A bit of give and take

Isik Zeytinoglu

Delivering good tidings

A new chapter

Making time to learn

Paul Snelling

Promoting health in primary care

Laura Demmen

Current management strategies in the treatment of obesity

Alison Shepherd

Withholding or withdrawing nutrition at the end of life

Susan Holmes

Management of procedural pain in adult patients

Jamie Given

Margaret Nimmo 1923-2010 Senior nurse manager, Edinburgh

Laurence Dopson

Nimmo, Margaret

Laurence Dopson

Pointless paperwork only undermines patient care

Jenny McIntyre

Today’s male nurses are clear on ethical boundaries

Matthew Keane

RCN vote on hca membership was lost by a tiny margin

Peter Carter

Solidarity with support staff would benefit our practice

Karen Dutton

Disparaging attitudes to assistants are old-fashioned

David Jones

Poor standards of palliative care put us all to shame

Billy Nichols

Difficult background does not mean i am damaged

‘Damaged’ nurses are assets to NHS with their wealth of life experiences

Anne Taylor

Webwise

Simon Palfreyman

British Geriatric Society

Wild Onion Nurse – A Collection of 25 years of the Poetry of Nursing in a College of Medicine Literary Journal

Peter Barraclough

My Ward – The Story of St Thomas’, Guy’s and the Evelina Children’s Hospitals and their Ward Names

Laurence Dopson

Creative Approaches to Health and Social Care Education

Chris Chaloner

The fall guy

Jane Bates

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Reassurance and a cup of tea allayed older patient’s fears

Irene Foulkes

I had to stand firm as an advocate for what is right

Readers panel - A well-seasoned

Mandy Allison, Paul Jebb, Esther Tanton, Esther Tanton, Janet Smith

Outside In-David Newnham is thoroughly entertained by an eye test

David Newnham

A chance to shape community services

Linda Drake

Voice - Starting as a student is an exciting but anxious time, says Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

No barriers to care

Coming to Haiti’s aid

Jo Carlowe

Plastic fantastic

Oona Mashta

Notice board

Sitting down at work and at the computer increases VTE risk

Benefits of dental treatment outweigh short-term risks

High death rate at beginning and end of opiate substitution

Fitness levels linked to the severity of cold symptoms

Australian nurses take strike action over nurse-patient ratios

College guidance spells out tragic consequences of understaffing

Erin Dean

‘My challenge is to support nurses in delivering person-centred care’

Assisted dying commission aims to protect carers from the law

Jennifer Sprinks

Legislation will lead to inflexible palliative care, say MSPS

Cross-continental trek will raise funds for medecins sans frontieres

Judge awards £107,000 to back-injured nurse

RCN says profession deserves a memorial for its war heroes

Public sector workers unite in protest

Union anger as trusts cut pay protection for downgraded staff

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Erin Dean

News In brief

Call to speed up law change on prescribing

Service users drafted in to help select the best nursing students

Assistant practitioners could get NMC registration and ‘nurse’ title

Scope for better services

Handed proposals

Government’s plans receive cautious welcome

School nurses and health visitors key role in delivering public health

Petra Kendall-Raynor

College calls for nurse numbers to be used as quality indicators

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Staff soldier on as temperatures drop to – 22.2˚c

The numbers game

Graham Scott