Notice board

Difficult conversations

Kerry Stott

Erectile dysfunction

Angie Thornes

Syphilis: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

Ian Peate

Monitoring and recording patients’ neurological observations

Emma Dawes, Hilary Lloyd, Lesley Durham

Complexities of policy-driven pre-registration nursing curricula

Jillian McCarthy, Maxine Holt

Train more nurses in africa and ensure they are paid well

Ann Kivet

What is nursing doing to address gender imbalance?

Alan Mallett

Disappointing criticism of an inexperienced student

Amy Cray

Abortion opt out does not contravene code of conduct

Beverley Haughton

We must be careful not to impose our values on patients

Scott Justice

Pain assessment tool offers help where others cannot

Claud Regnard, Lynn Gibson, Dorothy Matthews

Mileage allowances are set out in afc handbook

Andrew Courage

Expenses of ‘only’ 30p a mile? i am tempted to move there

Rose Bird

Harvard and vancouver need to be recognised as standard

Marc Kay

I feel more valued by my patients than by some older colleagues

Henry Curran

Working with Risk - Trainer’s and Practitioner’s Manuals

Sally Mansfield

Assisted Living for Our Parents - A Son’s Journey

Gillian Hurst

Nursing Care of Children and Young People with Chronic Illness

John Thain

Starting out - End of life care was exemplary

Denise Sharp

Problem drinking

Karen Pack

The pointless rehashing of NHS bodies brings out the Eeyore in Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Television on trial

Paul Jebb, Christopher Barber, Julie Clarke

In touch

Jane Bates

Powerful presence

Stephen Wright

Voices - There is no shame in admitting that you have lost the clinical touch

Sharon Dennis

Promote brand you

Lynne Wallis

David Newnham leaps to the defence of cold sores

David Newnham

Eating family dinner may reduce girls’ alcohol consumption

White cell count can predict cancer in older women

Eating apples and fish in pregnancy protects children

US supermarket clinics are popular with all but doctors

Nightingale’s work lives on

Frances Pickersgill

Ray of hope

Jane Salvage

Pandora maps the complexity of what clinical nurse specialists actually do

Adele Waters

Shake-up in education and careers will push nursing in new directions

Sarah Harrison

Reclaim the spirit

Helen Wordsworth

Dying art

Ann Richardson

Homebirth midwife gets 18-month NMC caution

Staff strike in support of nurse sacked for criticising trust cuts

Christian Duffin

BAPEN nutrition pack available to download

Trust uses Facebook website to link up staff and patients

Botox ruling imminent

News in brief

Be lowered hearings

Nurse pursues new forensic role

Standard of proof may for fitness to practise

Bill Doult, Sarah Harrison

Specialists bring in huge savings

Three-point plan for older falls patients

Unions reject claim that pay rise will endanger services and jobs

Tamsin Snow

Overpaid, says government

Workers outside London are

Marchers take to city streets to protest against NHS redundancies and job cuts

Call for a 35-hour week for NHS staff

GPs warn of freeze in practice nurse salaries

13,000 Nurses ready to quit in pay dispute

Staffing tool helps to fill skill gaps

Experts dismiss claim that pay rise over 2% will drive up inflation

Tamsin Snow

Missing the point on pay

Gray Jean