

Gary Jones

How to perform a urinalysis

Alison Bardsley

Win: Medisave Nursing Pack

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on our Facebook page…

Suzi Jones, Jamie Copeland, Samantha Hughes, Gail Wilshaw

Ambulance services have come a long way, but targets haven’t

Kevin Davies

Be careful what you wish for from study into staff numbers

James Smith

Talent spotting works for football, so why not the NHS?

Donato Tallo

Disparity in student training leads to inconsistent skills

Dana Rose

Nurses should address the need for extra eye-care support

Nick Pryce

We must take action against plans to ‘modernise’ pay and conditions

Gareth Phillips

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

Margaret Paul

Ready Steady Baby!

Grant Byrne

Pain is Really Strange

Karin Cannons

Art Therapy with Physical Conditions

Rosemary Strange

Lost Hospitals of London

John Adams

Starting out - Atrial fibrillation incident proved the value of taking pulse manually

Emily Dickinson

Best defence is preparation

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - A subject hidden from view

Sarah-Louise Flowers, Grant Byrne, Mark Pittman, Parveen Ali

Smooth delivery

David Newnham

IT? Not for me

Jane Bates

Shocking statistics

Judith Ellis

Voices - Nurses can engage with young people to improve care, says Viv Bennett

Viv Bennett

Feel-good factor of a healthy workforce

Lynne Pearce

When fear becomes the barrier to care

Jennifer Trueland

End of life care

Lack of training is one of the biggest barriers to identifying cancer in children, say GPs

Healthy diet before pregnancy linked to lower risk of heart defects in babies at birth

Structured exercise during haemodialysis significantly improves physical capacity

Antibodies increase the risk of poor outcome for patients with autoimmune hepatitis

Teenagers who identify with ‘goth’ culture are more likely to self-harm

A testament to falling standards – or to greater transparency?

Academics draw up ten-point plan for pre-degree nursing scholarship

Christian Duffin

Students mark graduation day with lamp procession

News in brief

RCN issues guidance on pain assessment and management

Adoption of EU-wide nursing strategy

Cummings’ biggest challenge yet

Staffing issues must be addressed if health push is to succeed, says RCN

Sally Gillen

Call for personal health budgets ‘culture change’

Wanted: Your ideas for the next nursing strategy

A colourful approach to improving nutrition for people with dementia

Nurse attempts gruelling charity cycle ride

Trusts to cut back on agency costs as nursing staff spend gets capped

Mary Griffin, Alistair Kleebauer

Agency limits will only work if the cap fits

Graham Scott