The menopause course

Kathy Abernethy

Notice board

Learning to assist

Muriel McNab

Niche in the community

Make your choices ‘green’

Benny Goodman

Good record-keeping

Joanne Squelch

Psychological care of patients undergoing elective surgery

Mark Mitchell

Delirium part two: nursing management

Ella McLafferty, Alistair Farley

Starting patients on insulin therapy: diabetes nurse specialist views

Anne Phillips

Numeracy should be a core skill in nurse development

Judith Roberts

Patients’ turning chart was standard in the 1970s

William Grier

I am still waiting for my agenda for change back pay

Margaret Park

Have we forgotten how to fight back?

Gilian Gardiner

Nursing needs to be strong before we can go on strike

lain Graham

New bursary rates penalise current students

Sarah Hooker

A bucket of hot soapy water is my key nursing implement

Kate Grant

Patients know when nursing staff feel valued

Wendy Staplehurst

I may join the exodus of uk-trained nurses

Amy Farmer

Can we really stand by as patients are ‘starved in the midst of plenty’?

Susan Holmes

Campbell’s Pathophysiology Notes

Roger Evans

Betraying the NHS - Health Abandoned

Irene Mabbott

Ethnicity, Race and Health in Multicultural Societies

Zulfkar Hussain

Partnership offers funding for fresh ideas

Ravi Kapur

Clinical errors

Jane Bates

Nurses need an act of worship

Tom Keighley, Stephen Wright

Outside in

David newnham

VOICES - nurses need an act of congress can help place nurses at the forefront of change in health care

Peter Carter

Starting out - A family death highlights the importance of communication

Carolyn Williams

Standard life - Don’t let the headlines deter you from taking up a nursing post in Australia, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - funding regulation

Paul Jebb, Julie Walden, Christopher Barber, Janet Smith

Positive thinking

Mandy Bruce

A healthy insight

Stephen Wright

Forty years on

Carol Davis

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Sue Jordan

Clindamycin and macrolides best choice in mid-pregnancy

Workers who stay in jobs after cutbacks risk their mental health

Selenium can suppress HIV viral load and increase cell count

Patients presenting to A&E having had a ‘spiked drink’

Empowering and protecting adults who have impaired mental capacity

Christian Duffin

Clarification sought for care in the eu

NMC and health department in talks over nurse-led abortions

International recruitment ban condemns nurses to poverty

Colin Parish

Gym workouts ease heart patients back into normal life

News in brief

Challenge to NICE ruling may set precedent

Attacks on NHS staff at ‘shockingly high’ levels

Computer therapy for mental health patients welcomed

Outdated technology hampered NHS Direct in polonium scare

Christian Duffin

RCN scraps act of worship following ‘vague and bland’ multi-faith service

Trusts have legal duty to end gender bias

Nurses’ surgical teamwork praised

Move to end variations in training costs

Community shift jeopardised unless GPs help to train nurses

Colin Parish

Warning of spending slowdown next year

Government decision to stage pay will cost nurses an average £6.13 a week

Unison to ballot on action against ‘pay cut by instalments’

Colin Parish

Nurses pay a weekly price

Jean Gray