Student life - How to foster better care for older people

Nicola Davies

Passion will follow after skills

Jane Redfern Jones

Noticeboard

Healthy staff provide better care

Alison Handley

Community concerns

Carol Davis

Spirituality

Trina Price

Patient-centred care: improving healthcare outcomes

Heather Gluyas

The role of practice development nurses in Malta

Elmira Petrova, Michelle Camilleri

How to administer inotropic drugs

Andrew Parry

Win: Research Skills for Nurses and Midwives

Tweets of the week

What you’re saying on Facebook...

Emma Smith, Buddug Roberts

Open Access We hope these tips will boost attendance at asthma reviews

Andrew Proctor

Could you spot someone who had been subject to trafficking?

Amanda Cheesley, Fiona Smith, Carmel Bagness

Improve physical wellbeing of people with learning disabilities

Michael Owen

If the NHS were to put its staff first, patient care would benefit

Donato Tallo

Pre-uni scholarships would identify students likely to stay the course

Grant Byrne

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

Margaret Paul

Prognosis: Cardiology

Grant Byrne

Acne: Causes and Practical Management

Victoria Lack

Communication & Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

Helen Reeves

A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Putting the Principles of the Act into Practice

Lynne Phair

Starting out - Placement in Spain helped me to learn the value of communication

Hannah Harkness

Question Marc

Marc Cornock

Readers panel - How to deal with criticism

Linda Drake, Liz Charalambous, Edwin Chamanga, Grant Byrne

Age of reason

David Newnham

A close call

Jane Bates

Support till the end

Adrienne Betteley

Voices - Yvonne Coghill says we do not always appreciate what we have in the NHS

Yvonne Coghill

Be prepared for revalidation

David Foster

How to tackle the taboos of FGM

Lynne Pearce

Cancer survivors inspire self-care plan

Elaine Cole

Diabetes

Increased odds of developing prediabetes found in past and present users of marijuana

Use of social media associated with poorer sleep quality and low self-esteem in teenagers

Call for more clarity on how patient safety should be monitored in primary care

Banning all trans fats in processed foods could save 7,000 lives over five years

Number of deaths linked to alcohol use is on the increase in the UK

Alarm bells raised over the effect of dehydration on nurses’ care

New kit bags help staff to treat sick children faster

Nurse leaders expected to emerge as a legacy of productive ward

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Cancer drugs dropped from ‘unsustainable’ fund list

Checks essential to licensing plans

‘Compassion fatigue in palliative nursing is due to understaffing’

Chris Longhurst

Brand is awarded high recognition

Hunt: 90% of nurses’ time should be at the bedside

MPs back change in law to tighten rules on strikes

Calling residents ‘love’ or ‘sweetie’ is okay, says care home rapped by CQC

Cecilia ‘humbled’ by award for excellence

Self-funded degrees on the rise as employers move to fill staffing gap

Petra Kendall-Raynor

‘Pay your own way’ places are no solution

Graham Scott