Bronchodilators: implications for nursing practice

Sue Jordan, Jean White

Vaccination in older people

Diana Steimle, Robert Aston, Pierre Van Damme

Length of stay in community hospitals

Nicky Brooks

Dorothy Katherine Rinkel MBE

Can professional nurses really be this petty?

Theatre nurses welcome Beverly Malone

Kate Woodhead

University of Leeds: a correction

Let's dump the elitism surrounding care

Catherine Shawarby

Find out why so many nurses are being struck off

Kathleen Svea Manning

Testing on animals is unreliable and unethical

R Dallender

Acute medical emergencies

James A Miller

Clean sweep on training

Greta Thornbory

Pick of the week

What's on: the best of the week's health-related TV and radio

God knows

Jennifer Percival

Crisis of confidence

Outside in

David Newnham

Genuine caring

Pat Turner

Ask the experts

Think ahead

Fiona Mitchell

Standard life

Daniel Allen

...and it's personal

Brid Hehir, Brendan McMahon, Karla Buswell

Maybe baby

How did I do?

Mike Lehane

Pioneering practice

Alison Moore

Breath of fresh air

Catharine Sadler

Forced to leave my job

Bully at work

Lynne Pearce

Statistical assault

Christian Duffin

Inhaled insulin effective and well tolerated

Parents happy with delayed antibiotics in otitis media

Corneal transplant risk of HSV-1 transmission

A weekly round-up of the latest research and scientific reports from the nursing and medical journals

Labour of love

Drive to stop discrimination

Mind calls for tighter rules on ECT consent

At-risk patients should be monitored more closely

Colin Parish

Russia and Tunisia offer to ease recruitment crisis

Bill Poult

Came for a laugh

EU move to recognise qualifications

On the move

Rent increase prompts action

How will the bursary increase affect students?

Unison slams the RCN for supporting bursary status

Graham Scott

Breast still best say midwives

Success rates vary between intermediate care units

Christian Duffin

Pregnant teens should eat beans

£1,000 hello for returners

Bullying forces nurses to quit the health service

Colin Parish

Nurses ‘shocked’ after hospital arrest

Evidence-based care a long way off

Moves to lighten GPs' workload

A&E staff get go-ahead for limited industrial action

Nick Lipley

Gang feud spills into hospital

Family values

Hygiene training is soon forgotten

News in brief

Face up to your mental health prejudices

Verbal harassment

Linda Thomas