After words

Mat O’Connor

Keep in touch

Amy Wilkins

Notice board

Taking the fight to the streets

Lynne Wallis, Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Solve it

Colleen Wedderburn

Case study: getting past the confusion

Taking the fight to the streets

Lynne Wallis

Grief and bereavement

Astrid Willis

Haemodynamic monitoring: arterial catheters

Sharon Garretson

Haemodynamic monitoring: arterial catheters

Sharon Garretson

Assessing motivation and readiness to alter lifestyle behaviour

Emma Croghan

Using a competency based approach in nurse education

Amanda J. Fordham

Nudging patients into research is unethical

Claire Leathem

Care plans are a tool for better communication

M Paterson

Aqueous cream as emollient and a substitute for soap

Gail Sibley, Brown Allyson, Butcher Martin

General election battle is not just fought in england

Mhairi Will

RCN does not endorse the creation of a welsh academy

Beverly Malone

First aid formed part of my diploma curriculum

Daniel Griffith

Mental health review is a positive opportunity

Chris Beasley

We need ‘loud power’ to make ourselves heard

Rhiana Hughes

‘Quiet power’ in action and overcoming chronic pain

Sharon Blackman

Decrease in district nurse numbers means a worse service for patients

Maureen Brown

Developing Practical Nursing Skills

Rachael Rowe,

Developing practical nursing skills

Rachael Rowe

Health Care Ethics – Lessons from Intensive Care

Directions – A Guide to Key Documents in Health and Social Care 2004

Heather Skirton

Directions – A Guide to Key Documents in Health and Social Care 2004

Heather Skirton

Health Care Ethics – Lessons from Intensive Care

Peter Savage

Art for health’s sake

Jane Bates

Starting out - Diabetes care by non specialists must take a holistic approach

Steven Collis

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Alison Twycross

Agenda for change

Josie Irwin

A giant chocolate blancmange growing on David Newnham’s head has him quaking in fear

David Newnham

Look and learn

Judy McRae

Voices - A dirty work space makes it harder to nurse well, warns Chris Beasley

Chris Beasley

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Crossed wires

Zeba Arif

Readers panel-Baby alarm

Brid Hehir, Brendan McMahon, Sue Szczepanska, Steve Flatt

Going green

Alison Moore

Case study: community specialists

A labour of love

Carol Davies

Football players at increased risk of motor neurone disease

Prematurity and low weight are risk factors for readmission

Decaffeinated coffee reduces risk of rectal but not colon cancer

Transplants pave the way for freedom from insulin

The business of caring

Paul Dinsdale, Colin Parish

District nurse in line for award

Leadership programme will help prevent abuse of older people

Colin Parish

News in brief

£8,000 army lure fails

Suspended nurses feel by ‘indifferent’ union let down officials

Christian Duffin

Sticky end for grime in hospital clean-up

Parliament passes last minute bills

Health at top of agenda for older people

Election rules set for NHS staff

Parties put battle over hospital infections at centre of campaigns

Colin Parish

Act used to show ‘shocking’ care

Chief nurse defends mental health review

Ministers want nurses to they receive from drugs declare gifts companies

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

Pensions change of heart means fresh negotiations after election

Colin Parish

Single rooms boost morale

Sarah Harrison

Role of a lifetime

History in the making

Jean Gray