Openness and honesty

Frances Ward

Notice board

‘We are achieving what families want’

Frances Pickersgill

The road to independence

Sidone Chilufya

Write a practice profile

Faecal incontinence

Susanna Crichton

Management of patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis

Dave Burns

Best practice in the management of venous leg ulcers

Sharada Regmi, Krishna Regmi

Pain management during wound dressing in children

Stefan Nilsson, Ann-Christine Renning

The importance of applying human factors to nursing practice

Beverley Norris, Lynne Currie, Caroline Lecko

Introduction to patient safety series

Lynne Currie

Gardiner, Dorothy

Laurence Dopson

The lack of care I experienced made me ashamed to be a nurse

Ethical practice takes precedence over any demands by employers

Marc Cornock

Meeting the needs of people with gonorrhoea reinfection

Elizabeth Cort

I would have sent ‘alternative’ Holby Sity nurse straight home

Victoria Andrews

Many nurses use twitter as an outlet for their frustrations

Sue Morrall

Twitter-obsessed nurses lack the social skills of the older generation

Lis Rogers

UK Faculty of Public Health

Heat of the Moment – 25 Extraordinary Stories from Olympic and Paralympic History

Bríd Hehir

Rethinking Aging – Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

Pat McCollum

Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare – Second edition

Irene Mabbott

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

Margaret Paul

I learned how important mental capacity is for informed consent

Alison Moore

Food for thought

Zeba Arif

Change your lifestyle – or else - Readers panel

Alison Crumbie, Kate Tantam, Stephanie Cumming, Paul Jebb

Healthy sceptic

Feeling a failure

Be a cancer detective

Lynn Faulds Wood

Our humanity came to fore after last summer’s riots

Webwise

Sue Hill

A tale of two nurses

Erin Dean

Blackpool sees the start of a revolution

Alison Moore

Improve your resilience at work

Benefits of a well workforce

Building resilience

Erin Dean

Criteria for identifing polymyalgia Rheumatica in the over-fifties identified

Ethnic and social inequality associated with infectious disease in New Zealand

Some antipsychotic drugs prescribed for dementia increase likelihood of death

Recorded incidence of lower limb amputation varies across England

How to tackle the taboo

Ian McMillan

One year on, the real cost of the pay freeze

Nurses told to boycott survey as it could lead to erosion of conditions

Sally Gillen

Telephone follow-up reduces readmissions

World in brief

Regulator admits to three-year FtP case backlog

Rate that doctor: new rules ask nurses to help revalidate medics

Social enterprise offers greater freedom

Bitter disappointment at decision to drop student ‘misconduct’ index

Jennifer Sprinks

Liverpool celebrates 150 years of training

Lansley prepares to justice reforms to thousands of critics at congress

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

RCN advises on emergency contraception for teenagers

Academics reject 0.5% pay rise offer

NHS Direct nursing staff negotiate options for flexible working

Newly qualified nurses continue to miss out on accelerated pay

Building resilience in the nursing workforce

Jean Gray