Prove your worth

Kofi Kramo

Lymphoedema

Rebecca Penzer

Improving patient hand hygiene

Deborah Ward

Chronic fatigue syndrome: the nurse’s role

Elizabeth Aylett, Tonks N Fawcett

No time to look after patients’ flowers

Louise Perry

It’s not the flowers that are bringing in the germs

Janie Macleod

Nurses play a key role in vital mobile medical units

Mike Hayward

Thank you to those who have shown me support

Peggy Pryer

The real definition of our profession is quite simple

Gary Marshall

Nurses must speak out more about their salaries

Debbie Duncan

Communication with deaf adults needs improvement

Dominic McGuinness

Nurses with degrees will want to leave profession

Mark Savage

Degrees are important professional currency for equality

Best Practice: A Guide to Excellence in Nursing

Stella Backhouse

Essential reading for prescribers

Sally Mansfield

How Drugs Work Basic Pharmacology for Healthcare Professionals

Sally Mansfield

Outside in

David Newnham

A bad idea, by definition

Alex McClimens

Right to relief

John Gristwood

If you want something done, ask a nurse

Sharon Dennis

Health care on the piste

Christopher Mayer

A little knowledge

Lorna Macnamara

Starting out

Sheree Hall

Research notes

Mary Cooke

Readers panel - Academic Aspirations

Karla Buswell, Jane Scullion, Christopher Mayer, Moyra Baldwin

In at the deep

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Meet the flying eye

Tim Madge

Soul survivors

Donating identity

Carol Wilson

Bring on the substitutes

Colin Parish

Non-dairy protein intake in women with renal problems

Food supplements to aid weight loss have dangers

Model to predict mortality in severely burned children

People with diabetes have poorer prognosis after stroke

Students warned over attitude to older clients

Key to cuts in corned beef tin injuries

Take a deep breath

Nurse-to-patient ratios set to become law in states

Graham Scott

Protection has failed for a third of whistleblowers

Christian Duffin

Washing away infections

On the move

News in brief

Tuition fees would deter student recruits, says RCN

Colin Parish

Empty beds in home for nurses In brief

Blooming marvellous

Culture shift at ashworth

Gulf personnel to be monitored for ill health

GP-based mental health nurse cuts waiting times

Chris Bowles

Project will save the NHS ‘£18m’

Nurses celebrate nightingale’s legacy

Nmc decisions on abuse cases may be overruled

Christian Duffin

Overseas applications to register are soaring

Seacole memorial

NHS improving slowly

Managers deny poaching plans

Sarah Harrison

…for the NHS and consumers of corned beef

Positive news at last…

Jean Gray