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Battlefield nursing

Major Anton Philpott

Student life-A big adventure

Darren Orritt

Diabetes management

Jennifer Armitage

Promoting self-awareness in nurses to improve nursing practice

Kirsten Jack, Anne Smith

Understanding the role of proteases and pH in wound healing

Ioana Rushton

Caesarean section, surgical site infection and wound management

Dinah Gould

An introduction to ethics in nursing

Chris Chaloner

Learning style preferences of undergraduate nursing students

Goolam Hussein Rassool, Salman Rawaf

NHS direct acted to protect patient confidentiality

Simon Barber

Community team helped me through perinatal depression

Nykoma Hamilton

Zero-tolerance missing in acute mental health

Louissa Friend

Cut chaplaincy services as a matter of national policy

John Hunt

Let us retain nursing’s christian traditions

Angela Springett

IT programme has been a disaster from the start

Harry Walport

Woolly minded ideas give life coaching a bad name

Magda Schnelle

Educate the public not to misuse hospital A&E

Shola Otubanjo

Collective act of worship is important at congress

Derek Blackshaw

Nursing is a profession, not a christian vocation

Jayne Thomas

RCN misunderstands what an act of worship is about

Stephen Wright

Drop the sentimentality and adopt a market approach to pay rises

Valerie John-Charles

Managing for Health

Sara Garland

The Seven Ages of Woman - A Lifetime Guide to Feeling Good

Kathy Abernethy

Prevention of Blindness from Diabetes Mellitus - Report of a WHO Consultation

Linda Drake

Webwise

Bruce Lindsay

Heartsink

Jane Bates

Outside in

David Newnham

Resist censorship

Kevin Coyne

Voices-Bizarre accounting rules made the NHS deficit worse, says Sharon Dennis

Sharon Dennis

Starting out - Blood sugar spiked when drugs were given at the wrong time

Marco Tullio Suadoni

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Impact on climate change

Dean-David Holyoake, Frances Wheatley, Jane Brown, Kate Chapman

How influence can lead to change

Rosemary Cook

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

Margaret Paul

Who do you think you are?

Stephen Wright, Jean Sayre-Adams

Principles for nutrition and hydration

A taste for change

Men under strain at work have increased blood pressure

New model accurately predicts pregnancy in subfertile couples

Garlic in any form does not reduce blood lipid levels

How cancer survivors talk about and experience time

Two days a week to bring the NHS into line

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Profession bids for worldwide recognition

Nurse practitioners launch company to fill gap in non-emergency care

Marathon chase for Road Runners

New guidance for ‘first in man’ clinical trials

NMC proposal tobangifts‘could harm staff-patient relationships’

Christian Duffin

Half of UK nurses say patients are at risk of malnutrition

Adele Waters

Surveillance tightened in C.difficile fight

Report calls for overhaul of UK diabetes services

News in brief

RCN president demands ‘pay justice’ for staff

Projects help reduce suicides

Postgraduate research needs better funding

Nurse-led

Christian Duffin

Paygap grows for public sector

Art, drama, music and poetry are integral to the NHS, says review

NHS deficits cost 22,000 posts, says RCN report

‘We stand shoulder to shoulder until the government pays up’

Tamsin Snow

Here’s food for thought

Jean Gray