Information explosion

Rachel Swinglehurst

Where there’s smoke …

Kath Sharples

Notice board

Where there’s smoke…

Karen Elcock

Record-keeping

Optimising glycaemic control for patients starting insulin therapy

Brenda Capaldi

Common conditions and practical considerations in eye care

Sue Watkinson, Ramesh Seewoodhary

The need for a global response to antimicrobial resistance

Sue Campbell

Punctuality should be on the curriculum – for tutors too

Marc Kay

Penalise patients who fail to keep their nhs appointments

Martin Freeman

My first job makes me feel positive about nursing

Gayle de Souza

RCN forums help raise the profile of the college

Muriel Butt

Jobs for gordon’s chums – some things never change

Sandrine Clements

Some things are difficult to learn – that is the way it is

Mary-lynne Forbes

Axeing the forums will drive members away from the RCN

Deborah Critchley

Do not abolish RCN forums – they are a valuable resource

Jean Roger

Expose workplace bullies and half the battle is won

Catch-22 – I cannot get a job without experience or experience without a job

Jean McCubbin

Hospital Acquired Infections - Power Strategies for Clinical Practice

Dinah Gould

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care

Annie Chellel

Nearing Death Awareness - A Guide to the Language, Visions, and Dreams of the Dying

Wendy Boothroyd

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Gill Oliver

Send in your stories of nursing 20 years ago

Find your own pathway masterfile

Anne Diamond

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Risks and rewards

Jane Brown, Christopher Humm, Marie John, Stephen Weeks

Starting out i am thankful that healthcare assistants are there to help

Merrymaking

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

First name terms

Stephen Wright

Foiled by an inflexible system for booking appointments

Sharon Dennis

Surviving the tsunami

Lucy Haylock

Keeping food local

David Calverley

Course resource

Claire Mulvey

A walk on the mild side

Mandy Bruce

Special deliverers

Carol Davis

Deficits in knowledge about allergy among restaurant staff

Dislike of school is risk factor for drinking in adolescent boys

Hepatitis C increases risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Adapting the US physician assistant role for Scotland

Redundant nurse defends mothers’rights

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Service reform watchdog is missing out on nurses’ views

Tamsin Snow

Standardised wristband ruling to improve patient safety checks

Colin Parish

Nursing school staff suspended for blasphemy

HIV and safer sex knowledge poor in general population

Controversy over gay sexual health services

Domestic violence leaves gorilla in intensive care

Lone worker survey finds trusts failing to act on nurse protection

Tamsin Snow

Call for training in dementia care

Nurses stay in flooded school to help children

News in brief

England’s nursing directors get £50 million to spend on improving infection control

Pay protests in Poland fail to win better offer from prime minister

Rough ride for hewitt was ‘a mistake’

Brown says staff will lead service changes

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

Detention powers for nurses

Praise for resilience after Glasgow attack

NMC Quizzed on overseas recruits

Army considers salary boost

11th-hour talks to avoid action could end ‘ludicrous’ pay divide

Colin Parish

Staff safety is paramount

Jean Gray