Casting votes

Drawing a line

Evidence of care

Chief nursing officer’s special award for prison nursing

Mature thinking

High and dry

Lives in the balance

Matter of priority

Notice board

Crossing the

Paul Dinsdale

Infection control

Joanne Mitchell

Assessment and management of abdominal obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes

Peta Fenn

Professional development opportunities in changing times

Bob Price

George Liddle

Heather Bond

Calling all enrolled nurses

Red tabard system has already proved its worth

Dougie Lockhart

Our good will is leading to exploitation by the politicians

Linda Hobson

There are childminders who care for children overnight

Gill English

Childminding is about caring, educating and challenging

Judith Lechmere

Liaison nurses could benefit lesbian and gay patients

John Hunt

Timely medication is crucial for parkinson’s patients

We will lose respect if we work for free

Melissa Naili

Please think about what older nurses have to say

Malcolm Smith

I don’t look good in a dress and belt – but perhaps that’s because I’m a man

Allan Ralston

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

Margaret Paul

The Essential Carer’s Guide

Roy Riseborough

How to Master Anxiety - All You Need to Know to Overcome Stress, Panic Attacks, Phobias, Trauma, Obsessions and More

Catherine Gaskell

Improving Workplace Learning

Hazel Courtney

Community and general nursing

Liverpool Victoria

Pointing the way

Nurses take the initiative

Fit for purpose

Ruth Williams

Webwise

Marc Cornock

Worth a look

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - Watch out Sir Elton, David Newnham’s about to get back on his piano stoo

David Newnham

Relative stress

Zeba Arif

Voices - Many famous nurses were linked to the struggle against slavery, says Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

Not all children are in trouble, but it takes nurses to help those who are, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers Panel

Brendan McMahon, Steve Flatt, Bríd Hehir, Sue Szczepanska

Starting out - I wish i had felt more confident to use my life-saving skills

Catherine Studd

Top flight health

Children benefit from food fortified by vitamin D

High risk of COPD in young people with chronic cough /phlegm

Heart disease risk increased in people with ptsd symptoms

SARS commission reports on the Canadian outbreak

White paper offers no guidance on HCAs

Burden of proof will change in fitness to practise hearings

Shake-up sets nurses on new path to revalidation

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Campaignerputs case for detaining homeless people

Lords amend Mental Health Bill to limit nurses’detention powers

Bill Doult, Colin Parish

Research boost will ‘fall flat’ without cash

Off-duty nurse helps to triage at crash site

Vigil for healthcare staff on death row

Fears for terms and conditions if staff transfer out of NHS

Tamsin Snow

New payment system could mean

RCN survey to identify nurse directors

Inventor of scrotal pain pouch wins nurse of the year title

‘Talent pool’website to help new nurses looking for work

Tamsin Snow

Dh unlikely to extend community practitioners’ prescribing formulary

Training budgets to get tougher scrutiny

News in brief

NMC fee increase to be approved

Cautious welcome for plans to reform professional regulation

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Talent in abundance

Jean Gray