Beneath the surface

Jill Daniels

The management of obesity

Sandra Drummond

Feeding patients after abdominal surgery

Joy Field, Kristine Bjarnason

Providing culturally competent health services for ethnic minorities

Kathy Sienko

Male identity in mental health nursing

Dean-David Holyoake

Outside in

Nursing rules should not be made by civil servants

James Fisher

Book review

Nurses must put patients first, pay second

Amy Buxton

Special duty payments are the fair way to pay nurses

Angela Perkins

Stop whingeing and think about our public image

Dennis Martin

We need encouragement for our efforts not ridicule

Julie Davies

We work for half of what a healthcare assistant gets

Donna Cantrell

Laugh - we almost missed out on £2.83

Theresa Kirkaldy, Susan Gales, Caroline Groocock

Working for the NHS made me ill

Foundations of Nursing Practice

James Miller

Ethics, Management and Mythology

Alice Kiger

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

Foundations of Nursing Practice

James Miller

People suffering from a disease for which there is no cure just want to know that someone is trying to find one

Linda Thomas

Stress-beating strategies

Happy days

Kate Randall, Sara Hall

Ask the experts

How I lost my fear of cancer

Frances Portman

Under orders

Jane Bates

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Readers Panel - An emergency call

Brendon McMahon, Karla Buswell, David Mellors, Brid Hehir

Standard life - Is it just me or is nursing somehow stuck in the 1980s?

Daniel Allen

Open your mind

Stephen Wright

Out in the cold

Hazel Heath

Birth rights

Terry Philpot

Lines of defence

Lawrence Cohen

Turns around the clock

Adele Waters

Essential skills

Paul Dinsdale

Old blood increases the risk of infection after trauma

Pyloric stenosis responds to treatment with atropine

Eating nuts might reduce risks of fatal arrhythmias

Alcohol and development of type 2 diabetes

Fellowships for nurse research

Key skills in outpatients role

Acute services restructure not workable, says RCN

Christian Duffin

Staff protest over sectarian threats

On the move

Blood pressure readings by nurses ‘more reliable’

Colin Parish

Closure threat from nursing homes

New doctorate course created

Legionnaire’s staff coping well

News in brief

Court grants suspension review

District nurses draw up plan for changing roles

Paul Dinsdale

Junior doctors want help’ to improve practical skills

Colin Parish

NHS life in BBC documentary

£1.3m to fund professional development

Domestic abuse probe rejected

Former army barracks may be housing option

DoH names agencies on its ethical recruitment list

Paul Dinsdale

First class to Neverland please

US shortages hurting patients

Staff to get day off, as three-star bonus

Eyes down on the wards

Leadership training online

Stop treating us like ‘nice little girls’, says Malone

Adele Waters

A helping hand for new medical colleagues

Yet another quick fix

Tim Madge