The peripherally inserted central catheter

Peter Philpot, Vivien Griffiths

Telemedicine in educational settings

Heather Newton

Pressure ulcer risk: audit findings

Debra Bick, Fiona Stephens

Post-operative wound infections

Antigone Michalopoulos, Loukas Sparos

An essential care course for healthcare assistants

Linda Field, Barbara Smith

Outside in

David Newnham

American ERs are chaotic but nurses do their best

Scott Mullaney

Healthcare assistants deserve to become nurses

Kent Payne

Ageism prevents me fulfilling my potential

Did you help a man injured in gran canaria in 2001?

Liverpool Guy

Denied work because of mental illness stigma

Veronica Burton

Minimum nurse-patient ratios are essential

David Barrett

Desperate tactics reinforce ‘nurse as angel’ image

Joanne Fone

Impossible to compare nurses with checkout staff

Jayne Greenop

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Beating Stress in the NHS

Greta Thombory

Guide with one foot in the past

Francis Biley

Essentials of Nursing Care

Francis Biley

The alternative british library

Ross Scrivener

School’s out

Christopher Mayer

Starting out - Tracey Mitchener was surprised by her own reaction to a client

Tracey Mitchener

Teenage kicks

Elizabeth Farrow

On speaking terms

Catharine Arakelian

All you need to know

Paul Jebb

Smoking out the smokers

Linda Thomas

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Put the records straight

Sue Szczepanska, Chris Buswell, Frances White, Michael Baptiste

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Narrow escape

Jane Bates

Primary concern

Elizabeth Lynch

Made to measure

Kay Smith

Nurses in Africa are at the front line of the worst pandemic the world has ever seen. Colin Parish reports

Nurses speak out on AIDS

A continent under

Colin Parish

Platinum-based combination therapy for bladder cancer

Intravenous tubing could be a hazard for children

Alternative to hormones for treatment of hot flushes

Gum disease link with BMI in cardiovascular disease

News in brief

Staff confiscate weapons in Iraq

Competencies will tackle shortage of MS specialists

Keith Cooper

Bad practice discovered by infection control nurse

Keith Cooper

‘Wash your hands please, nurse’

Give patients a bigger say

MP to carry on campaign for safer needles

Vaccine scare prompts warning

Foundation row to rumble on

Nurses reluctant to take on junior doctors’ tasks

Sarah Harrison

African nurses targeted in HIV drug project

On the move

Older patients missing out on nutritional drinks

Keith Cooper

Cash boost for scottish training

Scheme cuts A&E waiting times for many

Mailshot highlights poor pay in scotland

Cultural change is key to better care, says think-tank

Sarah Harrison

Welsh staffing crisis could leave gaps in acute care

Colin Parish

Nurses to write repeat scripts

Bullied nurse wins £32,000

RCN leader honoured

Governor tackles strike

Men’s clinics look behind the statistics

Future health workers

Jean Gray