Anatomy of a nurse director

On the front line

Notice Board

A gentle art

Kerry Stott

Chronic kidney disease

Sarah Knowles

Recent advances in angina management: implications for nurses

Barbara Conway, Ahmet Fuat

Cardiovascular disease in women

Christopher Nicholson

Ethics in nursing: the way forward

Chris Chaloner

Capillary blood glucose monitoring

Maureen Wallymahmed

Long-distance commute brings family life into sharp focus

Paul Watson

Call for nurses to oppose ‘contempt for innocent life’

Jacqueline Hoar

Grammar school discouraged me from becoming a nurse

Sarah Carless

Why not embrace new ways of describing nurses?

Zeta Lewis

Talking to our employers would be better than action

Anne Piper, Kirkby, Cumbria

My daughter’s bruising led to a series of distressing incidents

Health visitors must remain alert to possible child abuse

Estelle Byers

American disabilities act makes life more difficult

Anne Jones

Gay health proposal compromises hard work

Drew Payne

Smiling in the face of cutbacks, redundancies and low staffing

Maria Georghiou

Webwise

Bob Price

Narrative Research in Nursing

Irene Mabbott

Sex in Cyberspace – Men Who Pay For Sex

Drew Payne

Ethnicity and Everyday Life

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Standard life - Chip implants may be fine for pets, but patients have rights, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Admin overload

Kate Chapman, Brendan McMahon, Steve Flatt, Sue Szczepanska

Starting out-the calmness and dignity of the last offices ritual impressed me

Karen Fallaize

Worried well

Jane Bates

Outsidein

David Newnham

Life blood

Richard Branson

Voices

Sharon Dennis

Deep in reflection

Christopher Johns

Evolution of scheme to protect mealtimes

Breakthrough leadership

Yvonne Coghill

Drive for success

Ian Green

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

Margaret Paul

Quiet period helps patients to rest

Teamwork is the vital ingredient

Reorganising the workload has paid off

Time to share

Nurses get to focus on patients

Second born twin at greater risk of death when born at term

Steroids prior to extubation reduce laryngeal oedema risk

Symptom index can predict women with ovarian cancer

Jet lag: the effects of sleep, melatonin and caffeine

Are health visitors working where they are most needed?

Keith Hurst

History of flu pandemics

Pandemic influenza:a daunting challenge for health services

Colin Parish

Personal stories inspire exhibition

Prisoners will be offered health training to help other inmates

Tamsin Snow

Brown to be lobbied on staff cuts

Leading midwives express outrage over treatment of asylum seeker

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Boost for nurse prescribers and attrition rates

In brief

Barnsley staff strike as trust prepares to downgrade jobs

Midwives call for ballot on industrial action over pay

Hundreds march in support of five bulgarian nurses

School nurses to train in exam stress

Survey reveals different attitudes to smokers and obese patients

Adele Waters

Government takes on the lords over detention

Doctors and ward rounds hinder protected mealtimes initiative

Adele Waters

A taste for change

Gray Jean