Sending the right health messages

Judy O’Sullivan

Notice board

The hub of the matter

Michael Head

Model for success

Jenny Knight

Learn through role play

Stephen Wanless, Michael Adams

An overview of permanent cardiac pacing

Ali Jackson

Mean arterial blood pressure and the assessment of acutely ill patients

Terry Ferns, Graham Harris, Teresa McMahon, Kerry Wright

Acute pain management in the opioid-tolerant patient

Nicola Bourne

Anxiety assessment tool is a much-needed development

Mark Mitchell

Psychological preparation for surgery improves care

Karen McColgan

Nurses need to speak out against the white paper

Wendy Savage

Competition between systems will impact on data sharing

Fran Connell

Cuts to council budgets may jeopardise health initiatives

Richard Scully

As a steward, i represent a wide range of RCN members

JP Stevenson

We should be teaching students to look at the human being in the bed

Greta McGough

Doctors’ white coats are not the only infection risk

Gary Jones

Let us move away from the ‘them and us’ divide with HCAs

Tanis Hand

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Marc Cornock

Nursing and Collaborative Practice – A Guide to Interprofessional Learning and Working – Second edition

Gordon Valentine

Dementia Studies – A Social Science Perspective

Greta McGough

Nurses’ Voices – Memories of Nursing at St George’s Hospital London 1930-1990

Betty Kershaw

Hear me now

Jane Bates

Starting out-better pastoral care and more realism can reduce attrition

Sarah John

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - faulty goods

Mike Lehane, Marie John, Mandy Dervis, Jane Brown

OutsideIn - Finding humour in dark times can buoy the spirit, says David Newnham

David Newnham

The palliative care that never came

Voices

Rosemary Cook

People living in a low-traffic area are less prone to heart disease

Colorectal tumours are more common in men and smokers

Pro-cycling campaigns help to boost participation

RCN doing ‘vital work’ fighting for equality

Equality are a Diane Abbott

Accountability and motivating force for

Lending a little hand

Alison Handley

Local health care steps into a new era

Slow and steady wins

Oona Mashta

Users report unwanted effects from mephedrone

‘Guerrilla’ tactics recommended for senior staff

Trust bosses get tough on ‘moody moaners’

Trolley initiatives save hospital £10,000

England defines advanced level role – but it is different in Wales

Sarah Harrison, Tamsin Snow

‘Future of medicine lies with nurse practitioners’

News in brief

Promise for more midwives left hanging

RCM members vent anger at u-turn on commissioning

Nurses’ pay rates under threat as trusts seek local settlements

Erin Dean

Education on patient abuse needed

College enshrines principles of the nursing family

RCN presents government with evidence behind its job cut claims

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurse input ‘ignored’ in NHS reforms

Trusts sign up to online skills tests

Mid staffs employees shy away from ringing whistleblowing hotline

Tributes paid by profession’s leaders

Milton insists chief nurse role is safe as Beasley decides to retire

Petra Kendall-Raynor

A champion nurses need

Graham Scott