Student life - the secrets of success

Alvisa Palese, Angelo Dante

The secrets of success

Alvisa Palese, Angelo Dante

Understanding wisdom

Joan Curzio

Noticeboard

Focus on fitness to practise

Jackie Smith

Keep hold of your scruples

Sidone Chilufya

Oncological emergencies

Irene Croucher

The role of red meat in a balanced diet

Carrie Ruxton

Evaluating the effectiveness of wound management products

Louise McKeeney

Assessing nurses’ ability to classify pressure ulcers correctly

Jennifer Kelly, Michelle Isted

The role of antiseptics in pressure ulcer management

Georgina Gethin

Increasing health checks for people with learning disabilities

Susan Turner

Students should repay fees to offset cost of attrition

Kay Ward

Cutting corners turned out to be a false economy

Broaching the subject of tissue donation is integral to care

Angela Ditchfield

Empirical research needed on both sides of the debate

Celia Manson

Peer’s claims about assisted dying are those of a campaigner

Harriet Copperman

Legalisation of assisted dying protects rather than threatens

Sarah Wootton

The fundamentals have been lost in the pursuit of new roles

Mike Owen

Involve family members in the care of relatives

Zeba Arif

Financial constraints are squeezing the life out of the NHS workforce

Zuzana Khan

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

Margaret Paul

Everyman Campaign

William Scott

The Future of Nursing – Leading Change, Advancing Health

Betty Kershaw

Talk to the Headscarf – A Memoir

Audrey Ardern-Jones

Making Sense of Research: An Introduction for Health and Social Care Practitioners – Fourth edition

Sarah Ryan

Starting out - I wanted to watch a resuscitation but i had a duty to be elsewhere

Rosemary Spencer

Webwise

William Scott

I wanted to watch a resuscitation but I had a duty to be elsewhere

Rosemary Spencer

Collaboration needed in fight against disease spread

Rose Gallagher

Go straight to the source - readers panel

Alison Crumbie, Kate Tantam, Jessica Streeting, Elsie Gayle

Focus on the future

Cecilia Anim

Voices - Tony Hazell outlines plans for standards to help nurses delegate with confidence

Tony Hazell

Jingles hell

Driven crazy

Tony Hazell outlines plans for standards to help nurses delegate with confidence

An end to false alarms

Catharine Sadler

A testing dilemma

Elizabeth Lynch

Worth fighting for

Daloni Carlisle

Exposure to high traffic pollution blamed for setting off heart attacks

Email counselling as effective as face-to-face sex therapy for prostate cancer survivors

Multiple care guidelines can and do work, as pioneering trial shows

Patients with anaemia facing blood transfusion would like more information and options

Eating white-fleshed fruits and vegetables lowers risk of stroke

How do UK end of life services compare?

Keith Hurst, Dai Roberts

Pay expert says local bargaining would cost more and be disruptive

Will the complex takeover of NHS 111 be worth all the effort?

World in brief

Largest ever UK union strike ballot launched

Proposal to fund organ donors’ funerals fails to win support

Political notebook 19.10.11

Support workers could be given a greater say in running the RCN

Jennifer Sprinks

Picketers invited to discuss concerns

Unions vow to continue fight for amendments to health bill

Bill Doult, Sarah Harrison

Downbanding is a big concern for us - college

News in brief

Profession’s influence on local commissioning varies

Boards need to take the lead - inquiry chair

A&E unit issued warning over low staffing levels

Anne milton says that fundamental issues lie at the heart of failings in older people’s care

Anne Milton

Nurse leadership is instrumental to care quality, insists Lansley

Winterbourne View whistleblower to join inspectorate

Critical report spurs staff into taking responsibility for care dignity

Nurses face investigation in the aftermath of CQC inspections

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Bill will not cure ills exposed by the CQC

Graham Scott