Badge of honour

Heulwen Morgan-Samuel

Discrimination elimination

Drew Payne

Sickle cell: It’s in the blood

Jennifer Sprinks

Noticeboard

Why I decided to go private

Nick Mulholland

Metastatic breast cancer

Rebecca Land

Asthma: pathophysiology, diagnosis and management

Gerri Kaufman

Palliative care for patients with chronic respiratory disease

Carol Kelly

Palliative care for patients with chronic respiratory disease

Carol Kelly

Raising awareness of borderline personality disorder and self-injury

Gary Lamph

Why you should publish in our peer-reviewed sections

Some checklists and tools are invaluable to busy people

Nicola Davies

Cutting access to ongoing learning is a false economy

Anne Pearson

I want my care home to open its doors to the garden

Eileen Richardson

Any change in assisted dying law needs to be evidence based

Baroness Julia Cumberlege

Students should be made to pay up for dropping out

Kay Ward

Mentorship and preceptorship have different roles to play

Cris Allen

Why were so many competent nurses retired in the 1990s?

Gill James

Cut management posts rather than front line jobs

David Harding-Price

Nurse managers must accept their accountability for care standards

Mandy Brennan

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

Margaret Paul

International AIDS Society

Drew Payne

Nursing the acutely ill adult – priorities in assessment and management

Bev Al-Azzawi

Lives Remembered: Telling the Stories of Older People – An Anthology

Roger Evans

Nursing: Study and Placement Learning Skills

Susan Watkins

Webwise

Drew Payne

Join me in honouring one of our greatest black heroes

Gail Adams

Readers panel - Convicted

Linda Drake, Christopher Barber, Julie Clarke, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe

Starting out some times we need to look after the family as well as the patient

Diane Taylor

Sometimes we need to look after the family as well as the patient

Diane Taylor

The knock-on effect

Yvonne Coghill

Voices - peter carter introduces guidelines on dementia care in general hospitals

Peter Carter

Danger money

Given the shove

Peter Carter introduces guidelines on dementia care in general hospitals

Regulation resistance

Friederike Endress

Breaking through barriers

Jennifer Sprinks

Targeted screening

Sue Learner

A history that lives on

Elizabeth Anionwu

Parents can be reassured over cognitive ability of children born after assisted reproduction

Public health initiatives needed to curb risk factors associated with stroke in young people

New treatment options for febrile seizures include applying 5 per cent CO2

Major barrier to Parkinson’s disease research overcome in the laboratory

Sleep disturbance linked to dementia in older women

‘Staff will have greater awareness of individual needs’

Trusts given support to create a fairer NHS for staff and patients

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Erin Dean

‘Nurses have never felt so much pressure in their day-to-day work’

Bill Doult

Too many NHS decisions are made by politicians, argues MP

Nurses have never felt so much pressure in their day-to-day work

Bill Doult

World in brief

Miliband will present Labour as defender of the NHS to win votes

125 years of QNI celebrated in calendar

News in brief

Striking US nurses angry at being locked out from work

Specialist clinic opens to help clubbers who use designer drugs

Bahrain nurse leader jailed 15 years for ‘ludicrous charges’

Standardised care and innovation helps slash pressure ulcer rates

Erin Dean

Better training needed for support workers

Top nurse honoured for bereavement work

Equality data must be included in new student index, NMC warned

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Call centre staff assured they will be redeployed

RCN puts pressure on peers over safe staffing levels

Right of reply

Peter Carter

NMC backs system for sharing nurses’ details

College gives government one last chance to move on pensions

Erin Dean

Career progression is not without prejudice

Joan Myers