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Community channels

Anne Jones

Career development

The most vulnerable

Ann Claveirole

Strength in numbers

Gemma Hale

Work, rest and play

Handling training

Mike Travis

A step in the right direction

Linda Shillingford

The definition of 'attrition'

Grant gripes?

Mix and match different abilities

Congress offers chance to debate training changes

Wounds and pain management

Karen McDowell

Pain management for patients with chest drains

Elizabeth Gray

Visitors’ violence: the serious effects of aggression on nurses and others

Doreen Nabb

Post-operative nausea and vomiting: a survey of nurses’ knowledge

Sue Jolley

Research ethics

Ann McMahon, Dave O'Carroll

We must fight to keep the Nursing Agencies Act

Phillip Hufton

It could be you... the care lottery

Sarah Evans

National standards are not needed in homes

Anita Astle

Keep up the pressure on ministers over crisis

Barbara Witton

Private hospitals are not poor cousins of the NHS

Candice Thacker

Compulsory night shift should be a thing of the past

Tracey Hamlyn

The best of the week's health-related TV and radio-Sit back and enjoy

Margaret Paul

Special powers

James Buchan

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Table manners

Melita Maricic

Pie-eyed and deskless

Nick Hinchliffe

Growing concerm

David Bellamy

Mental Wealth

Billy Ko

The right to leave

Mike George

Primary colours

Alison Moore

Children in check

Answers for an ageing population

Care closer to home

David Batty

High risk of death in patients with affective disorders

Eating apples could improve lung function

Hystenoscopy acceptable to women as outpateints

Ultrasound not linked to risk of childhood leukaemia

Transfer course

Children in care lack health plan

Common language a step closer

Health service needs twice as many critical care beds

Graham Scott, David Batty

News

Holiday renal dinic in staff hunt

Nurse who died of CJD was ‘casualty of science'

On the move

Managers tired out by changes

Clinical supervision the way forward for NHS

Nurses punished more severely than doctors

Nick Lipley

News

Call for more low-security units

Treatment should reflect shorter inpatient stays

Ian McMillan

Preceptors are failing recruits

Discharge may trigger stalkers

Discharge may trigger stalkers

Low investment carries high cost

Drive given 12 months

News in brief

Good role models for handwashing needed

Infection control

Nick Lipley

News

RCN to review returners’ status

Education partnerships are essential to nursing profession

Peace Ajiboye says your views matter

Peace Ajiboye

What happens when visitors turn nasty?

Don’t be complacent

Jean Gray