Cool, calm and collected

Sean Kennedy

Make reducing credit card debts a priority

Carol Davis

Notice board

Practise makes perfect

Maureen Crowley

Student life - Handing over responsibility

Chloe Celisko

Record-keeping

Sheila Dudley Finnan

Audit and research: similarities and differences

Dinah Gould

A practical guide to external direct current cardioversion

Tracey Gibson

Drug calculations part 2: alternative strategies to the formula

Kerri Wright

Local implementation of the Essence of Care benchmarks

Sue Jones

Alan Simpson

Alan Simpson, Steve Flanagan

‘Health mot’ for the over 40s is no cause for celebration

Brian Wilson

Retractable needles are only part of sharps protection

Janine Jagger

Healthcare staff set an example in attitudes to HIV

Nancy Collins

Government’s approach to inflation is inconsistent

Julie Evans

Changes to unsocial hours pay leaves many worse off

Susan Wilkinson

My training did not earn me a single learning credit

Kelly Soon

Three million unpaid carers deserve a better deal

Imelda Redmond, Paul Cann, Stephen Burke

Drug calculations can be dangerous if units are not included in the sums

Felicity Hall

Men’s Health – How To Do It

Colin Rees

Assessment of Childhood Disorders – Fourth edition

Dean-David Holyoake

The Way We Die – Brain Death, Vegetative State, Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Dilemmas

Gary Blatch

No substitute for care

Simon Daniels

Cleaning with cold plasma

Keith Nuthall

Lord darzi’s revised strategy for the NHS is so obvious it defies belief

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Big sister is watching

Linda Drake, Mike Lehane, Sarah Esegbona, Candice Pellett

Starting out - Self-medicating patient taught me always to ask questions

Festus Umatta

Rare treats

Jane Bates

Cardboard cut-out infection control nurses deserve dignity too

David Newnham

Room for god

Stephen Wright

There is much to celebrate about primary care in the UK

Rosemary Cook

So, what’s up doc?

Christian Duffin

To b or not to b?

Angela Foster

A rude awakening

Caroline Swinburne

Gymnastics poses dangers to young girls aged 12 to 17

Diabetes not ethnicity increases risk of mi in asian people

Miscarriage risk increases with high caffeine consumption

Soldiers’ mental healthcare needs increase over time

Campaign will aim to promote dignity through leadership

Colin Parish

Nurses fear their concerns about care will be ignored

‘Patients with dementia deserve a better death’

Makeover for hospital rooms used by grieving relatives

NMC members and staff interviewed over bullying claims

Pioneering council sets sights on personalised care

RCN to defend principle of free nursing care for all older people

‘D-card’ boosts diabetes awareness

Survey reveals huge variations in care standards across trusts

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

Nurses’ toenails help with heart disease research

Hands-on pulse monitoring sees cardiac arrests cut by two thirds

Colin Parish

Giuliani-inspired approach yields dramatic improvements

Government denies it is planning to penalise poorly performing hospitals

Tensions between staff defused by home cooking

Inflation leap fuels fears for pay deal

Comfort leads Nurses Day celebrations

Staff willing to blow the whistle but a third suffer career damage

Adele Waters

Transparency saves lives

Jean Gray