Pocket power

Vincent Tremayne

Steer your career

Valerie Gorton

What to expect from your mentor

Joanne Hardy

Work placement

Keith Bradley-Adams

Arrive ready to learn

Kath Sharples

Welcome to your

Your learning needs come first

Jan Cooper

Write to the point

Frances Pickersgill

It’s all in the planning

Balancing the books

Claire Cannings

Where to find support during your first year

Kerry Cook

Get ready for the journey

Naomi Baker

Notice board

How to share the learning

Linda McBride

The right incentive

June Andrews

Alcohol-related problems

James Cleary

Probiotics

Tanya Fernandes

Understanding the role of probiotics in supporting digestive comfort

Joycelyn Gage

Introduction to the nurse’s role in providing first aid

Rick Dean, Joe Mulligan

Arterial catheters: promoting safe clinical practice

Philip Woodrow

School nurse recruitment target will prove challenging

Amanda Norman

Hiv work in townships of south africa is fantastic

Philip Thompson

Banning plants on wards may be hindering recovery

Yvonne Potter

Time spent outdoors is shown to be therapeutic for patients

Maria McManus

Objective information is vital in flu vaccine debate

Amanda Wood

No nurse is too highly ranked to help patients with toileting

Agnes Macmillan

Yet again the profession is targeted for cost savings

Ritchie Watters

This is the best time to lobby for less paperwork and more bedside care

Stephen Weeks

People Skills – Third edition

Peter Savage

Mosby’s Expert Physical Exam Handbook – Third edition

Lydia Burke

Textbook of Palliative Medicine

Katie Jerram, Phil Russell

Webwise

Paula Gawthorpe

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out ishouldaskabout sexualissues despitemyembarrassment

Leila Blackburn

The latest fix for adrenalin junkies – ear irrigation

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Men at work

Brd Hehir, Mike Lehane, Linda Drake, Paul Jebb

Fever pitch

Jane Bates

The gift of dignity

Jean Glover

Voices

Peter Carter

Outsidein

David Newnham

A breath of fresh air

Carol Davis

Workers’wake-up call

Christopher Humm

Exercise promotes good sleeping habits in school children

Excess working hours affect cognitive function in middle age

All forms of hormone therapy increase risk of ovarian cancer

Researchers link joblessness in EU to rise in early deaths

Do single rooms require more staff than other wards?

Keith Hurst

Managing to make a real difference

Pay cuts and vacancy freezes: staff braced for the next NHS cash crisis

Superheroes enlisted to help children understand their health conditions

Ward quality checks help to cut patient mortality rates

Falls prevented by checking patients have what they need

BME staff achievements celebrated on film

Lack of information contributes to rise in residents’infection rates

Tamsin Snow

Assisted suicide guidance cautions profession over risk of prosecution

Erin Dean

Models highlight dangers of alcohol use in pregnancy

News in brief

Poor cleaning puts patients at risk

Nurses urged to be first in queue for flu vaccine

Give power back to the ward sister

Nurses tell tribunal they were victimised by trust

Whistleblower tag may discourage reports of malpractice, says NMC

Mental health staff say they need more time to spend with patients

Erin Dean

Nurse who campaigned for older people dies

Band 5 nurses most likely to be dissatisfied with their salaries

Tamsin Snow

Most employers support pay increase despite concern over job cuts

Struggling against the odds

Graham Scott