Notice board

Strategies for change

Lynne Wigens

Qualified to advise

Nicky Hayes

Know the boundaries

Benny Goodman

Travel health

Beverley Tompkins

Supporting children with complex health needs

Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor

Management of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Jennie A Walker

Therapeutic effects of music and singing for older people

Ann Skingley, Trish Vella-Burrows

Edward (Ted) Lewis Nurse, manager and consultant 1936– 2009

Doug Langdon

Nightingale article helped to relight my nursing lamp

Inspection systems itself is in need of a radical overhaul

John Price

Nurse jackie puts casualty and holby city in the shade

Helen Scully

Focusing on the medical needs can blind us to the full picture

Bridget Ryan

The excitement of qualifying is dampened by unemployment

Maeve Corry

Committed and proactive teams in learning disability

Eric Broussine

A-Z of Complementary and Alternative Medicine – A Guide for Health Professionals

Paula Gawthorpe

Computing Made Easy for the Over 50s

Laurence Dopson

The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing – A Textbook of Principles and Practice: Second edition

Alister Campbell

Help from outside

Sue Staddon

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Watch your weight, not the big plasma screen on the wall

Anne Diamond

Starting out - I overcame my feelings to be an observer in an abortion clinic

Susan Leisk

Help is at hand to ensure that human rights are respected

Maxine Hurley

Readers panel - Standards for senior nurses

Linda Drake, Janet Smith, Esther Tanton, Jane Scullion

A bad smell

Jane Bates

Clearing the confusion

June Andrews

Voices

Elizabeth Anionwu

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Builders’ mates

Lynne Pearce

A source of solace

Jenny Knight

Better drug adherence after transplant in children sent texts

Neither exercise nor inactivity associated with endometriosis

Vitamin C supplements can reduce risk of gallstones

Parents and young children share S aureus strains

‘Nurses who feel undervalued become careless and unkind’

Pay band fall hit stoma care specialist

Health charities launch fight to keep specialist nurses threatened by cuts

Erin Dean

Staff unable to get to work may lose pay

Work stress ‘the cause of affairs’

Nationwide roll-out for catheter safety regime

Practice nurse numbers linked to better outcomes

Staff hold the key to eradicating mixed-sex wards

Tory manifesto promises greater use of specialist practitioners

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Management is vital to care says Parkinson

Three trusts ordered to comply with race relations requirements

Controversial US drama makes debut

NMC seeks nurses’ opinions on new whistleblowing guidelines

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Compulsory checks scheme could be revised

Consensus on student bursaries almost impossible, warns RCN

Erin Dean

Oral feeding advice warns against tubes

More NHS employers join list of workplaces promoting equality

Nurses too afraid to blow the whistle at Mid Staffs, inquiry told

Big freeze proves no stumbling block as nurses go the extra mile

Tamsin Snow, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Valuing the specialists’ role

Graham Scott