Student life - Management techniques

Mandy Day-Calder

Noticeboard

Attractions of the island life

Daloni Carlisle

Your path to research

Linda Milnes, Joanna Smith

Limb amputation

Balvinder Thiara

Understanding situation awareness and its importance in patient safety

Heather Gluyas, Sarah-Jane Harris

Limitations associated with managing chronic low back pain

Paul Beland

How to inform relatives and loved ones of a patient’s death

Mags Guest

Protected training time is essential for patient safety

Wendy Reid

Nurses need to stand together to denounce this cruel government

Karen Chilver

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Emma Hall, Nadine Falconer

Did you start your training at Barts in London 40 years ago?

Carole (née Gell) Knott

We should embrace revalidation and use it to improve our practice

Donato Tallo

Nursing research’s ivory tower was knocked down long ago

Susan Read

NHS workers should heed warnings of history and unite against government

Mike Travis

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

Margaret Paul

Mental Illness: Facts app

Layla Haidrani

From Light to Dark: The Story of Blind Dave Heeley

Anne Boyle

Fundamental Care: A Person-Centred Approach

Liz Allibone

Deprivation of Liberty: Collected Guidance

Marc Cornock

Starting out - Patient experience showed me that empowerment works both ways

Jenny Lea

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Nurses take on out of hours

Joe Somerville, Linda Drake, Jane Brown, Rachel Kent

Alive and kicking

David Newnham

Sweet salvation

Jane Bates

End to claims culture

Ed Fletcher

Voices - Viv Bennett says all nurses can educate, prevent and be ‘antibiotic guardians’

Viv Bennett

Paper-free, quick and safer

Daloni Carlisle

Breathing new life into asthma care

Nick Evans

From a ward sister to award winner

Lynne Pearce

Pleural care revolutionary

Elaine Cole

Post-operative pain

Specialist nurse support for patients with COPD cuts unscheduled acute admissions

Children aged four and five with poor eyesight found to have lower levels of literacy

Drug used for controlling blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes linked to bladder cancer risk

Gum disease associated with cognitive decline in people who have Alzheimer’s disease

Women more likely than men to be prescribed particular antibiotics

Why a dual career in research and practice is the road less travelled

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Tattooists urged to spot warning signs

NICE guidance tackles complexities of prescribing controlled drugs

Louise Hunt

Quit smoking help for people with mental health problems

Mental health network launched

News in brief

Stroke survivors play to their strengths

Snapshot survey shines a light on how hard nurses are working

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurses urged to unite to fight for safe staffing levels

Unions organise lobby over plan to replace bursary

Unison Scotland defends NHS Tayside’s failure to correct 2010 payroll error

Nurses defend bursary as thousands march against austerity

New strategy planned to boost nurse numbers in general practice

Linsey Wynton

Let’s empower practice nurses to improve care

Graham Scott