How to be more effective at work

Rosemary Cook

Human givens diploma

Theo Machingambi

Raising a research profile

Sheila Hunt

Student life - My turning point

Marie Rodgers

Fatigue in patients receiving palliative care

Emma Ream

Cervical screening in an Orthodox Jewish community

Sonia Berjon-Aparicio

Improving the numeracy skills of nurse prescribers

Paul Warburton, Peter Kahn

Pathophysiology and classification of stroke

Chris Collins

Capitalism is not a threat to health and wellbeing

Patrick Cunningham

Nurses can benefit from opportunities in new nhs

Sarb Gidda

60 Hours a week was too much so i left nursing

Layla Luke

Training and service cuts hit the vulnerable most

Jocelyn Fisher

Healthy start programme endorsed by mothers

Millie Nelson

Like nurses, GPS deserve extra pay for unsocial hours

David Wight

Inspirational student will make a wonderful nurse

Kim McKie

Knowledge and skills framework varies widely

Rezzeline Mendiola

To strike would jeopardise public affection towards us

Sharon Johnstone

Is it any wonder that nurses do not feel like smiling?

Sarah Endicott

Industrial action is the only way to change our fortunes

Tracey Gibson

Nurses deserve more, but i am unable to go on strike

Ruth Thomas

I am newly qualified and already thinking of leaving

Geraldine Malkin

Blair could be the first prime minister to force nurses into strike action

Rose Bird, West Lothian

Webwise

Chris Eberhardie

Health Promoting Practice - The Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

Wendy Boothroyd

Yes, Health Minister - 40 Years Inside the NHS Working for Children

Bríd Hehir

Overcoming Low Self-Esteem Self-Help Course - A 3-part Programme Based on Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

Brigid Breckman

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

Margaret Paul

Outsidein

David Newnham

Voices - watching logan’s run reminded linda thomas that older people flourish with a bit of attention

Linda Thomas

Under pressure

Jane Bates

Stand and deliver

Paul Martin

Starting out-Oralhygiene includes taking specialcaretocleandentures

Emily Franklin

Standard life - Dying patients want to discuss and participate in choices about their care, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - A recipe for eating disorders

Esther Tanton, Roger Cowell, Graham Houghton, Jane Scullion

Notice board

Home delivery

Barbara Millar

Blood simple

The gang’s all here

Dina Leifer

Taking antioxidants before diving might protect the heart

Literacy classes improve depression through self-efficacy

Stent surgery for aneurysm has risk of late complications

Illegal drug use and misuse of medication among US teens

Will the below-inflation pay deal add to a new recruitment crisis?

Tamsin Snow

NHS to learn lessons from Tesco in listening and responding to staff

Colin Parish

Productivity must rise but measures are inadequate

PM’s midwifery numbers error ‘unintentional’

Cabinet wants nurses to smile more

‘Schools should be allowed to stock allergy medicines’

DH plan to screen workers’ blood is a diversion, say unions

News in brief

Saudi Arabia asks Scottish nurse to help set up college

Staff in Scotland ‘ready to revolt’ over implementation of Agenda for Change

Nurses with disabilities afraid to speak out

Tamsin Snow

Union attack cuts in wales

More money for nurse education

Nurses ‘best people’to lead NHS hospital at night teams

Colin Parish

New registrants at lowest level for three years

Government focus on malnutrition

Long-term care compensation inadequate

Pay award could be delayed by support staff opposition

Pressure grows for 2.5 per cent rise in nurses’ April pay packets

Colin Parish, Tamsin Snow

A laugh at patients’ expense