Me and my mentor

Lihua Wu

Time to take stock

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Notice board

Finding something to smile about

Jakki Weaden

Education in overdrive

Benny Goodman

Healthy diet and older people

Michelle Cowan

Practice-based assessment: strategies for mentors

Bob Price

Euthanasia: the legal issues

Chris Chaloner, Karen Sanders

Effectiveness and safety of restraint and breakaway techniques in a psychiatric intensive care unit

John Southcott, Allison Howard

Evidence is on our side to fight for specialist posts

Laura Charteris

Footballers’ support should be accepted with humility

Charlie Spencer

We have been successful in meeting nutritional needs

Donna Wilson

There are two patients to consider in every abortion

Sally Jones

A heartbreaking waste of talent and skills

Sam Driver

Nursing home scenario was unrealistic

Don Aston

Detained asylum seekers are victims, not offenders

Jan Harvey

Laurie Pavitt: putting the record straight

Peter Wildsmith

Patronising attitude spoiled my NHS induction course

Pam Regan

Why is there so much controversy about Mary Seacole’s memorial?

James Smith

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

Margaret Paul

Caring for the Perioperative Patient

Jane Brown

Talking Back to OCD: The Program that Helps Kids and Teens Say ‘No Way’ - and Parents Say ‘Way to Go’

Mike Lehane

Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing

Heather Dale

Webwise

Liz Gormley-Fleming

OutsideIn - Fancy a brisk walk? Researchers could be watching, warns David Newnham

David Newnham

Patients are our best allies

Janet Smith

Keep it in check

Jane Bates

‘You just do what the doctor tells you’

Zeba Arif

In praise of worship

Peter carter has some nursing advice for tony blair’s successor

Peter Carter

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Where do we draw the line?

Scott Justice, Mike Lehane, Carol Singleton, Jane Brown

Starting out - An orthopaedic placement helped heal my fear of cancer

Gemma Wallis

Standing firm

Sally Gooch

Caring for children at home

Carol Davis

A life change for the better

Carol Davis

Self-perceived measures of sleep and the risk of injury

Neck/shoulder pain increases as result of major life events

Warning signs on the road to violence at virginia Tech

Repeat bone mineral density measures do not predict fracture

‘If there are no lecturers, who will do the teaching?’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Top ten ‘essential’ skills performed inadequately

Paperwork and targets come before compassion, nurses admit

Colin Parish

ITU patients endure higher levels of anxiety and depression

News in brief

Nurse-led screening improves TB detection

Designated mobile phone areas allowed

Nightingale honoured on nurses’ day

Council withdraws proposal to ban gifts

Mandatory training in ‘sexual boundaries’ for all professionals

Colin Parish

Unions hold ‘council of war’ to decide industrial action strategy

Colin Parish

Ancillary workers expected to join pay review body

Fewer males and black africans get on to courses

Intermittent checks may stop suicides

Bulgarians face new trial

More than 1,000 UK nurses on benefit as jobless figures climb

Tamsin Snow

Footballers stand by nurses

Sensible give and take

Jean Gray