Opportunity knocks

Alice Faure Walker, Leona McHugh

Just a minute

Student life: Knowledge in hand

Joanne Hardy

Post-operative pain

Lisa Scott

Infusion therapy part one: minimising the risks

Janice Gabriel

Delivering intravenous therapy in the community setting

O’Hanlon Sue, Ruth Glenn, Belinda Hazler

Monitoring pulse rate

Karen Rawlings-Anderson, Janet Hunter

Impact of national policy on the health of people seeking asylum

Claire Joels

Obituary

Laurence Dopson

Not an especially good deal – and to cap it off i was taxed

Lord mancroft may be right about poor professionalism

Patrick Cunningham

Nurses’ roles have changed a great deal since 1985

Debbie Jones

Remember patient privacy when you are handing over

Katie Cox

£1M spent on teaching nurses what they should know

Vanessa Stapleton

Diabetes terminology and laws relating to driving

Theresa Smyth

Students with initiative and a hands-on approach do exist

Samantha Resuggan

Intensive care is the best place to learn acute skills

Emma Brooker

Excuse me if I do not welcome the latest proposals with open arms

Brodie Paterson

Patient-Centred Prescribing – Seeking Concordance in Practice

Elizabeth Haidar

Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control – Making Smoking History

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Resilience in Palliative Care – Achievement in Diversity

Marion Goodchild

Award schemes celebrate the whole profession

Rosemary Cook

Tightening those belts

Suzanne Tongue

Noticeboard

Standard life: Keeping up to date is vital or it could be curtains for some nursing organisations

Daniel Allen

Readers panel: Get back to work

Linda Drake, Alison Crumbie, Stephen Weeks, Candice Pellett

A bank nurse showed me how to trust my own judgement

Gemma Rhodes

Keeping busy

Jane Bates

Outside in: A fairer society will only come about if everyone’s earnings are made public

David Newnham

Heartbreak and joy

Lisa French Blaker

Instant messaging may put young people at risk of harassment

Giving everyone a voice

Kim Manley

Third time healthy

Zhao Hongwen, Feng Xingyuan

Yisi Liu: ‘Working as a hospital nurse is like fighting a battle’

Yisi Liu

Land of plenty?

Liu Kejun, Wang Mei

Risk of preterm delivery reduced in very active women

Oral lichen planus responds well to aloe vera gel

Formula milk in Philippines to carry health warnings

Nursing student attrition is costing taxpayers £99 million a year

Adele Waters

Supporting role

David Langton

Two-tier system will decide pension of staff retiring early because of ill-health

Staff caring for vulnerable people face new vetting scheme

Poor nursing care features high in hospital complaints

Care homes closing at a rate of one a day

Survey uncovers extent of unpaid overtime

Tamsin Snow

Midwives launch search for a new ‘guardian of the profession’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Sunderland’s breastfeeding campaign scores with fans

Cardiovascular message needs to be clearer

News in brief

Health department to consult on acute skills framework

Whistleblower’s battle to remove care home manager vindicated

Colin Parish

New code launched amid legal concerns

Unions divided over ‘better than expected’ three-year pay offer

Tamsin Snow, Colin Parish

A shocking waste

Jean Gray