After words

Mat O’Connor

Placement prejudice

Pamela Bennie

Sound minds

Steven Walker

Placement prejudice

Pamela Bennie

Sound minds

Steven Walker

Career countdown

Redfern Jane Jones

Notice board

Career countdown

Jane Redfern Jones

Chronic pain

Margaret Henderson

Thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction

Jackie Tough

Thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction

Jackie Tough

Supporting lifestyle and health-related behaviour change

Emma Croghan

Transcranial magnetic stimulation for patients with depression

John Tredget, George Kirov, Emma Dunn

Understanding the arousal of anger: a patient-centred approach

Helen Hollinworth, Charlotte Clark, Rowena Harland, Linda Johnson, Gareth Partington

Understanding the arousal of anger:a patient-centred approach

Helen Hollinworth, Charlotte Clark, Rowena Harland, Linda Johnson, Gareth Partington

I am newly qualified – and already demoralised

We should not be held up as scapegoats for MRSA crisis

Judith Maxwell

New-look nursing standard is easier to read on the bus

Bhungani ka Mzolo

Trounce’s pharmacology is aimed at a nursing audience

Dinah Gould

Quiet power neglects to mention mental health nursing

David Harding-Price

We should be grateful to get any student bursary at all

Melanie Brisbourne

Wearing scrubs is best for safety, hygiene and comfort

Charlotte King

Save lives by teaching basic first aid in all schools

Tanya Akehurst de Visme

A bit of politeness would go a long way to improving our health service

Scott Justice

Bowel cancer: foundations for practice

Isabel White

Bowel Cancer: Foundations for Practice

Isabel White

Clinical Nursing Skills – DVD with Workbook

Annie Chellel

Practice Development in Nursing

Martin Ward

Practice development in nursing

Martin Ward

Clinical nursing skills – DVD with workbook

Annie Chellel

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Mike Hayward

Voices

Chris Beasley

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Have some foresight

Jane Bates

The most basic enquiry

Lynne Pearce

Agenda for change

Pam Truman

Double meaning

Marc Cornock

It’s all in the genes

Stephen Wright

Starting out A pleasant Greeting can reduce patient anxiety

Lynne Pennington

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel-Forcing the issue

Steve Flatt, Brid Hehir, Brendan McMahon, Sue Szczepanska

Everyone welcome

Carol Davis

Counting costs

Sean Page

Pointing the finger

Eileen Fursland

Cheerleaders most likely to injure ankles and wrists

Hand osteoarthritis has modest link with pain and disability

Quarter of women with breast cancer have long-term depression

Banning smoking in public spaces does not put children at greater risk from smoke at home

What next for the NHS pension scheme?

Colin Parish

Blunt messages and straight talk transform men’s health

Colin Parish

No change in law to curb violence

Three assaults in one year force nurse to give up her dream job

Nigel Burnham

News in brief

Pension talks cancelled as forum not ready

Lower pay would lead to a better class of nurse, claims economist

Colin Parish

Overseas nurse held back by red tape

Trusts pool ideas to cut agency costs

Call for greater transparency in care home costs and contracts

Graham Scott

Seacole commemorated

Smoking row drags on

Grim survey of mental health wards

Sarah Harrison

Government wants faster compensation

Patient relations threatened by ID card check

Opponents unite in fight against compulsory treatment orders

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

News

MRSA proposals are ‘unworkable’

Bill Doult, Sarah Harrison

No call for pay aspersions

Tim Madge