On the evidence

Clean as a new pin

First steps

Simple solution

Long sighted

Voice of experience

Easing the pain

Reaching out

Getting in touch

Better place to be

No bars to good care

Independence day

Honey use in wound management

Sarah Jones

Complications associated with venous access devices:part one

Helen Hamilton

Complications associated with venous access devices: part one

Helen Hamilton

A structured learning programme for venepuncture and cannulation

Mary Collins, Sarah Phillips, Lisa Dougherty, Anne de Verteuil, Wendy Morris

Concordance with asthma medication: the nurse’s role

Karen Newell

Work to rule would only bring feelings of guilt

Stephen Hasker

Red cross is an integral part of dermatology package

Sheila Hannay

How can need for epidurals be determined in advance?

Janine Reynolds

Bursary and loan for studies leave me short-changed

Paula Morris

German dementia services offer a model for Britain

Constanze Gilbert

Military nurses benefit from armed forces pay rise

Jennie Dyson

Creativity might be handy when pay decision comes in

Stephen Weeks

Richard Branson could teach NHS managers a thing or two

Phil Christopher

The term ‘staff nurse’ may have originated in wartime

Moireach Harmer, Winchester

Nursing must know its history if it is to be worthy of professional status

Anthony Kinder

The arts in medical education a practical guide

Francis Biley

The Arts in Medical Education - A Practical Guide

Francis Biley

The royal Marsden hospital handbook of cancer chemotherapy

Sheila Cunningham

Managing the monstrous feminine regulating the reproductive body

Anne Stachurski

The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy

Sheila Cunningham

Managing the Monstrous Feminine - Regulating the Reproductive Body

Anne Stachurski

Voices-Real life tales shatter myths about disease and ethnicity, writes Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

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

Margaret Paul

Web wise

Liz Gormley-Fleming

Quality improvement cost me my job

Catherine Gleeson

Charitable view

Rosemary Cook

Substitute blood factories explored

Keith Nuthall, Monica Dobie

The wise and therefores…

Stephen Wright

Starting out it was aprivilege to comfort aseverely troubled patient

Outside in

David Newnham

Readers panel - Keep it in the family?

Frances Wheatley, Jane Brown, Duncan Clarkson, David Holyoake

Notice Board

Capital delivery

Sonia Shepherd

Support makes the difference for a quitter

Clean break

Carol Davis

Insecticides and childhood Leukaemia may be linked

Greater job control could reduce sickness absence rates

Older people suffer more chest injuries in motor vehicle crashes

Confusion about sensible drinking messages in the UK

Standing out from the crowd

Thelma Agnew

Tell dying patients the truth ‘to give them back their life’

Sarah Harrison

Films to boost African midwifery

News in brief

College defines senior roles prior to structural shake-up

Disappointment as hospital staff are excluded from anti-attack bill

Christian Duffin, Thelma Agnew

Nurses to question care funding decisions

Performance pay guidance released

Work on public holidays is not being rewarded

Starring roles for staff promoting NHS in Scotland

Benchmark will require nurses to prove they are promoting health

Sarah Harrison

Spread of fee-charging cash machines in hospitals causes concern for MPs

Rule changes increase mentors’ role in assessing student skills

Better by degrees

Registration fees could soar next year as NMC approves budget

Colin Parish

Vision and determination

Jean Gray