Day in the life of a stroke care nurse

Redundancy terms and conditions

Risky business

Drew Payne

Solid grounding

Joanne Hardy

Notice board

Student life-Recruitment in freefall

Pauline Stuttard

Acute abdominal pain

Elizabeth Gallimore

Best practice in the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Susan Oliver

Use and application of graduated elastic compression stockings

Linda Walker, Sue Lamont

Change management for school nurses in Scotland

Elaine Allan

Gabriela Bocec Romanian Nursing Association 1939– 2007

Patricia Mary Ashworth

Health visitors are already prioritising their workloads

Sally Green

Respiratory rate is the first indicator of adverse reaction

Richard Corderoy

I was taken off the register despite sending all the forms

Linda Buckland

Administering care without empathy is not nursing

Gerry Bolger

Electronic records project disregarded patient choice

Joyce Robins

Feedback wanted on the use of colour-coded beakers

Patricia Rees

More research needed on young women’s alcohol use

Barak Ghazi

Better career development support for macmillan staff

Jessica Corner

‘Fairly clean’ wards are dirty wards, says Edwina – make her matron

Jayne Thomas

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

Margaret Paul

Excessive Medical Spending - Facing the Challenge

Elspeth Raisbeck

Surgical Nursing of Children

Valerie McGurk

Depression - The Way Out of Your Prison Third Edition

Claire Westwood

Webwise

Bob Price

Starting out - Placement visits revealed the realities of the sex trade

Amanda Gwyther

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel-Wetting the baby’s

Moyra Baldwin, Christopher Humm, Marie John, Stephen Weeks

Just rewards

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - David Newnham leans towards a nose-hair trimmer approach to buying gadgets

David Newnham

Talk the walk

Stephen Wright

Voices-The brown premiership could herald a new era for the NHS, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Mesothelioma: the facts

Fatal legacy of asbestos

Carol Davis

Recipe for finer dining

Sue Learner

The time has come to stub it out

JO Carlowe

Older people on bed rest at high risk of large muscle loss

Night work and long hours increase risk of spontaneous abortion

Cocoa lowers blood pressure but tea has no beneficial effect

The epidemiology of highly pathogenic avian influenza

Our food is fresh, organic and locally produced

Cuts in health visitor numbers could derail government plans

Elizabeth Lynch

NHS Employers boost for campaign to end workplace discrimination

Nurses urged to confront teen prejudice

Call for NHS to focus on black and minority ethnic recruitment

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Grossman criticises hospital food policy

News in brief

2012 London Olympics will need army of volunteers for clinics

Scotland sees benefits of smoking ban

‘We will treat nurses with the respect they deserve,’ say Tories

NMC plans four-day conduct inquiry after undercover TV film

Applications for nursing courses fall amid fears over job insecurity

Alison Moore

California nurses join filmmaker to demand health rights

Brown heckled for claiming ‘average nurse’ gets 5% more

Imposed pay award shocks RCN staff

Northern Ireland likely to overturn staging decision

Think tank proposes graduated ‘pay zones’to boost recruitment

Colin Parish

Grossman blames politicians for food apathy

Adele Waters

Brown says his government will listen and give nurses more power

Colin Parish

Brown’s day finally dawns

Jean Gray