Be ready for your 15 minutes

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Tips for working with journalists

Beyond the emergency

Liz Lees

Notice board

Face up to responsibility

Judy Bothamley

Communication in palliative care

The physiological effects of ageing on the activities of living

Alistair Farley, Ella McLafferty, Charles Hendry

Two-layer compression hosiery for patients with venous leg ulceration

Sarah Ham, Jacqui Padmore

Assessment and management of patients with surgical cavity wounds

Fiona Murphy

Meeting the nutritional needs of patients with dementia in hospital

Carole Archibald

How can you smile when you are being abused?

John Allen

A smile can work wonders, even in an oncology unit

Alison Sampson

Power will lie with control of primary care budgets

Margaret Charteris

We should not fall for the prime minister’s empty words

Martin Seaton

Cavalier attitude to nurses’ pensions is no real surprise

Helen Moulton

Research is devalued by lack of precise information

Gillian Dyer

What hope is there if carers abuse vulnerable patients?

Betty Churchill

Nursing’s patron saint can offer real inspiration

Nancy Howard

We need to take charge of information technology

Clare Marsh

From grade g charge nurse to pay protection on band six

Paul Taylor

Direct entry to community care has left me isolated and unsupported

Transforming practice through clinical education, professional supervision and mentoring

Colin Rees

Patient-centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

Heather Skirton

Transforming Practice Through Clinical Education, Professional Supervision and Mentoring

Colin Rees

From Silence to Voice - What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

Betty Kershaw

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

Margaret Paul

Patient-centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

Heather Skirlon

From silence to voice – what nurses know and must communicate to the public

Betty Kershaw

Webwise

Sue Jordan

Against the grain

Jane Bates

When did I get to be an old man?

Stephen Wright

Hazards of modem life

Mike Lehane

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Voices

Elizabeth Anionwu

Starting out-Diagnosis without explanation can cause needless anxiety

Henry Donaghy

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel-Sick and tired of the critics

Sue Szczepanska, Brendan McMahon, Steve Flatt, Bríd Hehir

All for one

Elizabeth Lynch

Caring for the children

Robyn Cross, Jason Warriner, ST Thomas’

Women are the answer

Young women at high risk of depression after heart attack

Social eating benefits quality of life for nursing home residents

Calcium and dairy foods result in lower blood pressure

Oral chelation therapy for chronic iron overload

Will RCN headquarters be sold to wipe out the pensions deficit?

Colin Parish

In good council

Christian Duffin

News in berif

Unions join forces to lobby against NHS reforms

One-to-one ratios for intensive care babies will not be mandatory

Christian Duffin

Flagship enterprise set for October start date

Nurses deemed ‘essential’ to commissioning

Online training to tackle violence

Report critical of trusts’ failure to manage agency staff numbers

Colin Parish

NHS chief selection panel lacks nursing voice

MPs call for increased resources to avoid ‘needless deaths’ from stroke

Colin Parish, Bill Doult

Nurse-led skin biopsies eliminate waiting time

Pressure on nurses to run clinics beyond their level of competence

Peer scheme boosts skills in prescribing

Unions worried by lack of progress on regulation of healthcare assistants

Mixed reaction from profession as nurses’regulation is reviewed

Changes ‘may force rise in nmc fees’

Nurses invited to have their say on plans

Common standards should be used, even if they are not easy to identify

Employers could take charge of revalidation in NMC shake-up

Colin Parish

New help to beat addictions

A report that must be read

Jean Gray