Employing clout

Exploding the myth

Cris Allen

Pathway to success

Janice O’Hare

Freeing minds

Accentuate the positive

Deborah Clatworthy

Life and death issues

African expertise

Filling the gap

Lynne Wallis

Championing men’s health

Lynne Pearce

Streamlined service

Delicate tissue

Caroline Swinburne

When it’s great to grow up

Stacey Atkinson, Hollingsworth Nicole

Social support

Janice O’Hare

Break the pain barrier

Milly Doregos

Happy campers

Valerie McGurk

Pioneering specialist

Shirley Martin

Problem solved

Roma Jones

Continence care and policy initiatives

Christine De Laine, Janet Scammell, Vanessa Heaslip

Intermittent self-catheterisation and the female patient

Elisabeth Bennett

Resuscitation in primary care

Philip Jevon, Margaret Raby

Outside in

David Newnham

Too busy to kick up a fuss over family bias

Lisa Fagan

How will the health service compete for staff?

Bill Todd

Students do want more autonomy on placement

Deb Neale

Bring back dedicated, caring nurses

Grace Jones

One qualification fits all

Stewart Attridge

All-degree profession will hit recruitment

JO Castle

Awareness of dyslexia is something to aim for

Stephen Sutton

New pay system will bring its own problems

Julie Lloyd

All the basics for an emergency

Sabina Ahmed

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

Margaret Paul

Perioperative Practice: Fundamentals of Homeostasis

Paul Wicker

Advanced Cardiac Life Support A Practical Guide

Sabina Ahmed

Jumping through hoops

Zita McGregor, Jane Bates

Watch and learn

Bates Jane

Ask the experts

The bare bones

Adrienne Spiers

Future in focus

James Buchan

Take control of your meetings

Jennifer Percival

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Name your price

Stephen Weeks, Marie John, Mike Lehane, Brid Hehir

Night frights

Tim Turner

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Birth rights

The male line

Men at work

In the name of safety

Colin Parish

Psychological interventions in methadone maintenance

Short course therapy success in childhood pneumonia

Predisposing factors in peptic ulcer formation and healing

A weekly round-up of the latest rsearch and scientific reports from the nursig and madical journals

Nurse directors complain of poor pay rates

Out-of-hours calls will be screened by NHS Direct

Unions demand pensions guarantee for NHS staff

Colin Parish

Why are we waiting?

Draft bill compared to sci-fi film

Trusts reluctant to employ refugee health workers

Pat Healy

Community nurse wins seacole award

Budget queries await minister

£1,500 boost for Scottish returners

Putting politicians straight on stroke

News in brief

Research links inadequate staffing to patient deaths

Colin Parish

Opening lines

Female nurses less stressed

Hospitals need supermarkets, says architect

Study investigates abuse of nurses

‘Unjust’ rule for staff with mental illness is revoked

Christian Duffin

Records chaos hits paediatric units

Christian Duffin, Pat Healy

Protesters highlight dangers of stigmatising mental illness

More men in nursing than ever before

Unions back radical shake-up

Traditional roles will go in overhaul of primary care

Pat Healy

News in brief

The modern male nurse’s role model

Spotlight on excellence

Jean Gray