Choose the right company

Alison Jenkins

Notice board

To Russia with care

Ros Lowe

Pulling power

Joanne Hardy

Epidural analgesia

Eugenia Hernandez

Cognitive behavioural therapy for patients with anxiety and depression

Joe Curran, Catherine Machin, Kevin Gournay

Cognitive behavioural therapy for patients with anxiety and depression

Joe Curran, Catherine Machin, Kevin Gournay

The use of advanced biological and tissue-engineered wound products

Mark Collier

Management of tissue excoriation in older patients with urinary or faecal incontinence

Dale Copson

Preparing to undertake research in the NHS: the novice’s guide

S Joanne Reynolds

Enhancing the care of older people in the community

Jacqueline Metcalfe

Mary Carpenter RCN director of education 1908–2006

Laurence Dopson

I am privileged because i can use my emotions at work

Catherine Cook, Milton Keynes

Accusations of bullying can be used as easy weapons

Keeping a patient’s dignity should be paramount for all

Norah Miller

Dumbed down standards are being forced on the NHS

Valerie Griffiths

Carer involvement in feeding patients has great potential

Scott Justice

Guaranteed work experience needed for new graduates

John Baron MP

How can we practice safely with these workloads?

Jane Bovey, Salisbury

‘Better’ use of resources means worse patient care

Lisa Scott

We have to be careful that training is not at the expense of experience

June Gooch

Primary Care Mental Health – An Interactive Toolkit for Professionals Working with Common Mental Health Problems

Anthony Fraher

The Reality of Nursing Research - Politics, Practices and Processes

Clare Bennett

Exercise, health and mental health – emerging relationships

Liz Cort

Exercise, Health and Mental Health - Emerging Relationships

Liz Cort

Primary Care Mental Health - An Interactive Toolkit for Professionals Working with Common Mental Health Problems

Anthony Fraher

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

Margaret Paul

The reality of nursing research – politics, practices and processes

Clare Bennett

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

Voices - Elizabeth Anionwu is delighted by increased student confidence

Elizabeth Anionwu

Outside In

David Newnham

Is it all in the mind?

Bríd Hehir

Righteous anger

Jane Bates

Starting out - helping parents to grieve was a privilege i will never forget

Julia Thomas

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel

Janet Smith, Steve Flatt, Christopher Humm, Sue Szczepanska

Nursing by numbers

Keith Hurst

Keeping patients safe

Jeremy Benton

Information could reduce deaths from drug overdoses

Pregnancy outcome adversely affected by antidepressants

Failure to recognise nuts puts allergic children at risk

Sounds from creaking knees offer fast arthritis diagnosis

How much longer can nurses be expected to cope and ‘make do’?

Board members talk more about cash and targets than patient care

Nurses challenge ‘unfair ban’ by health secretary

Back to the ward floor

Feeding charts help stroke patients

NMC agrees lower standard of proof in misconduct hearings

Colin Parish

New roles ‘could prevent staff leaving Scotland’

Non-white nurses twice as likely to experience bullying at work

Paul dinsdale

News in brief

Job cuts cannot be avoided, Hewitt tells community nurses

Dame June takes stand against RCN sale

Tories push for paid work experience

New year start for RCN general secretary

Unions insist on above-inflation award to counter price rises and low morale

Services ‘will suffer’ unless staff accept 1.5 per cent pay rise

Colin Parish

Blair dismisses estimates of job cuts

Surgical patient deaths highest on poorly staffed wards, study shows

Colin parish

New weapons in the fight

Tim Madge