Moving between settings

Alison Holloway

Patients’ stories of good care are so satisfying

Notice board

Ready to step in

Sarah Campbell

Another dimension

Ann Begley

Electrocardiogram interpretation

Nancy Collins

Integrated assessment of older adults who misuse alcohol

Carolyn Wallace, Damien J Black, Anne Fothergill

Nurses’ perceptions of medication errors in Malta

Elmira Petrova, Donia Baldacchino, Martin Camilleri

Learning and applying biosciences to clinical practice in nursing

Kathryn Smales

Irene Haddrell Fever nurse 1924– 2010

Anne Shaw

We would like to be paid more, and so would the dustman

Sue Szczepanska

Neuro-linguistic programming has no basis in neuroscience

Gareth Roderique-Davies

The privacy and dignity of men is being undermined

Craig Hopkins

Medication administration needs structured monitoring

Sue Jordan

Research into Ketamine will help us manage pain better

Janet Knight

Good ward housekeeping is just as important as more technical duties

Terry Lawrence

The Rise of Obesity in Europe – A Twentieth Century Food History

Brigid McKevith

Arts Development in Community Health – A Social Tonic

Sam Gournay

Turning the Blues Around – One Woman’s Story of Kicking Depression to Nurse the Mentally III

Paul Sayer

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

A vote for the right candidate is too precious to lose

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - cash for hands-on training

Carol Singleton, Alison Crumbie, Moyra Baldwin, Frances Wheatley

Sharing grief but being ‘arock’ is an essential part of the job

Funny bones

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - David Newnham will not have to queue for the loos. And pigs will fly

David Newnham

Privilege of power

Stephen Wright

Voices - rosemary cook welcomes the conference season and the chance to meet nurses

Rosemary Cook

Wiring disorder

Catherine Quinn

In the present

Mary-Claire Mason

Dedicated support in every hospital

Lynne Pearce

In your best interests

Alison Handley

Potting compost could be risk factor for legionnaires’ disease

Polypharmacy raises the risk of falls in people with diabetes

Full effects of HPV vaccination not seen for many years

‘Red flags’ help the diagnosis of serious illness in children

Leading names and a party leader scheduled to speak to nurses

‘We have to show we care about dementia’

Make your voice heard at Nursing Standard’s series of fringe events

Nurses set to address tough issues against a general election backdrop

Call to make care more spiritual

Aspirin aids post-cancer survival

Care assistants licence is flawed and unworkable

Huge Increase In Consultations By Practice Nurses

Minister’s refusal to set deadline for AfC process branded unfair

Tamsin Snow

‘Botox’ nurses urged to register

Election delays nurses’powers to give patients painkilling drugs

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

Mileage allowance scheme stalls due to ‘lack of funds’

RCN reaction to the main parties’ health policies

Party proposals for the shape of a post-election NHS are unveiled

Bill Doult, Alistair Kleebauer

International experts to examine global shortage of nurse educators

Rallying cry in support of public sector workers

Ward Sisters At Sharp End of Cutbacks

College director to cycle 104 miles for dementia charity

RCN calls for separate regulation to recognise advanced practice

Tamsin Snow

Votes count as never before

Elaine Cole