Getting off to a good start

Kathleen Duffy

Helping people breathe easier

Jenny Knight

Spirit of enterprise

Matthew Limb

Noticeboard

Learning to lead

Mary Casey, Martin McNamara

Delirium

Eva Richards

Improving inhaler technique in patients with asthma

Jane Leyshon

Secondary prevention of stroke and transient ischaemic attack

Maggie Lawrence, Hazel Fraser, Charlotte Woods, John McCall

Promoting nursing and midwifery as a potential career for school leavers

Julie Harrison, Moyra Journeaux

Evaluating dressings is a complex process

Mike Jackson

Students need to learn more than basic, essential care

Hayley Covell

The role of red meat in a balanced diet is still unclear

Michael Fowell

Finally, an article that recognises red meat’s benefits

Susan Holmes

The risks of breast cancer screening are downplayed

Deborah Fenlon

Women have an informed choice about breast cancer screening

Julietta Patnick

Blaming the health service’s target culture does not explain poor care

Margot Lindsay

Webwise

Bashyr Aziz

Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

Bashyr Aziz

Putting a Name to It – Diagnosis in Contemporary Society

Greta McGough

The Passion of Florence Nightingale

Laurence Dopson

The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures – Eighth edition

Susan Carlisle

UN members commit to action against disease

Katy Cooper

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Student experiences in the real world of nursing

Hayley Pointon

When professional detachment is brought closer to home

Hayley Pointon

Readers panel-Private decision, public duty

Linda Drake, Jane Scullion, Paul Jebb, Sue Szczepanska

As caring as ever

Stephen Wright

Voices

Jean Gray

A little sore

Shout it out

The last thing people with cancer need is financial worries

Calculating risk

Catharine Sadler

The meal makeover

Jackie Cosh

Still fighting an uphill battle

Passionate leadership

Mortality risk among healthy older women increases in first year after hip fracture

Inherited breast cancer gene causes earlier disease onset with each generation

Tobacco smoking linked to many millions of deaths from tuberculosis

Just a small amount of daily physical activity may reduce risk of all-cause mortality

Dementia risk increases in people who rate their own health as poor

‘I will work shifts to check staffing levels’

Demand may outstrip healthcare resources this winter, warn nurses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

World in brief

Political notebook 02.11.11

‘Legal assisted dying improves care’

Nurses recognised for work with minority ethnic communities

HCAs need skills that ‘will stand the test of time’, says chief nurse

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Erin Dean

Here’s looking at you, kid

Statistics reveal that BME nurse managers are under-represented

Adele Waters

Court ruling fails to protect whistleblowers, charity says

Children’s nurse shortage ‘extremely concerning’

News in brief

Health secretary refuses to back down on downbanding comments

Providing cover could undermine strike, says college

A&E staff tickled pink by guest of honour

Candidates sought to be first Director of Nursing

RCN insists practice nurses are safe after changes to indemnity scheme

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Healthcare assistants win full RCN membership rights in historic vote

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Campaign aims to boost nursing voice in lords

Landmark decision is in everyone’s interests

Graham Scott