A matter of fact

Sarah Zanoni

Effective communication with older people

Linda Miller

Using heat therapy for pain management

Anne Chandler, Joanne Preece, Sara Lister

Mental health and spiritual care

Ian Thompson

Outside in

David Newnham

Confusion caused by blister packs can be dangerous

Janet Wilson

Nursing home staff are an undervalued asset

Kirsty Mackenzie

Role switching sounds good in theory only

Susan Steward

Male nurses are appreciated

Julie Spurgeon

Does research on nurse dissatisfaction help?

Drugs are not the solution to mental health problems

Phil Barker

We need to breed student nurses to be leaders

Bethann Siviter

Offering patients cigarettes is against NHS policy

John Bickerstaff

Compulsory degrees will block more potential nurses

Adrian Presland

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

Margaret Paul

In support of the facts

Nigel Wellman

Evidence in Mental Health Care

Nigel Wellman

The Pocket Guide to the NHS

Wendy Boothroyd

Weights and measures

James Buchan

And so to bed

Deborah Ralph

Starting out

Jacqueline Stanway

Research notes

Senga Steel

Lessons learned

Linda Payne, Linda Drake, Mark Robinson, Moyra Baldwin, Christopher Mayer

Next steps in parliament

Beverly Malone

Permission to panic?

Zita McGregor

Great debate

Phil Barker

Prescribing: the

Kevin Gournay

You are a nurse – so let me hear you roar

Daniel Allen

The go-between

Charlotte Alderman

Making history

Gene genies

Alison Moore

Learning from experience

Sally Gooch

The hard cell

Robert Reford

What to do if a complaint is made against you

Helen Caulfield

Nurse investigator

Alison Moore

Facing the ombudsman

Baseline blood pressure in stroke and thrombolysis

A good night’s sleep helps prevent infectious illness

Chronic skin conditions respond to antidepressant

GI complications of NSAIDs reduced with celecoxib

NI plans depend on recruitment

Memorial for barbara fawkes

On the move

Kader Parahoo, Linda Watterson, Carolyn Taylor, Penelope Mace, Yvonne McKeown

‘see and treat’ initiative could fail at peak times

Nick Lipley, Colin Parish

Vaccine update

NHS professionals bans staff from other agencies

Colin Parish

Nurses may be exempt from new EU work rule

News in brief

Call for better communication on criminals

Banning abusive patients ‘time consuming’

NHS urged to upgrade training against violence

Compulsory insurance threat over

Christmas cheer

News In brief

Private work nets £1.4m for primary care trust

Paul Dinsdale

Boredom hits NHS Direct call workers

Oxygen treatment helps wounds

Police investigate patient deaths

Prime minister says parity could be eight years away

Pat Healy

Poor teamwork a factor in deaths

Pat Healy

Higher wages lure UK nurses abroad

Genetics focus: new roles for nurses

Global forces at work

Jean Gray