Prepare to succeed

Carol Banks

The management of breathlessness in palliative care

Tanya Andrewes

International collaboration in genetic nursing

Heather Skirton, Janet Williams

Discharge planning

Caroline Rudd, Judith Smith

Outside in

David Newnham

Breakaway techniques require regular practice

Iain Rennie Dundee

Volunteers wanted for anti-smoking campaign

There are many ways around the staff shortage

Alix Cull

Twenty years’ experience and all I get is a D grade

Dianne Kaplan

A good day at work depends on team spirit

Valerie El-Gamel

Show ward managers how much they are appreciated

Jacqueline Davies

Outpatients has moved into the 21st century too

Beverley-Jane Waltho

Good nurse, with life, seeks worthwhile job

June Gooch

Living with a Chronic Condition

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

How to avoid research pitfalls

Sue Simpson

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

Margaret Paul

Living with a Chronic Condition

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

The essential researcher’s handbook

Sue Simpson

An ideal sabbatical

Chris Bassett, Lesley Chivers, Mike Lehane, Sue Hopkins

Making up for lost time

David Harding-Price

Second chance

Paul Farmer

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Ask the experts

The invisible nurse

Jennifer Percival

Realities of torture

Meagan McNaney

Improving airway care

Louise Barber

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Worlds apart

Claire Gartrell-Mills

The French connection

Beat the clock

Home truths

Robert O’Connor

It is what you know

Adele Waters

Our patience is running out

Pat Healy, Colin Parish

The next level

Paul Dinsdale

Folic acid is cardioprotective in cigarette smokers

Long-term effects on children born prematurely

Head injuries in horse riders decline but fractures increase

Re-exposure to varicella virus protects against herpes zoster

Judge to decide on lifting case

On the move

Listen and learn

Home owners take claim over fees to High Court

Pat Healy

Convicted nurse slips through net on the move

Labour’s mental health proposals denounced

Conservatives want end to national pay bargaining

Bill Doult

Today’s NHS is ‘unacceptable’says Tory nurse

Child protection needs boost

Key healthcare staff may receive smallpox vaccine

Christian Duffin, Pat Healy

Concern over trust autonomy

NHS managers’ code released

News in brief

Simple measures reduce backlog

Review urged to help cut adverse events in theatre

Colin Parish

Trust waives interviews for 54 recruits

RCN pledges support for all-graduate profession

Paul Dinsdale

Let’s dance

Payout ends dispute over RAE ranking

Tree of Life preserves memories

Hospital staff a step closer to equal pay win

Nurses’ conditions will be benchmark in NHS

Definition is ‘powerful tool’ in fight for fair pay

Adele Waters

Patients rely on nurses to define their needs

Degrees of success

Jean Gray