An end to indifference

Jim Blair

Notice board

Keeping fit for practice

Matt Dean

A love of learning

Lesley Anne Martin

Academic writing

Elizabeth Foxwell

Using emollients to restore and maintain skin integrity

Philip Watkins

An overview of molluscum contagiosum: a viral skin condition

Dinah Gould

Respiratory assessment

Janet Hunter, Karen Rawlings-Anderson

Nursing interventions to minimise undernutrition in older patients in hospital

Joanna Briggs

Avoid using the index pad for finger prick blood tests

Kathy Doughty

Poor pay forced me to quit and there is no other work

Christine Jackson

It insults nurses to refer to their work as a privilege

Lisa Brackenridge

Positive experience restored my faith in the health service

Gail Bower

Infrared thermometers are fast but unreliable

John Zeal

Guidance on treating patients with dignity is available

Annie Norman

Are all learning disability students so disaffected?

Chloe Morley

Car boot sale couture and holidays in a tent are all this student can afford

Sasha McLaughlin

Sport and Physical Activity – The Role of Health Promotion

Wendy Boothroyd

Design for Nature in Dementia Care

Annie Pollock

Fundamentals of Pharmacology: An Applied Approach for Nursing and Health – Second edition

Siobhan Roe

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

The nightmare world of my coma

David Jones

Actions that benefit patients are not an abuse of power

Gemma Keefe

Standard life - Where’s the superhero whose sole purpose is to comfort and support nurses?

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Lifting the clouds

Mike Lehane, Frances Wheatley, Carol Singleton, Lorraine Jeffs

Cold calling

Jane Bates

NHS patients are being given the runaround, says David Newnham

David Newnham

Look at it this way

Kim Thomas

Elizabeth Anionwu is saddened by poor care in sickle cell services

Elizabeth Anionwu

Casualties of conflict

Alison Moore

Partners in crime

Lynne Pearce

Infants who sleep poorly likely to be overweight at three

Body mass and activity combine to reduce heart disease

House dust containing S. aureus may worsen atopic dermatitis

Nurses’ role redefined by fresh thinking on disability

Where is the greatest illness and disability in England?

Keith Hurst

Nurses learn how working smarter creates time for care

Nurses resilient amid heavy aftershocks in china

No prosecutions made under female genital mutilation law

Scottish staff will hitch a ride online

Key recommendations from CHRE report

Review of regulator criticises poor leadership and communication

Sarah Harrison, Colin Parish

News in brief

England’s chief nurse becomes a dame in birthday honours

Obama shadows cardiac nurse on surprise US hospital visit

Service users rate NHS Direct highly, despite industry criticism

Colin Parish

Gloves off for artist’s take on infection

Fuel shortages could hit NHS food deliveries

Nurse ratio information key to improving patient choice

Action plan to support black staff as research shows racism persists

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Cash pledge at awards night

Pay rise set to arrive in july

Carers sit down to protest £15 offer

Calls for NMC chief executive to resign in wake of damning report

Colin Parish

Perspectives on disability

Mike Jackson, Mike Jackson