Female urethral catheterisation

Sarah Pierce

Primary breast cancer: risk factors, diagnosis and management

Antonia Dean

Setting up and priming an intravenous infusion

Gillian Younger, Marion Khan

Graduated compression stockings to prevent deep vein thrombosis

Linda Walker, Sue Lamont

I was treated like a criminal after a harmless drug error

Daphne Moran

Supporting hybrid embryo research is a tough decision

Bruce Turner

Understaffing makes dignified care difficult

Frances Wheatley

Access to primary care is linked to mental health

Steve Freeman

I urge students to try to maintain high standards

Jean Armstrong

E-Learning is not the best education for all nurses

Philip Woodrow

Filming staff handwashing is a complete waste of time

Dinah Gould

Technological devices are useless without nurse input

June Clark

Where do these romantic notions of working for the NHS come from?

Dean-David Holyoake

Infection Prevention and Control – Theory and Practice for Health Professionals

Jane Brown

Employee Well-being Support - A Workplace Resource

Claire Westwood

Lower Extremity Wounds – A Problem-Based Learning Approach

Sue Shaw

Working rights in the balance

Anne Diamond

Light but tight stockings

Monica Dobie

Nurse advocates brought relief to patient in terrible pain

Lisa Driver

Counting the cost

Marie John, Sue Szczepanska, Christopher Barber, Julie Clarke

Careless talk

Jane Bates

My mum prefers to put up with pain than pop her pills

David Newnham

Out of the shadows

Gwen Moulster

My birthday message to the NHS is ‘modernisation, not privatisation’

Peter Carter

Notice board

Birth of a French love affair

Teresa Bennett

Global mission

Meg Styles

Tips to stay on top of costs

Carol Davis

Unaccustomed as I am…

Marie Rodgers

Breaking the chain

Lynne Wallis

Young people’s belief that a tan looks good has increased

Trying cigarettes in adolescence predicts smoking as an adult

Cardiac care service provision for angina is not equitable

Work pressures and their effect on mental health

‘I do not understand how the pay bandings can vary so much’

If the new pay system is fair, why are so many nurses on a downward slide?

Smile therapy

Mandy Bruce

‘Hold contract cleaners to account’

Weighing of soap dispenser bags sees staff handwashing rates soar

Tamsin Snow

Skills pilot reflects shift in care

Trust adopts Mickey Mouse approach to service

Impending hospital nuisance law will give staff power to act on disturbances

News in brief

Report highlights communication gap in dementia care

College review of congress could see students lose voting rights

Colin Parish

Singing up for maternity services

TVdrama explores Nightingale legacy

Variety of job titles threatens infection control compliance

Joking with patients seen as risky

Charity cultivates love of gardening to help reduce patients’ stress

Unions pile pressure on Whitehall and trusts over fuel allowances

Tamsin Snow, Paul Stephenson

‘Spiked’ drinks are often just extra measures

Pay rise due next month as RCN and Unison accept multi-year deal

Tamsin Snow, Paul Stephenson

Put your trust in Disney

Graham Scott