Encouraging reflection and critical thinking in practice

Adrienne Price

Systematic observation of hand decontamination

Dinah Gould

Benefits of pre-operative information programmes

Sharon Garretson

Outside In

David Newnham

The cuddly side of infection control

Cindy Hopkins

Correction: resuscitation

Matrons brought a sense of pride

Sheila Taylor

Happy to talk about sex

Viv Bradford

Pension cuts by the back door

Karen Chilver

Thank you for your praise

Mat O’Connor

Placement planning would pay off

V Elcock

Double standards

Elizabeth Robb

Separate storage can cut drug errors

An Introduction to Practice Nursing: the Fulcrum of Primary Care

Suzanne Powell

Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney model in practice

Cherill Scott

An Introduction to Practice Nursing: the Fulcrum of Primary Care

Suzanne Powell

Update of a classic nursing model

Cherill Scott

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

Cherill Scott

Promoting children’s health is a job for us all

Sarah Mullally

Lend a friendly ear

Jennifer Percival

On the receiving end

Jane Bates

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel

Julie Walden, Linda Drake, Mat O’Connor, Kate Chapman

The science bit

Lynne Pearce

No bars to learning

Elaine Jefford, Kerry Fretton, Daniella Bartlett, Vanessa Davis, Jean May

Little wonders

Zoë Hannah White

Heat of the night

Frances Wheatley

Making of a midwife

Sally Sivas

In at the birth

Thelma Agnew

A potent cocktail

Karen Hughes, Mark Beilis, Jim McVeigh, Rod Thomson

‘I will prove my innocence’

Thelma Agnew

Sorry, no vacancies

Sarah Harrison

Facial acne is not improved significantly by laser therapy

Pellet injuries are common during paintball games

Enteral feeding in pancreatitis leads to better outcomes

Mortality increased in those with age-related eye disease

Pioneer for black nurses dies, aged 76

Abusers of adults to go on register

Standards aim to fill gaps in diabetes care across UK

Thelma Agnew

Nurse phoneline berated over trivial A&E referrals

Kay Smith

A&E mental health care ‘shambolic’

Legal action over SARS protection

Nurses face wait for guidance on needle injuries

Call for inquiry into UK’s worst superbug hospital

Minorities miss out on mentors

Uniform maker claims breakthrough on MRSA

Paul Dinsdale

Call for greater prescribing powers in sexual health

Paul Dinsdale, Christian Duffin

Criticism prompts major Code of Conduct review

Florence’s owl was a real hoot

Pornography caution may be overturned

News in brief

Victory for Northern Ireland midwives

Thousands to be trained in child protection skills

Christian Duffin

Fairer complaints process launched

Stick it up, this is a campaign

Quarter violence of nurses endured at work last year

Thelma Agnew

Pay deal stalls on unsocial hours

Guidance on teensexual health

Most hospitals will breach law on doctors’ hours

Snapshot of NHS views

Jean Gray