Sign for success

Kathryn Sharples

First step on career ladder

Janet Richards

Star performance

Marion Janner

Assessment strategies

Donna Christison

Care and management of adolescents with mental health problems and disorders

Jane Davies, Michelle Huws-Thomas

Safe transfusion of blood and blood components

Alexandra Gray, Kathleen Hearnshaw, Caroline Izatt, Marcia Kirwan, Shirley Murray, Karen Shreeve

Nurse-led pre-operative assessment for elective surgical patients

Amanda Beck

Corrections

Avoidance of alcohol is best advice for pregnant women

Jayne Thomas

It is vital that nurses keep up to date with first aid

Gillian James

The monthly off-duty battle could easily be avoided

Dawn Paddock

Whatever happened t0 equal pay for equal work?

Alison Pennock

Embarrassed and saddened by the low ballot turnout

Gemma Campbell

I am laughing so hard at NHS decisions i could almost cry

Sian Davies

Unions will be selling out if they accept this offer

Sarah Foy

Fee ‘sweetener’ is no substitute for a pay rise

Sue Stockdale

Beware of using relatives as interpreters

Zeba Arif

Can Shakespeare help us to understand nursing?

Colin Rees

Mental health nurses may not be cult specialists but we can still help

Colin King

Peripheral Vision

Paul Sayer

Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System - Successes, Failures, Lessons

Sharon Levy

Learning Disabilities - Towards Inclusion: Fifth edition

Eric Broussine

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Karen Elcock

Qualified this year, but no nursing job

Talc can shrink lung tumours

Monica Dobie

Starting out - It was easy to misinterpret a loving wife’s brusque manner

Amy Cray

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Dying to give? Talk about it

Kate Tantam, Roger Cowell, Graham Houghton, Jane Scullion

Toast to toast

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - David Newnham shares some of the wrinkles he bought second-hand

David Newnham

Can you teach it?

Sandra Mackey, Linda Goddard, Paul Warner

Voices

Rosemary Cook

Notice board

HIV disaster

Lynne Wallis

United we stand

Carol Davis

Maternal alcohol intake linked to leukaemia in childhood

Smell test might predict later mild cognitive impairment

Vancomycin treatment of choice in severe C. difficile diarrhoea

Prescribers need to be aware of clients’ cultural, dietary and religious practices

Community nurses lack information to manage patients with addictions

Sarah Harrison

Ready for new era in mental health

Laura Doherty

See, smell... then feel better

GP practice charged patients for test drinks it was given for free

Tamsin Snow

Survey reveals some staff fear acting on elder abuse suspicions

Sarah Harrison

News In brief

Midwives reject Cameron claim that service is inferior

Cleared Katrina nurses are awaiting outcome of civil lawsuits

Political parties to debate NHS staff morale

DH secures delay in 2008 pay evidence timetable

Moving down under becomes easier

Three-day strike called over suspension

1,200 unemployed nurses register for support to find elusive first job

Colin Parish

U-turn on executive nurse role

PCT loses health visitors but pays £360,000 for consultancy review

Tamsin Snow

Stand up for older people

Jean Gray