Get ready for the records switch

Christine Hutchinson, Tony Matthews, Christine Sharples

Pride and prejudice

Craig Strang

Notice board

An essential debriefing

Kath Sharples

Sexual health

Jeannette Richards

Chronic diarrhoea: investigation, treatment and nursing care

Chris Metcalf

Confidentiality in health care: conflicting legal and ethical issues

Maureen Beech

Post-operative pain management: transition from epidural to oral analgesia

Donna Brown, Olga O’Neill, Alexandra Beck

Correction

Mental health nurses face a hidden pay cut of £600 a year

Val Sharkey, Dumfries, Galloway

A more balanced approach to grading student assessments

Charlie Spencer

Nurses with HIV can make a valuable contribution

Take your nursing woes to the politicians

Ofrah Muflahi

Big brother has highlighted the truth about bullying

Richard Beauchamp

Let me know if you find a childminder who does nights

Victoria Aikins

Why are students in northern ireland treated differently?

Colette Leathem

Health visitor support varies greatly for new mothers

Adult training is still relevant to me after twenty years in paediatrics

Anthony Kinder

Webwise

John Thain

Nursing Calculations - Seventh edition

Gary Blatch

Nursing in Haematological Oncology - Second edition

Sheila Cunningham

Awareness and Influence in Health and Social Care - How You Can Really Make a Difference

Dame Betty Kershaw

The investigation

Margaret Paul

The science bit

Monica Dobie

Women suffer when men deny their feminine side

Stephen Wright

Readers panel-The class a drug conundrum

Graham Houghton, Roger Cowell, Jane Scullion, Esther Tanton

Panic response is bad news

Kath Melia

Off their trolley

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Voices

Rosemary Cook

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Starting out - Patient’s frank talk about death made me feel uncomfortable

Beth Heppleston

Patient-led care closer to home

Carol Davis

Men behaving badly

Carol Davis

Risk factors for premature death in women identified

Ambulance crews need guidance on risk for older people who fall

Preventing childhood vitamin D deficiency is cost-effective measure

When should antiretroviral therapy for HIV be started?

Time is running out for outdated services

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Hysterectomy ‘last option’ for heavy menstrual bleeding, says NICE

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Mercury risk for the unborn child exposed

Winter support for COPD patients

Cash-strapped NHS trust asks nurses to work for free

News In brief

Nurse 2007 finalists chosen

Inflation fuels 8,000 per cent pay rise demand

Nurse to head up largest NHS trust

Scottish boards move to deliver improved staffing level standards

Jennifer Trueland

Protest at trident base

‘Passionate people’ needed for major audit of learning disability services

Staff feel the pressure after trust stops using agencies

Government considers radical overhaul of education funding

Graham Scott, Paul Dinsdale

Cuts provoke vote for strike action

Shortage of jobs ‘is only temporary’

Tories guarantee more changing facilities

Nursing students trounce doctors in TV challenge

Nurses are most likely group to seek financial help from charity

Paul Dinsdale

Advance the support role

Gill Robertson