Positive spin

Mandy Bruce

Notice board

Just a minute

All things being equal

Angela Knight Jackson

Jill of all trades

Benny Goodman

Write a practice profile

Visual impairment in children

Using mentalisation to treat patients with borderline personality disorder

Belinda Gibson

Addressing nursing shortages in sub-Saharan Africa

Sue Campbell

A pain assessment tool for patients with limited communication ability

Karen Harper, Susan Bell

Evaluating a nurse-led DXA scanning service

Ade Adebajo, Linda Campbell, Jonathan Hitchcock

Lack of opportunities is curbing my enthusiasm

Mohamed Ghoorun

Enrolled nurses need more support to progress

Wendy Fallow

Being there for a relative was all that was required

Debbie Johns

Bullying experience can be put to good use

Staff must be free to move between providers

Richard Jones

Our specialist care deserves equal funding

Stephen Collinson

Have i missed a lesson on human condition?

Pippa McNickle

Tough times - and an nmc fee rise will make them tougher

Alison Jackson

Health department should pay for regulation changes

Jim Hemphill

Renaming ‘ageist’ job titles is a waste of time and money

Jacqui Rattray

We are more than robots fixing broken machines

Clare Donaldson

Jane Bates’s ‘Dirty work’ column about a smelly patient (reflections August 16) must have struck a chord with many nurses

Zeba Arif

The Biological Basis of Nursing - Cancer

Paula Gawthorpe

Stoma Care and Rehabilitation

Stella Backhouse

Grief Unseen - Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts

Wendy Budin

Care distinction

David Salvage

Standard life - If you want to promote your profession, forget the national headlines and call your local paper

Daniel Allen

Outside In

David Newnham

Dangerous liaisons

George Winter

Zero tolerance on torture

Yana Richens

The science bit

Monica Dobie

Voices

Sharon Dennis

Language of indifference

Lei Foster

Game on

Jane Bates

Starting out - Good communication can start with an offer of a cup of tea

Megan Broomer

Readers panel - High street health

Brid Hehir, Steve Flatt, Brendan McMahon, Sue Szczepanska

Emotionally smart

Sally Gooch

Peace, love and Florence Nightingale

Community nurse victory in Waltham Forest

Education hit hard in Essex

Nurse-led service for homeless to be replaced in cost-cutting move

Balancing act

Nurses take the lead in preventing deaths from AIDS in South Africa

Agency pay tops satisfaction survey

Tatnsin Snow

News in brief

Maternity care must improve, says watchdog

Nurse-led rehabilitation after heart attack as effective as hospital groups

Christian Duffin

Patients raise a glass to boost their spirits

Art and science fiction in one

Emergency care practitioners will aggravate ‘inter-professional tension’

Christian Duffin

Watchdog praised for making Herceptin available on NHS

Downgrading threat to eye hospital staff

Flaw in obesity strategy criticised

Nursing standard is best seller

Dressed to impress on the field

Specialist clinics are a ‘dumping ground’ for basic GP services

Tamsin Snow

The heart of the matter

Jean Gray