Well presented

Jane Redfern Jones

Examinations: a practical guide for students

Charles Hendry, Alistair H Farley

Learning from adverse incidents involving medical devices

John Amoore, Paula Ingram

Audio recording nurse-patient interactions

Graham Sloan

You cannot have student cake and eat it too

Carolyn Benson

Care home inspectors have patients’ welfare at heart

Mary Ternouth

Outside in

David Newnham

New graduate is excited, confused and ready to roll

Disability nurses have been overlooked yet again

Jacqui Rowe

Evaluate your job now to get what you deserve

Janice Clarke

New pay bands are just a disguised pay cut

Higson Elaine

Acceptance and teamwork are the only way to go

Joanie Spiegel Birmingham

Thanks for the column, duck

Wendy Fry Sheffield

What’s on: the best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Heart Failure in Practice Bernard Chin

Rachael Rowe

Tackling dilemmas and difficult issues

Gillian James

Heart Failure in Practice

Rachael Rowe

Sexuality and Disability

Gillian James

Disabled by society

Alex McClimens

If you’ve got it, share it

Sue Jones

Talking point

Jennifer Percival

A chance to work smarter

James Buchan

Should we all band together?

Bernadette Medcalf

Notes and queries on Agenda for Change

Starting out

Matthew Price

Gut instinct

Deborah Ralph

Research notes

Who needs the general practitioner?

Jane Scullion, Moyra Baldwin, Chris Buswell, Daniel Allen

Standard life

Daniel Allen

A royle flush

Ricky Tomlinson

A change of habit

Catharine Sadler

On the move

Robert O’Connor

Got to be in to win

Lynne Pearce

Different ills for different people

Sarah Harrison

Protect our children

Christian Duffin

Make no mistake

Colin Parish

New technique reduces mortality in heart failure

Irritant contact dermatitis responds to aloe vera gloves

Parents think antibiotics are needed to treat colds

Smoking, bed-sharing and drug and alcohol use in SIDS

Don’t break a leg

Inspectors to quiz care home plumbers

News in brief

Speak to the children in abuse cases, says Laming

Sarah Harrison

Colleague who defended nurse loses dismissal appeal

Health visitor scheme a success

On the move

Race for cash

Rebellion over student car park charges

Police support needed to curb violence in hospitals

Sarah Harrison

Multiple vision

News in brief

Disparity in team rewards causes tension

Time pressures lead to IV mistakes

Christian Duffin

Regrading claim brings £10,000

RCN pushes for high turnout in pay ballot

A&E staff struggle to meet targets for audit

Trusts may cut specialist posts to balance books

Graham Scott

Ward skill mix management study published

Iraqi hospitals receive much-needed supplies

Colin Parish

Oil fires pose ‘serious risk’

Military nurses screen dockers

First casualties arrive in england

Targets will be achieved but not sustained

You deserve recognition

Jean Gray