Notice board

Answering the public’s call

Kathleen McGrath

Life saving students

Billiejoan Rice

Community nursing

Nursing management of patients with severe ulcerative colitis

Mark Sephton

The nurse-patient relationship in the post-anaesthetic care unit

Joanne Reynolds, Ros Carnwell

Professional development for registered nurses

Deborah Casey, Liz Clark

Who are these education officers and managers?

claire stephenson

Supporting patients who need cataract surgery

Karen McColgan

Antisocial behaviour policy is impractical and ineffective

Peter Ghroum

Death is horrible and cann ever be called ‘good’

Michael Fowell

Patients are exempt from new ‘disturbance’ rules

Martin Wiles

Family nurse partnerships more than pay their way

Sam Chenery-Morris

Name and shame those people who assault NHS staff

Mike Lehane

Negative press gives unfair image of committed students

Harvey Morgan

Bewildering IT systems should be booted out to fund front line services

Claudia Morales

Only qualified professionals should administer medicines

Christmas soaps: casualty and Holby city

Margaret Paul

Notes on nursing – a guide for today’s caregivers

Cathe Gaskell

Infection control – a psychosocial approach to changing practice

Helen Glenister

Outside in

David Newnham

The best of the holidays health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Laurence Dopson

Page turners

Starting out-i gained more from a placement by speaking up for my self

Hayley Dawes

Readers panel - Nursing by degrees

Mandy Allison, Jane Brown, Paul Jebb, Marie John

The riddle of what changes patients’ ways at Christmas

Jan Halstead

On song

Jane Bates

Voices

Dame Chris Beasley

The real skills

Stephen Wright

In florence’s footsteps

Fiona Smith

New management techniques give more time with patients

Great act to follow

Pressure point

Redfern Jones Jane

Witness an expert at work

Sally-Ann Denton

Early onset type 2 diabetes has high complication risk

A force for good

Catharine Sadler

Adding psychotherapy to telephone care has benefits in depression

Hormone replacement therapy a factor in lung cancer deaths

Older people who walk slowly have increased mortality

‘Nurses receiving a better wage settlement than rest of economy’

Leaders look ahead to the issues for 2010

Concerns over job security and a boost for ward sisters

Nurse of the year fought for children’s care

Regulation receives a boost

Pupils paint a picture of nursing in the future for prime minister’s commission

RCN’s neutral stand on changes to suicide law

Swine flu sweeps UK

The people, policies and pandemic of 2009

Lack of funding could undermine government’s mental health vision

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurses join protest march against effects of climate change

Care plans aim to curb youth crime

Breast screening expansion will not adversely affect workload

Agency staff feel increasingly isolated by ‘them and us’ culture

News in brief

Pilot scheme gives ward sisters more hygiene control

The 22 most senior nursing staff at Just the tunic to make senior nurses easier to spot

Productive ward measures see hospital’s mortality rates plummet

Erin Dean

One member of staff received no response from eight or nine incident forms

Climate of fear stopped staff from blowing the whistle at failing trust

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Transplant experience fires apprentice’s ambition

‘End child immigrant detention’

One-year residency is music to the ears

Swine flu jabs for children could overload community nurses

Darling draws the line

Graham Scott