Promoting continence

Alison Bardsley

Nutrition support in palliative care

Chris Eberhardie

Nursing knowledge: defining new boundaries

Sharon Edwards

Nurse practitioner training in breast examination

Dawn Chapman, Arnie Purushotham, Gordon Wishart

Obituary winifred hector

Laurence Dopson

Outside in

David Newnham

Dealing with bullies: how to survive on the wards

Mark Baker Merseyside

Do congress delegates have to watch what they say?

Pippa McNickleSt Albans

Filipino nurses deserve fairand honest treatment

Manuel Pamiloza

The reward should match the skills and responsibility

Jane Macpherson

Don’t forget power of attorney in your exit file

Jane Reynolds Barnsley

‘Free labour’ attitude will scare students off

Bethann Siviter

Evidence based practice manual for nurses

Vlachonikolis Ioannis

What Works in Reducing Domestic Violence

Greta McGough

Putting research into practice

Vlachonikolis Ioannis

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

As good as new

Terry Philpot

Ask the experts

Stress busting

Sue Sammons

Where did people’s trust go?

Richard Wilson

Life without the cover

Caroline Flint

‘The journey from cradle to grave can be pitifully short and desperate ’

Linda Thomas

Friends in high places

Peter Cross

Safety in numbers?

Bethann Siviter, Jane Scullion, Paul Jebb, Christopher Humm

Research notes

Rachel Norman

A team effort

Stuart Cable, Anne Eaton

Skills measure

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Modern, but not matrons

JO Carlowe

Keep the faith

Julia Mekwa

First of many

Sharing the burden

Lynne Pearce

It’s a waiting game

Paul Dinsdale

Hand lacerations heal well when treated conservatively

Better to wait and see in childhood haemangioma

Ginkgo does not improve adults’ mental functioning

Agent for ovarian cancer has better toxicity profile

Suicide strategy would save nurses’ lives

New laws in Scotland set good example

You are what you eat

NMC says mental health plans ‘put nurses at risk’

Pat Healy

Health workers overlook shaken baby syndrome

Christian Duffin

Top employee sleeps on the job

£2.8m army bid to attract more nurses

On the move

Nurse clinic for STI treatment

Support for degrees to replace diplomas

Social services ‘reducing bandings’ to save money

Pat Healy

Anya’s story of hope

News in brief

Demand for stroke units

Research into flu pandemic

Nurse plans legal action over record check delay

Christian Duffin

Index of morale to be monitored

Nurses make a flying start

Compete to attract staff urges Malone

Geroge Castledine

Undergrading is driving out nurses, RCN claims

Adele Waters

London pay threatens rest of the UK, conference told

Adele Waters

Helpline to combat exploitation

No sick days for spanish recruits

Call for nurses to perform early abortions

A hitchhiker’s guide to NHS staff morale

Lessons in retaining nurses

Jean Gray