Booking a time for treatment

Notice board

Turning an idea into reality

Richard Clark

Better for business

Richard Staines

A good place to be

Buddies help find the way

Helen Allan

Administering medication to adult patients with dysphagia:part 2

Jennifer Kelly, David Wright, Jennifer Kelly, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, MS Kelly’s

Obesity prevention

Michelle Cowan

Conservative management of faecal incontinence in adults

Marion Allison

Rectal irrigation for patients with functional bowel disorders

Dawn McWilliams

Disseminating best practice through publication in journals

Bob Price

Chris Halek mental health nurse 1957– 2010

Ros Alstead

Psychosocial care loses out because of time constraints

Peter Martin

Trust in my colleagues has been shaken by mid staffs

Andrew Makin

Better nutrition can come at an affordable price

Christine Eberhardie

The NHS should take the blame for credibility gap

Katherine Guellard

Attrition could be curbed by more high quality mentors

Paul Watts

A nursing education is about more than writing essays

Claire Leathem

Standardised training is key for healthcare assistants

Tanis Hand

It seems that the defining role of caring is no longer our domain

Karen Elcock

The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right

Greta McGough

Safeguarding Children in Primary Health Care

Amanda Norman

Containing Trauma – Nursing Work in the First World War

Betty Kershaw

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

Outsidein

David Newnham

Starting out - Time is no barrier to forming a close nurse-patient relationship

Camille Short

Embarrassing problem? Show it to television viewers

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - job security comes at a price

Paul Jebb, Esther Tanton, Kate Tantam, Julie Clarke

Blog gripes

Jane Bates

Veiled challenge

Zeba Arif

Voices - Tony Hazell urges nurses to send their views on education to the NMC

Tony Hazell

The long road

Lynne Pearce

The ultimate gift

Elizabeth Lynch

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

Margaret

Turning theory into practice

Stephen Wright

My ambition is to harness nurses’passion and talent

Wound sepsis reduced when chlorhexidine is used as skin prep

Protein should be added to dietary advice on diabetes

New test can rapidly identify the cause of bacterial sepsis

Smoking cessation after early diagnosis can be beneficial

Mixed reception for dual roles

Landmark deal gives union power to negotiate terms for non-NHS nurses

Mid Staffs: how to ensure the mistakes never happen again

Erin Dean

Standards body will assess care

‘Our staff are good people who have been badly led’

New regulatory regime will hold managers to account

News in brief

Local pay system in doubt as unions urge staff to opt out

Assisted suicide guidance wins support of palliative care nurses

Tamsin Snow

Arthritis specialists being ‘under-used’

Praise for innovative services

Fighting talk from midwives

Nurses must pledge to give quality care

Minister for nursing promises action group to implement commission’s ‘radical’ findings

Erin Dean

Commission recommendations

Commission report underlines the need to enhance ward leaders’role

Erin Dean

Give sisters visible authority

Putting patients first

Graham Scott