Notice board

Shipshape to nurse

Stuart Pearson

Closed doors

John Aggergaard Larsen, Pam Smith, Leroi Henry

How to be money wise

Carol Davis

Learn to play hardball

Joanne Hardy

Person-centred care

Prevention of hepatitis B in travellers: pre-travel consultation

Norma Evans

Ethical aspects of withdrawing and withholding treatment

Paul Wainwright, Ann Gallagher

Factors that influence aggressive behaviour in acute care settings

Terry Ferns

Nursing students’ practice in providing oral hygiene for patients

Ann McAuliffe

It has never been safe to leave students in charge

Gill Langridge

By all means honour the dead, but don’t forget the living

Rory Collier

Care home nurses fed up with being treated as second rate

Carol Dimon

Poor hospital food may be to blame for malnutrition

Tina Hourigan

Midwifery conversion courses have been stopped

Alex Barber

Confusion over nursing and midwifery council’s role

Craig Turton

Consultants are key to improving hand hygiene

Kathleen Murphy

Nursing should get the same recognition as medicine

Samantha Grainger

Our patients need us day and night – that is what it’s about

Michelle Leslie

Wearing scrubs with outdoor shoes puts patients at risk

Sheila Murray

Nothing else has worked, so the time has come to strike

Nikki Carter

Every NSH nurse knows about poor pay and conditions

Peter Wildsmith

This government has no compassion for nurses

Eleanor Jacques

We need to stand up for ourselves as professionals and equal partners

Theodore Adonis

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

Margaret Paul

Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care - The Challenge of the Person-centred Approach

Greta McGough

Disability Rights and Wrongs

Frances Pickersgill

Non-medical Prescribing in Health Care Practice - A Toolkit for Students and Practitioners

Gary Blatch

Webwise

Marc Cornock

Football crazy

Jane Bates

Outside in

David Newnham

Outing anal cancer

Peter Tatchell

Voices - Nurses can now make themselves heard without ‘special treatment’, says Rosemary Cook

Rosemary Cook

Starting out - tube feeding excludes patients from some basic social rituals

Gail Dickinson

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - social pitfalls of family demise

Graham Houghton, Esther Tanton, Roger Cowell, Jane Scullion

Back on track

Jennifer Percival

Behind the wire

Mike Hayward

What you can do

Slavery: here and now

Alison Moore

A black and white issue

Carol Davis

Fostered children have high rates of mental health problems

Vigorous activity helps protect women from breast cancer

Special bed covers do not reduce need for steroids in asthma

Nurses as advocates for the world’s vulnerable women

Devolution delivers for Scottish nurses and patients

Jennifer Trueland

Welsh nurses stand to gain from national elections

Christian Duffin

Religious healing and cleansing can pose infection control risk

Roger Evans

A third of lecturers in east anglia face losing their jobs

Staff crisis in special care baby units

NMC seeks suspension of costly council elections

Pay, deficits and local hardships dominate carter’s first congress

Tamsin Snow

Superman protest at lack of jobs

News in brief

Top footballers donate a day’s pay to nurse fund

RCN members demand full ballot on future HQ decisions

£60m pay cut ‘hardly affects inflation’

Unison nurses want single review body

Staged pay award could lead to national action by RCN members

Tamsin Snow

Industrial action is justified

Jean Gray