Grief and its manifestations

Kathleen Dunne

The healing of amputation wounds

Trudie Young

Benchmarking and wound care in A&E

Fiona Burton

Causes and management of leg and foot ulcers

Georgina Casey

Nurse specialists in breast care: a developing role

Karen Burnet, Dawn Chapman, Gordon Wishart, Anand Purushotham

Supported discharge for patients with COPD

Margaret Barnett

Outside In

David Newnham

Inconvenienced by changes

Dave French

Employers must ensure latex safety

Jane Stone

Latex is a serious health issue

Kate Bayes

Invest in cleaners to beat superbugs

Paul Kulyn

Correction

My role is public protection

Susan Aitkenhead

Bring back in-house training

Joanne Brown

No one cares about master’s courses

Organ donors tested for brain death

Sue Fahey

Community Healthcare Nursing: frameworks for practice

Owen Barr

Drug calculations for nurses

Francis Biley

Knowledge: the key to consent

Romuladus Azuine

Nurses must be supported in the battle against hospital infections

Starting Out - Helen O’Flanagan finds her former boss is her first patient

Helen O’Flanagan

Protect your future

Janet Smith

Power phrases

Jennifer Percival

We may need more nurses, but we cannot train them all at the same time

Sharon Dennis

Research notes

Paula Roberts

Readers panel

Chris Mayer, Jane Scullion, Roger Cowell, Steve Flatt

Au revoir but not good bye

Jane Bates

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Lasting damage

Elizabeth Lynch

Take a little more time

Colin Parish, Lynne Wallis

Battling to beat the bugs

Sarah Harrison

A certain ‘go-get’ attitude

Eating soya foods offers protection against cancer

Nearly half of people with osteoarthritis use supplements

Boosting vitamin levels with breakfast cereals

In-school psychotherapy for adolescent depression

Health checks get the hard sell

NHS Direct works to improve access

Pay deal is chance to raise profile

Natural alternative offers hope on sleep disorders

Felicity Waters

On the move

Assisted dying law challenged

Pledge to improve health and social care integration

Paul Dinsdale

Outrage at Libyan death penalty

Mobile alarms aid pill compliance

Cut price tickets for shakespeare

Call to lower English language pass mark

Comments invited on the ideal chief nursing officer

Sarah Harrison

Hats off for a right royal reception

Review of drug use

Patient death leads to blue litmus ban

Crackdown ordered on public sector sick leave

Thelma Agnew

Audit tool launched to stamp out MRSA

A change of scene for the Hollidays

Students find it hard to secure jobs

Christian Duffin

News in Brief

Shipman is no reason to derail nurse prescribing

Christian Duffin

Disease cards come up trumps

The jobs crisis is not over

Jean Gray