In the zone for best practice

James Dalrymple

Notice board

Good, but could do better

Follow my lead

Alcohol misuse

Lucinda Gregory

Reducing the risk of respiratory disease in overseas travellers

Jacqueline Pye

Mental health nursing students’ views of pre-registration nursing

Steve Wood

Early psychosis: raising awareness among non-mental health nurses

Gary Lamph

Obituary

Mary Dodd

Maybe it is time to adopt more standardised training

Joanne Parker

Training has moved on to reflect our diverse careers

Shane Lawson

Clear guidelines are needed for clinical placements

Rebecca Coupland

Tutors, sisters and matrons should be working together

Mike Owen

Learning the basics of care should become compulsory

Simon-Matthew Bate

Ward nursing is a small part of the nursing experience

Sandi Robinson

If we belittle students, they will turn away from nursing

Kevin Hines

Employers must provide suitable laundry facilities for uniforms

Isabel Jack

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

Margaret Paul

Learning Disability Nursing Practice

Charlie Sloan

Maternal-Neonatal Care Made Incredibly Easy! – First UK edition

Valerie McGurk

Clinical Education in the Health Professions – An Educator’s Guide

Julie Scholes

Webwise

Hazel Courtney

Starting out - I told my co-ordinator I was not prepared to put patient at risk

GPs may not want to hold the NHS purse strings

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Delivery debate

Alison Crumbie, Elsie Gayle, Paul Jebb, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe

Outdoor type

Jane Bates

Outside in - David newnham feels compelled to ‘throw a sickie’ – for his son

David Newnham

One falls, we all fall

Stephen Wright

Voices - Front line services can be protected with collective action, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Advocate for carer and patient

Looking from the outside in

Anita Pati

Moving out of control

Mary-Claire Mason

Handle with care

Angharad Williams, Caroline Swinburne

A death before life

Elizabeth Lynch

Falls prevention programme effective in older people

Brown rice could help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes

Osteoarthritis of the lower back leads to reduced employment

Body-checking ice hockey players log more injuries

Local authorities to control public health budgets

All change on the training front

College wants ban on retention of ‘soft’ information

Government’s timetable for older people’s care funding welcomed

Tamsin Snow

Now is the time to test for HIV/AIDS

Turn up for your bank shift and win a spa break

Employers urged to let nurses volunteer for ‘unique’ London olympics opportunity

Individual indemnity could shift litigation risk on to registrants

Jennifer Sprinks

Recital strikes the right note

News in brief

Honours should be more representative

Clients build up their confidence in TV-style dinner party challenge

Nurses who misused drugs will be asked to prove medical fitness

Trusts should link pay to productivity, says think tank

Reduced staff numbers fuel fears for jobs

Palace invitation for service to community

RCN calls for views on radical overhaul of the health service

Tamsin Snow, Jennifer Sprinks

Statue supporters at parliament

Unions urge staff to wait before accepting severance pay

Tamsin Snow

Target red, amber, green

James Dalrymple

Tackling a long-term issue

Graham Scott