A private function

Helga Goutcher

Essential leadership skills for motivating and developing staff

Elizabeth Curtis, Rhona O’Connell

New barcode checks help reduce drug round errors in care homes

Deidre Wild, Ala Szczepura, Sara Nelson

A force for transformation

Theresa Shaw

Leadership scheme targets new nurse and midwifery graduates

Ann Rae

Engaging staff in the change process

Jane Brookes

Out for consultation

Dementia in acute settings

Ruth Williams

Mental health advice

Staff involvement

Ruth Williams

Assessment tool to identify patients at risk of malnutrition

Diary

Designing and Managing Your Research Project

Graham Sloan

Occupational Health Law

Bashyr Aziz

It won’t hurt a bit! nursing tales from the swinging sixties

Laurence Dopson

Nurse on Call: The True Story of a 1950s District Nurse

Sharon Palfrey

The nurse’s social media advantage

Irene Mabbott

Global Institutions: The World Health Organization (WHO)

Jane Salvage

EU workforce must put patient safety first

Susan Williams

Respect for colleagues is respect for patients

Aled Jones

The pros and cons of routine

A good investment

Peter Griffiths

Touch-screen technology frees nurses to spend more quality time with patients

Carol Davis

Watchdog considers annual hospital and homes inspections

Making pressure ulcers a thing of the past

College welcomes employer commitment to fair and equal pay

Unions raise concern over plans to split chief nursing post

Regulator updates advice on use of social networking websites

Government to review policy on integrated care records

Nick Lipley

News in brief

Nurses already know what to do

Donna Kinnair