Position of influence

Elaine Maxwell, Alison Crombie

Notice board

Play your cards right

Teri Harman

Special service

Lynne Wallis

Hit the ground running

Ruth Spellman

Hepatitis C

Michael Malpas

Ectopic pregnancy: risk factors, diagnostic procedures and treatment

Anne McQueen

Improving the quality of community placements for nursing students

Nikki Brooks, Ruth Rojahn

Child sexual abuse: a new approach to professional education

Mike Walsh, Janet Major

My gran was let down by community nursing system

Ebony Kunze

Managing the process of self-care for lymphoedema

Barbara Foulger

Every team member should be valued and respected

Marcia Guy

Healthcare staff must have a good standard of literacy

Andrew Makin

Reporting a colleague can be far from straightforward

Cut the red tape that only leads to pointless waste

Prescription drugs left at home should be monitored

Anne Keat

Reducing medication waste could ease the strain on NHS finances

Rhianne Norris

Critical Thinking and Writing for Nursing Students

Irene Mabbott

Emergency Cardiology: An Evidence-Based Guide to Acute Cardiac Problems – second edition

Sabina Ahmed

Our Speaker Today – A Guide to Effective Lecturing

Greta McGough

Iodine puzzle Jane Bates can now see the point of school milk

David Newnham has a cosy chat about the dark arts of statistics

No patient should die through managers’ ignorance, writes Jean Gray

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Gary Blatch

Please practise what you preach about eating well

Helen Jones

Getting to know a prankster meant that I gained his trust

Kevin Hines

Readers panel - dispense with fees

Brid Hehir, Linda Drake, Elsie Gayle, Mandy Allison

Starting out - Getting to know a prankster meant that i gained his trust

Kevin Hines

Outside In

David Newnham

Simple kindness

Emma Dawson-Goodey

Voices - No patient should die through managers’ ignorance, writes Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Join the network

Alison Wallis, Richard Brothwell, Sharon Levy

Innovation by example

Kristin O’Leary

Rapid response to crisis

Hero of cyclone Yasi

Elizabeth Lynch

Probiotics may be of benefit to infants receiving MMR jab

Sunshine reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in women

Osteomyelitis can occur up to a year after bacteraemia

Psychological distress is linked to long-term disability

Patients attack NHS reforms but is Mr Cameron listening?

Financial strain and deadlines are leading to job losses and closures

Swazi wellness centre brings staff benefits

Bahraini hospital recruitment drive continues despite unrest

WHO ‘needs a stronger nursing presence’

Carter attacks NHS over lack of proper training for support staff

Rwanda praises work of nurses

Nurse prescribers are popular with patients, ministers told

Close shave will furnish hospice

News in brief

Mental health unit’s smoking ban to be challenged in court

Students in call to save nursing school

Union calls for nurse ratios as staff say they struggle to cope

‘Pensions threat is the mother of all battles’

Nightingale commemorated as PM praises her successors

Profession urged to stop being nostalgic and overly bureaucratic

Diversity of roles in local bodies

Global survey highlights concerns over poor working environments

Mural celebrates charity’s 50 years

Mr Cameron must deliver

Graham Scott