Walk-in operating theatre

Research power

Ann McMahon

Good placement guide

Sam Windsor

Nutritional support in hospital

Blackaby Hannah

An overview of female voiding dysfunction

Wendy Naish

Post-micturition dribble in men: causes and treatment

John Robinson

Pulse oximetry

Rachel Booker

An approach to obtaining informed consent from patients with cancer

Anne Croudass, Cathryn Hughes, Heather Phillips, Kim Tye

Teaching nurses the ‘human touch’ is a waste of money

Vanessa Stapleton

Description of jaw thrust puts thumbs in wrong place

Bill MacDonald

Always be on the look out for new ways of learning

Varvara Vlachava

It is important to be open to every opportunity

Sarane O’Connor

Sedation controls are no substitute for training

Paula Gardiner

We cannot let soap operas wash their hands of this

Carolyn Waldron

Pressing need for investment in health visiting profession

Kevin Coyne

Sure start centres give parents essential support

Mary MacLeod

Healthcare assistants are part of the team

Sally McCornack

With easter presents like this, i need an unstaged, double figure pay rise

Gordon Lees

The Foundations of Primary Care: Daring to be Different

Stephen Callaghan

Water and Health in an Overcrowded World

Marion Birch

Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice – Systematic Reviews

Irene Mabbott

Parking the car? No problem. Changing the duvet? No way!

David Newnham

Humour belongs in the workplace

Mike Lehane

Small is beautiful when it comes to fostering healthy attendance records

Daniel Allen

Reader Panel - Tackling obesity with pills

Janet Smith, Alison Crumbie, Virginia Radcliffe, Linda Drake

Starting out - I learned that dignity is about listening to the patient

Helen Lavelle

Horror show

Jane Bates

Against the odds

Anne Watkinson

The media’s handling of ‘troubled’ stars has gone too far

Sharon Dennis

‘Claire led the team using her advocacy and diplomatic skills’

Faith Gibson

Talk it through

Claire Westwood

Winning confidence

A serious ethical dilemma

Alison Whyte

Depression stays longer with older women than men

Cigarette smoke protects children of parents with atopy

Drugs and vaccine reduce herpes in HIV-positive children

Incentives and disincentives to pursuing higher education

Nest eggs are safe but new pension scheme puts a squeeze on wallets

Community team’s drip stand design attracts interest from RAF

Health declaration reconsidered

NHS workforce planning body in Wales found to be ߢunder-poweredߣ

New advertising policy meaningless statistics

Tamsin Snow

Government to rethink stoma costs

Nurse MPs divided over embryo bill

FA to offer advice on mental health benefits of football

RCN proposals could lead to cuts in the number of nursing advisers

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

Average NHS pension is just £5,063 a year

2008 award winners

Nurse of the year finalists invited to downing street

NMC performance review starts

Pay report is ready for government

Comic relief study aims to reveal the true extent of elder abuse

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Attackers avoid sanction

Eleventh-hour update to NMC code after unions raise alarm

Colin Parish

Pay is cure for itchy feet

Jean Gray