Chronic plaque psoriasis: an overview

Karina Jackson

Protecting nurses: a forensic perspective from crime scene to court

Ian Pepper, Suzanne Brompton

Nutritional product use and practice in nursing and residential homes

Michaela Barr, Molly Kane

Let’s not be hoodwinked into losing special duty pay

Lynn Robertson

Private rooms offer many advantages over wards

Sally Taber

No short cut to protecting your back

Sithembile Senga

I know how racist talk makes people feel

Mwidimi Ndosi

RCN council chair’s resignation is unfair

Gordon Lees

Don’t forget about the isolated nurses

Ben Nutbourne

Stop extra shift work before an all-out strike

Paul Canning Bedford

No second chances for violent patients

E Ward Portsmouth

Two jobs just to keep me in the black

Katie Eardley

When matron ruled

Laurence Dopson

Intensive Care Aftercare

Annie Chellel

What exactly is a school nurse worth?

Woody Caan

Outside in

David Newnham

The ultimate chilled-out nurse

Nick Hinchliffe

A free thinker

June Clark

Single and proud

Trish Osbaldeston

Step back in time

Jane Bates

Ask the experts

Face the muzak

Tim Turner

On closer investigation

Penelope Tan

The ‘why’ to live

Jennifer Percival

Research notes

Mary Cooke

Readers panel

Moyra Baldwin, Graham Houghton, Linda Payne

What’s it worth

James Buchan

Standard life - The ancient and mysterious wizardry of clinical grading finally combusts

Daniel Allen Rmn

Your dream ticket

Jane Redfern Jones

Situations vacant: US nursing opportunities

Robert O’Connor

Designed with you in mind

Lynne Pearce

You’ve got to laugh

Warding off the sceptics

Christian Duffin

A measure of success

Seamus Ward

Aspirin but not heparin reduces stroke mortality

High levels of anger a risk for cardiovascular disease

Recirculated air on planes not more likely to cause cold

Agreement needed on skills required at walk-in centres

On the move

Nurse-led type 2 diabetes groups may come to UK

Christian Duffin

Hospital ships look to nurses for support

News in brief

Trust settles in chemical injury case

Genetics will shape cancer treatment

Patient education reduces cancer-related pain scores

Colin Parish

Former chair to remain on RCN council

HCAs ‘do no harm, but regulation is inevitable’

Nick Lipley

Nurse 2002 category award winners announced

Minister’s response is ‘an insult’

Undervalued future

Placements to be audited

Trusts are using students as care assistants

Students devastated by classmates who bully

Chief executive is ‘horrified’ by blunder

Compensation for red-tape delays

News In brief

NMC to discuss plans for a shake-up of the register

Pat Healy, Nick Lipley

Numbers on nursing degree courses rise

Threat to agencies from NHS Professionals’ unpaid bills

Christian Duffin

Milburn continues to dodge the question

Nursing’s Paxman determined to get answers

Time to focus on HCAs

Jean Gray