Learning curve

Joanne Hardy

Tips for success

Helen McDonald

Delicate balance

Lynn Murphy

Negotiate in style

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Negotiate in style

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Administration of medicines

Rachel Jones

Emergency first aid for nurses

Rick Dean

Emergency first aid for nurses

Rick Dean

Recognising the limitations of your genetics expertise

Caroline M Benjamin, Kimberley Gamet

Working in care homes: a survey

Jane Ball, Pauline Ford, Valerie Smith

Working in care homes:a survey

Jane Ball, Hove, Sussex, Pauline Ford, Valerie Smith

Mary seacole’s scottish heritage has been forgotten

Rod Thomson

Younger students should be more professional

Kim Hynes

Simplification of foreign names is practical at work

Sabina Ahmed

Fingerprick testing is not administered on finger pad

Anne Mellis

Thank you for the feedback on venepuncture article

Irene Lavery

Psychiatric nurses feel undervalued, used and abused

Gail Bower

NHS employers 2.5 per cent pay offer is madness

Gareth Phillips

Our profession should not discriminate against dyslexia

John Rigby

Blanket ban on those with dyslexia could be unlawful

Kathy George

Dyslexia did not stop me from becoming a chief nursing officer

Dame Sarah Mullally

Physiology for Nursing Practice – Third Edition

Ian Chisholm-Bunter

Handbook for Care Assistants – A Practical Guide to Working with Older People

Margot Lindsay

Statutory and mandatory training in health and social care – a toolkit for good practice

Alan Chapman

Outside in

David Newnham

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Robert Dudley

Save primary care

Stewart Miller

The science bit

David Newnham

With an accent on prejudice

Jane Bates

Gene politics

Steve Maddern

VoicesLinda Thomas applauds a charity that is celebrating its 20th year supporting victims of torture

Linda Thomas

Handling with care

Caroline Dux

Not-so-private practices

Zeba Arif

Starting out - Finding time to talk to a patient can help reduce their anxiety

Rebecca Amos

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Notice board

Readers panel – equal treatment

Mike Lehane, Kate Chapman, Esther Tanton, Chiccoe Moyo

Case study: when mentoring goes well

Thelma Agnew

Words of wisdom

Campus care

Catharine Sadler

Lack of activity puts adolescent girls at risk of obesity

First and second trimester screening preferred option

Predictors of whiplash after a rear-end car collision

The reaction of Londoners to the July 7 terror attacks

Lack of breaks leaves nurses burnt out

Christian Duffin

Will the government’s world-class aims give nursing research the boost it needs?

Thelma Agnew

Better decontamination needed to cut vCJD risk, warns expert

Colin Parish

Male nurse issues legal challenge to demand equal rights in training

Adrian O’Dowd

Ulster students in ‘disaster’ lesson

Research into genital mutilation care wins funding

Project opens up career path of overseas staff

Sarah Harrison

Nurses will have full formulary

Scotland’s AfC approach will ‘save us grief’

Britt Ekland urges ‘hands off dementia drugs’

Primary care apology from NHS human resources head

Milburn attacks merger plan

Unions express alarm at SHA’s wholesale ‘privatisation’plans

Colin Parish

News in brief

Students miss out on free flu jab

Key care home concerns defined

Unions incensed by government request for local pay bargaining

Colin Parish

Alarm as sexual health staff told to inform police about child clients

Sarah Harrison

Call for volunteers

Put care back into homes

Tim Madge