New NMC standards place more emphasis on community learning.

Pre-registration education standards to be introduced at the same time as the move to all-graduate entry into nursing were published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) last week.

Nursing and medical students benefit from training together.

Communication and respect between nursing and medical students improved when they were taught alongside each other on wards as part of a project to improve working relations.

Malnutrition screening essential for older patients, says age charity.

Nurses are being urged to screen all older patients at risk of malnutrition when they arrive in hospital and throughout their stay.

School nurses need training for complex mental health work.

Nearly half of school nurses have not received any post-registration training in mental health despite it being an essential part of their work, according to research.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of partnered research: revisiting the sequestration thesis and the role of universities in promoting social justice.

As universities increasingly rely on external sources of research funding, researchers worldwide are realizing that if their work is financially supported by organizations with distinct political or financial interests, they risk their careers if their results deviate from the interests of their funding partners. This article presents a case that illustrates how ugly this situation can become. Reviewing the literature on the advantages and dangers of partnered research, the historical role of universities, funding trends, and university mission statements, the authors contend that universities must engage in service learning and participatory action research, but must ensure that faculty members engaging in academic activity with partners-whether industry, hospitals, governments, nongovernmental organizations, or communities-have their professional integrity protected.

First aid for the laminitic foot: therapeutic and mechanical support.

The goals of mechanical treatment during the acute phase of laminitis are to preserve the lamellar interface by reducing the forces that are compromising its integrity and to make the horse more comfortable. Early decision making is important in managing acute laminitis. This article helps the practitioner to identify some of the commonly used and accepted methods of protecting the laminitic foot.

Erlotinib in combination with pemetrexed for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC): a phase I dose-finding study.

Background: Erlotinib and pemetrexed are approved single agents for second-line treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and, in combination, have shown synergistic antitumor activity in NSCLC cell lines. We investigated the safety, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of combined erlotinib-pemetrexed in patients with refractory advanced NSCLC.

Patients And Methods: A nonrandomized, open-label, phase IB study was performed in patients with advanced NSCLC whose disease had progressed on or following first-line chemotherapy with a platinum-containing regimen or for whom the erlotinib-pemetrexed combination was considered appropriate.

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What has changed for nurses since Labour came to power in 1997?

Commission report underlines the need to enhance ward leaders'role.

The prime minister's commission on the future of nursing and midwifery has called on the government and the NHS to strengthen nurse leadership at ward and board level.

Minister for nursing promises action group to implement commission's 'radical' findings.

A future Labour government would implement the recommendations of the prime minister's commission on the future of nursing, health minister Ann Keen has told Nursing Standard.

Mid Staffs: how to ensure the mistakes never happen again.

NHS organisations must learn from the tragedies that followed cuts in nursing jobs at Stafford Hospital according to England's chief nursing officer Dame Chris Beasley.