Student life - How to practise effectively

Mandy Day-Calder

Noticeboard

‘I left the NHS to start a business’

Sally Shaw

Tips for smart leaders

Alison Moore

Healthy sleep

Sue Wrigglesworth

Managing resources and reducing waste in healthcare settings

Virginia Minogue, Bill Wells

Assessment and accountability: part 1 – assessment

Trish Houghton

How to insert a nasogastric tube and check gastric position at the bedside

Carolyn Best

Tweets of the week

Government needs to address needs of dying at home patients

Drew Payne

Changes to the nursing associate role are no panacea

Grant Byrne

Reality of pay rise gives little scope for celebration

Lynne Parker

Awards event is the tip of the outstanding care iceberg

Caroline Shuldham

Call for support to ensure campaign is a roaring success

Anthony Johnson

Hunt fiddles with his phone, while nurse education bursaries burn

Danielle Tiplady

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

Margaret Paul

Shift Calendar app

Layla Haidrani

Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness

Jennifer Percival

Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe

Janice Logan

People with Dementia Speak Out

Sue Paxton

Starting out - What do you do when a trip to the loo is anything but bog standard?

Holly Morgan Phillips

Workplace wisdom

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Justifiable levels of protest

Drew Payne, Pete Hawkins, Jane Brown, Clare Donaldson

Tell us a story

David Newnham

A load of bull

Jane Bates

Cultural shift

Heather Henry

Voices - Finally, proof revalidation is not the nightmare many feared, says Janet Finch

Dame Janet Finch

‘Welsh uprising’ gave nurses a true voice

Lynne Pearce

Inspirational nurses making a difference

Alison Whyte

How art helps patient care and recovery

Erin Dean

Controlled drugs

Long-term use of aspirin linked to reduced risk of developing bile duct cancer

Protein research offers hope of potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment

Scientists discover the factor which puts type 2 diabetes into remission following surgery

Parents believe better primary care avoids the need for trips to emergency departments

Greater chance of hip replacement failure in last decade, study says

Nursing’s first revalidators give the process an early vote of confidence

Alistair Kleebauer

BBC calls in nurse specialist to advise on breast cancer storyline

Poor discharge planning causes huge rise in adverse incidents

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Bowel surgery recovery scheme proves a success

Local cancer plan aims to save lives

The spirit of Crimea lives on in trust’s sculpture

Changing demands of health care require extended nursing roles

Chris Longhurst

Get a grip on nurse supply, MPs tell health bodies

Patients say they notice when staff are under stress

The case for a new nursing associate role fails to convince students

Dementia champion is NI nurse of the year

NHS England framework unveiled, with focus on new ways of working

Chris Longhurst

New framework should be given a fair chance

Graham Scott