Writing on the wire

Jane Redfern Jones

Ringing the changes

Paul Dinsdale

Notice board

Be brave, admit ignorance

Melanie Gasston-Hales

Bowel management

Andrea Morgan

Care of patients undergoing knee replacement surgery

Jenny Temple

Care of patients undergoing knee replacement surgery

Jenny Temple

Planning your future development

Bob Price

Nurse prescribing in addiction services:client benefits

John Gallagher

Nurse prescribing in addiction services: client benefits

John Gallagher, Colin O’Gara, Mohammed Sessay, Jason Luty

Strategies to promote sexual health

Gillian A Ritchie

Podiatrists are best option for plantar warts referrals

Jeff Evans

Subjective feelings have no place in provision of care

Thomas Arlarch

Nurse education should include spiritual element

Jennifer Cross

New heart series provides welcome encouragement

Anna Ellis

Help is on hand for victims of stalking or harassment

Tracey Morgan

Community nurses need courses not ward experience

Paul Lyttle

Lack of supervision is not limited to community work

Varvara Vlachava

Standards of care will fall because of focus on targets

Perri Dennis

Pressure to take shortcuts is undermining care quality

Saundra Williams

Sisters’ bullying left me depressed and degraded

Misha Serafinowicz

Financial crisis will create lasting damage to service

David Williams

Scarcity of jobs means bleak future for nursing graduates

Lisa Scott

Schools have finally recognised that simulators offer students the real deal

Wendy Beecroft

Palliative Care - The Nursing Role: Second edition

Christine Eberhardie

Dream Interpretation as a Psychotherapeutic Technique

Greta McGough

Dream Interpretation as a Psychotherapeutic Technique

Greta McGough

The Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Diet

Susan Holmes

The Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Diet

Susan Holmes

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Palliative Care – The Nursing Role:Second edition

Christine Eberhardie

Webwise

Bruce Lindsay

Sacrifice required

Jane Bates

Outsidein

David Newnham

Pretty vacant?

James Buchan

Starting out - I was shocked by my inability to support a grieving relative

Adele Lea

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel-To vote or not to vote?

Jane Brown, Paul Jebb, Julie Walden, Christopher Barber

Powerful caring

Alan Pearson

Lessons from times square

Alison Moore

Ethnicity as a factor in adverse reactions to cardiovascular drugs

Steroid use causes vascular stiffening in bodybuilders

Paracetamol helps with late pain after laser eye treatment

Non-medical prescribing in community leg ulcer clinics

Parkinson’s nurse saves £64,000 a year

Prove your worth

Numbers add up for diabetes service

Students protest about patient safety

Hunt for new RCN chief begins

sarah Harrison

Vacancies fall as freeze begins to bite

RCN petitioners seek emergency meeting on headquarters sale

News in brief

Unions question justification and timing of the proposals

‘council will have to prove it is worth a higher fee’

Penny by penny, NMC sets out why it needs another £37 a year

Sarah Harrison

Bringing cinema magic to patients

Staff will accept rate rise to keep final salary pension, say unions

sue Learner

Lost funding jeopardises sexual health training

Russian revolution for nursing course

Staff variations on stroke units puzzling

RCN paves the way for industrial action as anger grows over job cuts

Sarah Harrison

Swimming against the tide

Roger Evans