Veiled communication

Zeba Arif

Notice board

Working together, learning together

Helena Priest, Paula Roberts

Timeless nursing values

Benny Goodman

Biological aspects of ageing

Nicola Davies

Management of patients with advanced liver cirrhosis

Suzanne Sargent

Management of patients with advanced liver cirrhosis

Suzanne Sargent

Traceable calibration for blood pressure and temperature monitoring

Colin Mackechnie, Robert Simpson

Using the Extended PLISSIT model to address sexual healthcare needs

Bridget Taylor, Sally Davis

Flimsy curtains do not make the ward round confidential

Paul Billingham

Replacing nurses with care assistants is about profit

Frances Wheatley

Malignant melanoma article ignored tumours in the eye

Catherine Knox

Charge the weekend binge drinkers via inland revenue

Donald Connor

All staff should be included in practice-based commissioning

Florence Cantle

The bursary scheme is a great help – and tax free

Hannah Hamilton

The NHS needs nurses at all levels – not just graduates

Hazel Courtney

Why penalise senior nurses with unsocial hours pay?

Yvonne Sinclair

Bring back the registered mental health nurse

Paul Illingworth

Cash-starved NHS forced to squeeze money out of specialist equipment

Lei Foster

Bursary means it is harder to get on diploma courses

Katie Todd

RCN response to review of regulation clarified

Alison Kitson

Dynamic psychotherapy explained – second edition

Peter Hadwin

Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained - Second edition

Peter Hadwin

Arthritis – improve your health, ease pain and live life to the full

Sarah Ryan

Nursing practice – hospital and home: the adult – third edition

Jane Brown

Arthritis - Improve Your Health, Ease Pain and Live Life to the Full

Sarah Ryan

Nursing Practice - Hospital and Home: The Adult - Third edition

Jane Brown

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Colin Parish

The science bit

Monica Dobie

Voices

Sharon Dennis

Look at your face values

Stephen Wright

Students kept in the loop

Tony Paget

Outsidein

David Newnham

Tired, thirsty, ignored: life in an NHS clinic

Stuart Skyte

On message

Jane Bates

Starting out - Battling a stomach bug gives me an idea of how patients feel

Angela Leeper

Standard life Forget school nurses, step forward

Daniel Allen

Readers Panel

Julie Walden, Chris Barber, Julie Harrison, Paul Jebb

Freedom pass

Alison Moore

I became dad’s army

Joy Persaud

Cycle helmet use by children drops in time after law change

Lung function declines quicker in highly hostile people

Women who take vitamin supplements lead healthier lives

Consent for complementary therapies on hospital wards

Influenza pandemic statistics provide wake-up call to healthcare workers

Mike Hayward

Mental health groups set to fight new legislation

Elected NMC members ensure ‘a fair process’ for self-regulation

Chorus of approval for singing therapy

Changes to alert notices system fail to placate critics

High court rules care standards act compromises nurses’ rights

James Brewster

New strategy targets traditional values

Unique skills ‘at risk’ if Scotland adopts community nurse model

Jennifer Trueland

News in brief

Scrutiny for matrons working outside hospitals

One flew over the cuckoo’s nest: life imitates art in abuse case

Trainees of 1940s quizzed about rice pudding

NHS staff council to assess equality in new pay scheme

Senior staff least satisfied with Afc bands

RCN to advise review body that morale has reached all-time low

Colin Parish

NMC proposal to double fees is a ‘tax on nursing jobs’, say unions

Petra Kendall-Raynor

You are star people

Nurses have rights too

Tim Madge