Student life - Handling work pressure

Mandy Day-Calder

Noticeboard

Bank nursing: a flexible option

Erin Dean

Lessons from rejection

Dean Gurden

Agitation

Clair Salt

Medicines optimisation: priorities and challenges

Gerri Kaufman

Exploring assistant practitioners’ views of their role and training

Hilary Bungay, Jo Jackson, Sue Lord

Supported decision making: the rights of people with dementia

Amanda Keeling

How to perform a tracheostomy dressing and inner cannula change

Nicola Credland

Win: Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Natalie D, Marie Rogers, Angie Bristow

One legacy of Lord Briggs is the value placed on nurse research

John Adams

The profession needs to come together like never before

Howard Catton

Let’s hope new transparency puts paid to quick-fix blame culture

Beverley Marriott

Accentuate the positives to attract nurses of the future

Joe Somerville

We need to promote nursing as a profession to which men will aspire

Edwin Chamanga

Removing rancour in examining mistakes would be new for the NHS

Marc Cornock

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

Margaret Paul

NHS Scotland NEWS and Sepsis Screening Tool app

Layla Haidrani

Moving and Handling Patients At a Glance

Kelly Norris

Nurse Burnout: Overcoming Stress in Nursing

Jane Fisher

Interacting or Interfering? Improving Interactions in The Early Years

Caroline Ridley

Starting out - Facing my fear showed that nursing was the right career choice for me

Jason Jeffery

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - The truth about staff errors

Sue Grave, Jane Brown, Craig Hopkins, Mike Wallis

Cereal offender

David Newnham

The name game

Jane Bates

A job for the boys

Grant Byrne

Voices - Invest now if district nurse numbers are to add up, says Crystal Oldman

Crystal Oldman

A good way to die

Jennifer Trueland

Final lessons from road-testing revalidation

Alison Moore

Motor neurone disease

Over six cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis

Strong association between 11 year olds drinking alcohol and mothers’ drinking habits

Paediatricians in primary care could increase early diagnosis rates of cancer in children

Breast cancer patients have fewer long-term side effects after partial radiotherapy

Cannabis use increases risk of hospital stay after psychotic episode

The NHS needs you – and it has to work harder than ever to keep you

Christian Duffin

Taking palliative care to patients

QNI survey reveals jump in district nurse training numbers won’t last

Louise Hunt

Plans for mental health discharge

News in brief

Patients Association film shows pressures on healthcare staff

Leadership style has influence on staff retention

Ebola nurses given standing ovation after talking about their experiences

RCN wales reveals its first nursing education strategy

Breaking down barriers for BME staff ‘is everyone’s responsibility’

Stephanie Jones-Berry

American hospital puts patients in the driving seat

Cumbrian heart centre set to benefit from sale of donated dairy cow

Nurse associate role should not be used to replace nurses, unions say

Erin Dean

Patients need a strong voice in how NHS is run

Graham Scott