Student life - Make your voice heard

Mandy Day-Calder

Noticeboard

Expanding skills and experience

Daloni Carlisle

Make the right choice

Dean Gurden

Constipation

Sharon Stewart

Rosacea: clinical features and treatment

Isabel Lavers

Human factors and the death of a child in hospital: a case review

Heather Gluyas, Emily Michelle Hookham

Nurses’ attitudes towards patients hospitalised for self-harm

Kimberley Hodgson

How to alleviate perineal pain following an episiotomy

Mary Steen, Bernie Cummins

Win: How to Develop Your Healthcare Career

From Facebook

Joseph Saint Wood, Drew Payne

Where were nurses’ protests against cruel benefits cuts?

Zeba Arif

Health promotion is an area of practice that is often neglected

Genevieve Elliott

Shareholder-driven private providers discredit the NHS

Karen Chilver

Tweets of the week

Pay is now so behind, it’s time to take a leaf out of the junior doctors’ book

Dougie Lockhart

Assaults on staff should never be tolerated by management

Emma Marie Hughes

It is essential to address the low status of nursing in health care

Mike Travis

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

Margaret Paul

Quit for You Quit for Two app

Layla Haidrani

ERS | Monograph – Controversies in COPD

Emma Vincent

Clinical Pocket Reference for Nurses (Third Edition)

Alison Bardsley

Spiritual Care with Sick Children and Young People

Alison Finch

Starting out - Collaboration and experience as a carer improved my understanding

Sophie Taylor

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Are nurses ready to revalidate?

Daniel Athey, Linda Drake, Liz Charalambous, Drew Payne

Loud and proud

David Newnham

Beds unblocked

Jane Bates

A change for the better

Jackie Smith

Voices - Janet Davies reflects on a century of change for nurses and the RCN

Janet Davies

Afraid of revalidation? Let us put you at ease

Alison Moore

10 things you need to do for revalidation

Alison Moore

Domestic violence

New mothers in UK leave hospital sooner than women elsewhere in developed world

Women’s weight and men’s height can affect chances of a professional, prosperous life

High white blood cell ratio linked to recurrent risk in early-stage breast cancer

Changes in bacteria in the gut could help early diagnosis of diabetes, twins study reveals

‘Difficult’ patients distract doctors from correct diagnoses

Nurses may fall at revalidation’s first hurdle without CPD support

Stephanie Jones-Berry

‘Never events’ manual published

Type 2 diabetes programme allows nurses to refer those patients at risk

Linsey Wynton

NICE ruling widens cancer drug access

News in brief

Welsh partnership extends end of life care at home

‘Nurses for Hillary’ in US presidency

DH told to fix UK personnel shortfall while non-EU staff can plug the gap

Linsey Wynton

Early birds prove revalidation success, says NMC

Queen’s nurses to benefit from 90th birthday proceeds

Trial pilots will replace out-of-hours doctors with nurse practitioners

Revalidation ‘doomed to fail’ if staff receive no support for CPD

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Improving access to CPD is absolutely vital

Graham Scott