Movers and shakers

Paul Dinsdale

Having it all

Alison Jenkins

Notice board

Be ready for anything

Sally Seaman

Learning disabilities

Nicola Davies

Use of epidural analgesia in post-operative pain management

Caroline Weetman, Wendy Allison

Use of epidural analgesia in post-operative pain management

Caroline Weetman, Wendy Allison

Prompting ‘what if’ thinking among students

Promoting hydration in patients with dementia in healthcare settings

Carole Archibald

Reliability and validity in research

Paula Roberts, Helena Priest, Michael Traynor

Learning zone correction

Military personnel are expected to ‘tough it out’

Terry Gordano

Presence of a chaperone is comforting for the patient

Sasha McLaughlin

Three years’ hard slog and debts for nothing

Teresa Singleton

Moved to tears by an act of kindness at the end of life

Lorraine Leighton

Small caring gesture of touch can have a big effect

Kirsten Jack

If nurses do not get involved, others will get ‘it’ wrong

Sharon Levy

My son has changed the way i feel about my job

Debbie Gilmore

Help to build the software programs for patient records

Moireach Harmer

‘Smile, and the whole world smiles with you’ is spot on

Jane Madden

I don’t suppose doctors have to grin and bear it too

Jamie Lee

We are being told to smile more at work, but this is often inappropriate

Margot Collings

WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children – Guidelines for the anagement of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources

Heather Dale

Caesarean Birth in Britain – A Book for Health Professionals and Parents:Second edition

Dinah Gould

Doctoral Education in Nursing - International Perspectives

Clare Bennett

WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children - Guidelines for the Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources

Heather Dale

Caesarean Birth in Britain - A Book for Health Professionals and Parents: Second edition

Dinah Gould

Standard life

Daniel Allen

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

Margaret Paul

Doctoral Education in Nursing – International Perspectives

Clare Bennett

Webwise

Marc Cornock

Trying patients

Jane Bates

Outside in - BMI data? worried father weighs up the possibilities for David Newnham

David Newnham

Beyond beds, bricks and mortar

Gill Morgan

Starting out - A patient treated with dignity and humanity in her last few hours

Karen Lamb

Nurse Holden is back

Jan Holden

Voices - Guidance and research on sleep are always useful for nurses, says Linda Thomas

Linda Thomas

Get plugged in

Dame June

Readers panel – Use IT or lose it?

Jane Brown, Frances Wheatley, Dean-David Holyoake, Duncan Clarkson, Sue Szczepanska

An end to rotavirus misery

Vicki Madden

Sowing seeeds of hope

Mark Goldring

Home-made success

Catharine Sadler

Coffee may reduce cardiac deaths in older women

High prevalence of rhinitis in the Belgian population About three quarters of people

Patients treated with anti-TNF at increased risk of malignancies

Colour recognition of bile vomiting in the newborn

Making nursing visible

Howard Catton

Job guarantee for Irish graduates

College urges Home Office to reverse overseas recruitment ban

Sarah Harrison

A float with pride

News In brief

Rcn may close final salary staff pensions

Nurses asked to assess care for people with learning disabilities

Sarah Harrison

‘I was made to go without food’

Public to be updated on IT project

Call for newly qualified nurses to be allowed directly into primary care

Tamsin Snow

Health service ‘facing hike in legal bills’

Insist on commissioning role, nurses urged

Extra study may be needed before admission to prescribing course

Guidelines planned to help trusts adapt to Equality Act obligations

Advice on caring for vulnerable patient groups

‘NHS would fall to bits without you,’ PM tells nurses

Public pay rises still falling short of private sector

One local pay system remains

Most foundation trusts opting to stay with ‘robust’ Agenda for Change

Colin Parish

Amicus to raise jobs crisis with Hewitt

Staff transferred out of NHS will lose pension rights, Blair confirms

By Bill Doult, Colin Parish

Nurses at centre of change

Jean Gray