The healing relationship

Lynn Jones

Notice board

She’s finally got IT

Wanted: future nurse leaders

Student life - how can i help?

Julie Chapman

Drug-induced hyperprolactinaemia

Shabina Ghafoor

Haemochromatosis

Tanya Fernandes

Hereditary haemochromatosis: patient support and education

Orla Sheahan, Elizabeth O’Connell

Proctoclysis: emergency rectal fluid infusion

Vincent Tremayne

Implementing a patient assessment framework in acute care

Liz Lees, Tara Hughes

Mary Baird Health visitor, war veteran, nurse leader and activist 1907– 2009

Laurence Dopson

Work unpaid? We already give more than enough

Mary Holey

Patients at my IVF unit say they value male nurses’ care

Cathy Turner

Degree boost will require investment from taxpayers

Julie Scholes

Attrition rates mean caution is needed over nurse numbers

Helen Rose

NHS information resource is better than any search engine

Deb Fanner

Therapeutic gardening helps encourage healing process

Mike Lehane

A packet of seeds from a patient was the start of a new healthier me

Bridget Ryan

Mosby’s PDQ for LPN – Nursing Facts at Hand: Practical, Detailed, Quick – Second edition

Anthony Batson

Counselling Skills in Palliative Care

Phil Russell

Health Promotion for Nurses – Theory and Practice

Monica Haggart

Readers panel - Reality Check

Julie Clarke, Janet Smith, Brendan McMahon, Kate Tantam

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

Webwise

Clare Bennett

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

The science bit

Mentor’s support helped me get over nerves about handover - starting out

Emma Brazier

When ‘reassurance’ makes the patient hysterical

Jan Halstead

Absent friends

Jane Bates

The perfect balance

Ann Begley

Voices

Dame Chris Beasley

Outside In - David Newnham has defied the statistics by being short and happy

David Newnham

Smoke-free benefits

Making a world of difference

Lucy Gooding

Cancer prognosis for African Americans worse than for others

Current smokers are less aware of their hypertension

People who take beta blockers more likely to need cataract surgery

Study finds no link between dairyrich diets and strokes

Power care-Trained to provide better patient care through strong and focused leadership

Workforce planning tops agenda to prevent shortfall of nurses

Thermometers at bedsides save valuable time

Professional role difficult for young

Health secretary rejects plan to give nurses general practice rights

See services as children do – commissioner

Police and NHS collaborate to combat assaults

Mid Staffs nurses asked to give evidence at independent inquiry

Erin Dean

Practice nurses say immunisation training is needed

News in brief

Care homes fail to meet nutritional standards

Brother’s peace message

Health staff urged to have swine flu vaccine, despite low infection rates

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Creativity needed to target remote heart disease patients

Unions facing an uphill battle to secure promised pay rise

Tamsin Snow

Pay awards under scrutiny by unions

Staff morale is as vital as patients’

We asked nurses: was it difficult to find your first job?

Rise in number of vacancies signals emerging staffing crisis

Student funding options spark debate on which system is fairest

Erin Dean

Getting the balance right

Graham Scott