A contentious area

Marc Cornock

Notice board

‘I receive two or three referrals each week’

In patients’ interests

Danielle Weekes

Hurdles to understanding

Helen Jones

Coaching interventions

Hazel Forker

Improving self-management for patients with long-term conditions

Nicola J Davies

Care of patients undergoing intra-vitreal therapy

Sue Watkinson, Eileen Scott

Disseminating best practice at conferences

Bob Price

Health and safety rules and legal fears hamper change

We only really start to learn after we qualify

Carmel McLoughlin

My tattoos sometimes help break the ice with patients

Lee Smith

Is there a future for me in learning disability nursing?

Frances Pratt

Farewell to an inspiring animal rights champion

Betty Lowell

Closing mixed-sex wards would be too expensive

Bridget Ryan

There are better ways to mark LGBT history month

Ian Morrall

Universities need to be honest about attrition

June Evison

Obesity is caused by what we eat, not the decline of the family meal

Tara Burke

Macmillan Cancer Support

Palliative Care for Children and Families – An Interdisciplinary Approach

Suzan Smallman

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing

Bev Al Azzawi

What is Nursing? Exploring Theory and Practice

Karen Elcock

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Patient’s refusal to wash may have been a sign of his distress

Chantelle Cox

My early habits are paying dividends

Jan Halstead

Readers panel

Jane Brown, Lorraine Jeffs, Scott Justice, Jane Scullion

Weighty issue

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - David Newnham in allowing laptops sees no harm into hospital

David Newnham

Inciting an ageist culture

Stephen Wright

Voice - ‘Geriatric’ patients have much to teach us, says Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

A carer’s perspective

Lynne Pearce

Numbers for newborns

Mary-Claire Mason

When expectation and experience collide

Stephen Wright

Uncharted territories

Webwise

Greta McGough

Going all out for Haiti

Pierre-Pierre Garry

Bone protective drugs not prescribed for women after fracture

Stopping smoking increases risk of diabetes short-term

High mortality rate from infection with P. Aeruginosa

Home-made packed lunches slip through nutrition net

Profession’s popular image

Commission will call for enhanced pay and authority for ward leaders

Erin Dean

Productive ward scheme will be evaluated to prove nurses’ worth

Erin Dean

Electronic records for neonatal examinations trialled

Corrie actor’s helpline boost

Care of women who develop diabetes during pregnancy to be reviewed by national audit

DH considers the case for insurance

Boost for yorkshire carers

Trusts repeatedly ignore safety warnings, charity tells minister

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Prioritising targets puts patient safety at risk, claims think tank

News in brief

Children’s care should be available 24/7

More rigorous entry process for would-be nursing students

Draft commission report fails to address key concerns

Inquiry team launches abuse line

Investigators to share information

Latest sickness absence figures show increase among NHS nurses

Tamsin Snow

A victory for convenience

Specialist nurse services under threat in climate of cost cutting

Erin Dean

We await with interest …

Graham Scott