Stand out from the crowd

Steve Keyes

Of pharoahs and sphinxes

Sally Hubbard, Bryan Day

Career development

No problem too small

Pauline Stuttard

Acute wound closure

Jacqueline Kirsty Clarke

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Jackie Tough

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Jackie Tough

Advance statements: legal and ethical implications

Belen Matesanz Mateu

Advance statements:legal and ethical implications

Belen Matesanz Mateu

Using structured reflection on a critical incident to develop a professional portfolio

Carol Hilliard

Correction

Celebrity cleaners tell us a thing or two about mrsa

Lisa Scott

I may be lured away by the benefits of agency work

Alison McAndie

In death, as in life, patients deserve respect and dignity

Rita Doyle

Emptying commodes and washing patients are vital

Lynne Leys

I feel privileged and valued as a nursing assistant

Sally Ann Mitchell

Nominations sought for rcn fellowship awards

Tricia Harwood

Allowing HCAs to develop is good for patients and nurses

Wendy Tustian

Thanks, MR Blair, for wasting the past three years of my life

Penny Jones

Gloopy yoghurt, a sandwich and fruit on a day-glo tray

Cris Allen

Red trays for people at nutritional risk have boosted patient satisfaction

Lesley Taylor

‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’ - British and Irish Nurses in the Great War

Cherill Scott

‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’– British and Irish Nurses in the Great War

Manual of Smoking Cessation – A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Making Sense of Spirituality in Nursing and Health Care Practice - An Interactive Approach: Second edition

Thelma Gage

Making Sense of Spirituality in Nursing and Health Care Practice – An Interactive Approach: Second edition

Manual of Smoking Cessation - A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Kiera Jones

Voices - Our new voices columnist Rosemary Cook celebrates nurses’ courage

Rosemary Cook

Outside in

David Newnham

Who has the time for a break?

Zeba Arif

Back to basics

Jane Bates

Starting out - I learnt to adapt to different mentor-student relationships

Hannah McCall

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Yet another blow to salaries

Christopher Barber, Julie Harrison, Julie Walden, Paul Jebb

Love me tender

Stephen Wright, Jean Sayre-Adams

Bound to care

Chris Cox

Drivers of 4x4s less compliant with laws on mobile phone use

Diabetes triples risk of admission to a nursing home

Copper rather than steel surfaces for infection control

US nurses work too much and without enough rest

Staffing levels and a 65:35 skill mix

Adele Waters

Deprived areas are focus for intensive health visiting

Voice of nursing in primary care threatened by government review

Tamsin Snow

Foundation trusts for community services

Unions claim politics is driving cuts

News in brief

Damning report shows unequal care for people with disabilities

Tamsin Snow

Resignations after agency hires private eye to spy on nurse

Charities hit by cash-strapped trusts’ reluctance to fund specialist posts

Hobson’s choice for patients who need to travel

Nurses asked to join discrimination study

Take action on alcohol use in wales, says RCN

Staff value personnel role of nurse partners, independent study finds

Impact of NHS logistics strike played down

‘Broken leg taught me the value of nurses’

Raising standards – and fees – are priorities for new NMC president

Sarah Harrison

Leak reveals plan to axe 48 nurse specialists

RCN sets out safe staffing ratio to maintain skill mix

Adele Waters

Safety in numbers

Jean Gray