Making the most of retirement

Notice board

Enterprising moves

Ami David, Stephanie Stanwick

Student life - Rules of engagement

Benny Goodman

Clostridium difficile

Suzy Heywood

Providing psychological support for patients with cancer

Richard Towers

Procedure for pregnancy testing

Sarah Kraszewski

Educational interventions for patients receiving psychotropic medication

The effects of undernutrition in hospitalised patients

Susan Holmes

Reality tv needs to recruit nurses as expert advisers

Lee Davis

North west wales needs to rethink its nutrition policy

Susan Holmes

Home delivery should be confined to pizza

Sarah Evans

Active gay men should be offered syphilis screening

Chris Lane

Pandora computer model may not be the right way to go

June Clark

The word ‘god’ should be spelt with a capital ‘G’

Eileen Ferguson

Belief in god helps me to get through the working day

Bette McMullan

Ministers would not cover for absent colleagues

Patricia Arrowsmith

Biting the heads off jelly babies to relieve tension – whatever next?

Nettie Thompson

Thermogenesis

Paul Sayer

Psychological Management of Physical Disabilities - A Practitioner’s Guide

Greta McGough

International Council of Nurses - Advanced Nursing Practice

Jane Salvage

Starting out - At last, i found a way to connect with a lonely hospice patient

Claire Metcalfe

Action now on obesity could save millions of lives

Anne Diamond

A slight fall in violence rates against nurses is nothing to be grateful for, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Life or death role

Carol Singleton, Mike Lehane, Scott Justice

Filling the gap

Jane Bates

David Newnham gets ticklish about putting on his socks

David Newnham

Back in control

Joe Harper

Voices - Nominate a deserving colleague for a Nurse 2008 award, says Linda Thomas

Linda Thomas

Life sentence

Lynne Wallis

Higher connection

Ros Moore

Keeping the peace

Carol Davis

Statins less likely to be given to people with schizophrenia

Restricting formula and breast milk could prevent anaemia

Removing household mould helps symptoms in people with asthma

How bullying is initiated in the public sector workplace

The malnutrition myth: age isn‛t everything

Adele Waters

Ignoring blood clot advice resulted in 10,700 deaths, all-party group claims

Trusts urged to set up patient deterioration recognition groups

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Injured midwife wins compensation

RCM fails to get ban on formula milk promotion

Fears for homeless pregnant women forced to sleep rough

News in brief

Busy wards ‘not linked to MRSA’

Manchester staff could be reported to the NMC by trust

Funds dry up so retired nurses may have to leave charity homes

Alison Moore

Finnish nurses get off their knees

Simulated learning hours raised to 300

Change to standard of proof now likely earlier than expected

Botox guidance issued at last

NMC set to for Code of decide on rewording professional conduct

Sarah Harrison

Diversity and equality strategy is drawn up

Trusts warned about dangers of not meeting race obligations

SHAs siphon £357m from funds earmarked for staff education

Christian Duffin

Education, education, education

Tim Madge