Here to help

Cliona O Conaill

Notice board

Not always greener

Kerry Stott

Urinary catheterisation in male patients

Joanne Hardy

Insulin therapy in the management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes

Maureen Wallymahmed

Insulin therapy in the management of type 1 and 2 diabetes

Maureen Wallymahmed

Essential skills for students who are returning to study

Charles Hendry, Alistair H Farley

Nurse-led dysphagia screening in acute stroke patients

Liz Lees, Linda Sharpe, Amanda Edwards

Charlotte kratz

Laurence Dopson

Regulatory fees can be reclaimed as tax relief

Vanessa Brooks-Oke

Nottingham job losses are a crying shame

Malcolm Harrison

We are all responsible for the stigma of HIV and AIDS

Maxine Owen

Nursing standard website very useful for students

Nicola Byers

Training fewer nurses makes sense in this climate

Gillian Brook

A recent spell as a patient opened my eyes as a nurse

Rebecca Jones

I was wrong to insist that patients be told the truth

Jan Green

I may have to drop out of my course because of ridiculous housing rules

Sally Dixon

Dealing with Death - A Handbook of Practices, Procedures and Law: Second edition

Marc Cornock

Dealing with death – a handbook of practices, procedures and law:second edition

Marc Cornock

The Handbook of Communication Skills - Third edition

Ian Birkinshaw

CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals - Introducing a Schema-focused Approach

Graham Sloan

CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals – Introducing a Schema-focused Approach

Graham Sloan

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

Margaret Paul

The Handbook of Communication Skills – Third edition

Ian Birkinshaw

Webwise

Liz Gormley-Fleming

Busy doing nothing

Stephen Wright

The science bit

Keith Nuthall

Voices - Core nursing values should be at the heart of careers reform, says Chris Beasley

OutsideIn - David Newnham tries to get into a new spirit of communication

David Newnham

Glimpse of our future

Andrew Hart

Foot in mouth

Jane Bates

Starting out - we must always challenge bad practice, even from a consultant

Arabella Penwarden

Stuck in the here and now? then now is the time to break free, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Graduates get on their bikes

Chiccoe Moyo, Linda Drake, Kate Chapman, Chris Mayer

Science: nursing’s big secret

Sioban Nelson

What training is given to healthcare assistants?

Stand and deliver

Jane Redfern Jones

Me and my mentor

Sekayi Tangayi

Credit where it’s due

Alison Moore

Short-term rewards

‘I have seen nursing come of age’

Colin Parish

Negative colonoscopy predicts low risk of colorectal cancer

Swabs taken via the nose give better results in otitis media

Aortic ruptures less common in people on ACE inhibitor drugs

Lancet editor defends his journal’s coverage of iraq

Fears over decontamination ‘super-centres’

Performance system welcomed

NHS employers says nurses are the staff most likely to suffer bullying

Colin Parish

Double gloving recommended for low-risk surgical procedures

Colin Parish

Alcohol rubs as effective as hand scrubbing

Do not phone after a major incident – just turn up

A third of needlestick injuries easily avoidable, expert says

Crying in the corridors over job cuts

Department of health in pay disarray, say nursing unions

Environment needs care too, RCN AGM to hear

Patients will lie about symptoms to get Alzheimer’s treatment

Tamsin Snow

Tuned up for colon test

Pilot sites to test community treatment

News in brief

Patients approve of nurse-led cancer service

Mary Seacole awards boost BME research projects

Summit on older people’s dignity puts paid to designated role

Tamsin Snow

NMC urges four-month support period for all new nurses

Survey finds 44 per cent of new graduates still looking for a job

Colin Parish

A waste of nursing talent

Jean Gray