Student life - Your fellows need you

Tamsin Lillie

Noticeboard

A Cinderella service no more?

Pauline Houchin

Sun, fun and nursing

Erin Dean

Patient-centred care

Robin Hooks

Management and treatment options for patients with open abdomen

Kurinchi Gurusamy, Brian Davidson

Evaluation of a PICC care training programme

Ashutosh Purran, Gordon Weller, Catherine Kerr

Applying for ethical approval for research: the main issues

Leslie Gelling

How to perform first aid

Annabella Satu Gloster, Phillip John Johnson

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Gemma Homer, Bev Bates, Vasanti D’Hooghe

Turn our backs on the doctors and we should expect to be next

Drew Payne

Employing more nurses is the only way to ensure patient safety

Susan Osborne

Senior nurses be aware: cynicism saps colleagues’ enthusiasm

Donato Tallo

Better management, not more money, should be the new mantra

Michael Owen

Funding cuts will be felt in perinatal mental health care

Cheryll Adams

Without a scientific process, the NHS will never get the workforce it needs

Kevin Davies

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

Margaret Paul

Pregnancy CaPl app

Layla Haidrani

Dementia, Culture and Ethnicity: Issues for All

Gary Mitchell

Compassionate Person-Centred Care for the Dying: An Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide for Nurses

Helen Reeves

Chronic Disease Management: A New Paradigm for Care

Jane Scullion

Starting out - More knowledge about dementia will give nurses vital resilience

Chrissy Dargue

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - Counting the cost of care

Kate Tantam, Daniel Athey, Jane Scullion, Grace Vanterpool

A listening ear

David Newnham

Care for a fig?

Jane Bates

Caught in Catch-22

Heather Henry

Voices - Exciting challenges are in store for nurses in 2016, says Janet Finch

Janet Finch

Towards a better understanding

Lynne Pearce

So you want to meet Elvis?

Lynne Pearce

Changing the realities of poverty in pregnancy

Lynne Pearce

Discharge planning

A Postgraduate's Guide to doing a Literature Review

Certain antidepressants may increase the risk of mania and bipolar disorder episodes

Smokers can have problems conceiving and experience the menopause earlier

Some survivors of breast cancer are at higher risk of therapy-related leukaemia

Many toddlers are adept at mastering the use of smartphones and tablets

Emergency departments need more staff at night and in early morning

Is the nursing associate role an innovation or a step backwards?

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Better mental health care is top of group’s wish list

Tool will identify fatigue in carers

Poor pay forcing Northern Ireland nurses to moonlight across the UK

Linsey Wynton, Alistair Kleebauer

Chief nurse to take up national whistleblowing role

Community welcomes chief nurse

More than 10,000 empty nursing posts among NHS trusts in London

Stephanie Jones-Berry, Alistair Kleebauer

Overseas recruitment under review as demand continues to increase

Call for exposure of research on safe staffing

College highlights the crucial role of matrons

‘Ministers should make it easier to become a nurse, not harder’

Thousands show their solidarity in the battle to save bursaries

Chris Longhurst

This is what excellent care homes look like

Graham Scott