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Power of effective communication

Tess Keane

What makes a good nurse?

Kerry Stott

Student life What makes a good nurse?

Kerry Stott

Urinary tract infection

Rebecca Maggs

Promoting patient dignity in healthcare settings

Milika Matiti, Elizabeth Cotrel-Gibbons, Kevin Teasdale

Evidence for skeletal pin site care

Jennie April Walker

Development of a tool to examine the effect of venous ulcers on patients’ quality of life

Simon Palfreyman, Jonathan Michaels, John Brazier

Neurovascular assessment

Nicola L Judge

Running a nurse-led Chlamydia testing service

Kirsten Kernaghan

Of course more patients will die if there are fewer nurses

Obrey Alexis

Respect the older person’s right to have a sex life

Jennifer Crane

Forums provide a valuable professional resource

Jenny Aston

Websites are a fraction of the work of forums

Ali Bowden

I urge the rcn to think again about axeing the forums

BJ Waltho

Abolition of forums would not bother most members

Scott Justice

Nutrition now campaign is obvious but necessary

Hilda Jackson

Stop trying to make the NHS a business: its role is to care

David Harding-Price

Students feel excluded by handovers that are too early

Steve Lightfoot

Relief comes for nursing student as light dawns on temporal disjunction

Val Moore

Webwise

Greta Thornbory

Clinical Nursing Practices - Fifth Edition

Julie Scholes

Insulin Murders - True Life Cases

Tim Madge

Annual Review of Eating Disorders: Part 1 - 2007

Susan Holmes

Voices - how we can produce a new generation of community nurse leaders

Rosemary Cook

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

Margaret Paul

Like a rat in a trap

Chris Rodenhurst

Starting out - Simple encouragementwas all a client needed to get moving

Una Duffy

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Do nurses have a responsibility to be healthy role models? We asked our readers panel

Julie Clarke, Paul Jebb, Christopher Barber, Julie Harrison

Dark secrets

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Think of the children

AL Aynsley-Green

Malawi and me

Jennifer Trueland

‘Our patients feel safe’

Lynne Pearce

When care breaks down

Immune response to varicella zoster virus improved by t’ai chi

High meat and fat diet increases risk of developing skin cancer

VRE can be treated with yoghurt containing probiotics

Epidemiology of cutaneous head and neck melanoma

Eviction of elderly is ‘lawful’ despite the human rights act

Petra Kendall-Raynor

40 per cent of nurses harassed or assaulted while working alone

Tamsin Snow

PCT drops in favour

Tamsin Snow

Two nurse MPs oppose each other across Commons

Dementia funding ‘would be better spent on nursing’

Death sentences

Director of nursing role of using a consultancy

Libya to decide on

News in brief

Pregnant refugees ‘put at risk’

Conflict management course wins university accreditation

Switching care from hospital to polyclinic ‘may prove too costly’

Tamsin Snow

Survey prompts trust to help staff lose weight

Ministers dash union hopes and refuse to budge on staged award

Colin Parish

Bursaries to rise by 2.5 per cent for students in scotland

New chancellor ‘will stick to inflation target’

Heavy workloads and job insecurity lead to fall in morale, survey shows

Public believes nurses’ pay award is unfair

Nurses are barred from offering patients the food they most want

Adele Waters

Historic show of strength

Jean Gray