Learning for life support

Pauline Cardwell

On the move

Build an instinct for feelings

Audrey Beauvais

Notice board

A position of strength

Lynne Wallis

Promoting and maintaining healthy hydration in patients

Carrie Ruxton

Mentorship

Michelle Cowan

Translating an academic module into an online resource

Isis Lioba Howatson-Jones

A thrombolysis pathway for patients following acute ischaemic stroke

Elmer Javier Catangui, Julia Slark

Butler, Gill

Laurence Dopson

Mental health specialist would be an asset to the upper house

Natasha Sykes

We need nurses with intellectual rigour in the House of Lords

Alethea Dawson

The media can help restore nurses’ public reputation

Manpreet Kaur Cheema

Students fear health reforms will impinge on patient care

Stuart Young

It is time for nurses to start fighting for our pay rights

Craig Hopkins

Trust should put patient care before drive for Magnet status

Heather Dale

Increased competition will drive more trusts to seek US-style accreditation

Helen Grimes

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

nurse Margaret Paul

38 Degrees

Bashyr Aziz

Examination of the Newborn – An Evidence- Based Guide

Natasha King

Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Research, Theory and Practice – Fifth edition

Mark Pittman

Facilitating Learning in Healthcare

Dame Betty Kershaw

Webwise

Bashyr Aziz

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Workforce

James Buchan

I am proud of my contribution to a patient and his family’s care

Richard Broadhead

Society should embrace people with dementia

Jeremy Hughes

Strength through partnership-Readers panel

Jane Brown, Linda Drake, Shona >MacLean, Elsie Gayle

The NHS pay review body is fair and transparent

James Buchan

The risks presented by cutting corners in drugs practice

Matt Griffi

In the hot seat

In my opinion

Peter Carter says staffing levels are not good enough on older people’s wards

The war has just begun

Stephen Wright

Finding their way

Catharine Sadler

A tool for commissioners

Elaine Maxwell, Elizabeth Robb

Getting ratios right, for the patients’ sake

Adele Waters, Alison Moore

Steep rise in soldier suicides coincides with military action in Iraq and Afghanistan

Belief in efficacy of influenza vaccine increases likelihood of uptake among healthcare staff

Compulsory wearing of cycle helmets may be necessary for children but not for adults

Unnecessary induction of labour increases risk of complications

Higher-performing trusts employ more nurses than low performers

Tamsin Snow

Time to see the light

Erin Dean

Outcomes of art therapy cast doubt on national guidelines for patients with schizophrenia

News in brief

MPS’ report states regulator is far from effective – mps' report states

Political notebook 04.04.12

Low status of older people’s wards affects nursing quality

Wristband idea helps keep patients safe

Nurse specialists back government drive to transform dementia care

Sally Gillen

Students present uniform appearance

RCN ups pressure on trusts to pay increments withheld from nurses

Sally Gillen

Hospital trials introduction of duty management team

Convicted nurse calls on global community to act

Staff’s AfC terms ‘must be protected in care shake-up’

Regulator is far from effective – MPs’ report states

Fuel panic creates transport concern for community staff

Figures show one in ten nurses were attacked at work last year

Change to immigration rules poses ‘significant’ threat to patient safety

Sally Gillen

Don’t give up on pensions, urges Unite

Nurse independent prescribers win parity over controlled drugs

Tamsin Snow

At last, a common sense approach to prescribing

Jean Gray