Disability care brought to life

Rachel Balen

Supervision scenario

Factors that can influence mentorship relationships

Beverly Hodges

Tympanic thermometry–normal temperature and reliability

Edward Purssell, Alison While, Billie Coomber

Support for parents witnessing resuscitation: nurse perspectives

Siân E Perry

Witnessed resuscitation: staff issues and benefits to parents

Hazel Moore

Caring for a disabled child at home: parents’ views

Annette Koshti-Richman

An intensive nurse-led occlusion therapy programme

Jilly Bradshaw

Managing pain using heat and cold therapy

Elaine Lane, Tracy Latham

Discussing future fertility following a diagnosis

Swallowing interventions

Reducing anxiety during radiation treatment

Difficulty with pill swallowing is blamed for non-compliance

Louise Spencer

The level of medical compliance during cancer treatment

Rachel Taylor

On the web

Louise Spencer

Journal scan

Diary

Notice board

Tackling childhood obesity across London

Christian Duffin

News In brief

Ground force

Government appeals to nurses to protect young from sexual danger

Teenage abortion rates drop, but STIs soar among the under 16s

£500 million ‘super hospital’ opens

Health visitor recruitment drive needed to keep the most vulnerable children safe

Laura Doherty

Resuscitation: a question of choice

Gary Bell