Act it, copy it, be it

Mandy Bruce

Count on FANYs in an emergency

Lynne Wallis

From A to Z

Jan Richards

Assessing leg ulcers

Maina Pedersen

Meeting the information needs of patients with chronic heart failure

Fergal Searson

Theory and practice of manual blood pressure measurement

Alison Cork

Urine samples and urinalysis

Martin J Steggall

Supporting parents caring for a child with a learning disability

Anne Fitzpatrick, Maura Dowling

Correction

Pandora helps clinical nurse specialists explain their role

Alison Leary

Government assurances on data cannot be trusted

Peter Murphy

Mothers are confused by promotion of baby formula

Gwen Knight

‘Forbidden foods’ are not part of the buddhist way

Maitreyabandhu

I have my own top tips for coping with short staffing on the wards

Maria Shaw

The Child in Mind - A Child Protection Handbook: Revised edition

Liz Gormley-Fleming

Stop Smoking Stay Cool - A Dedicated Smoker’s Guide to Not Smoking

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Lose Weight! Get Laid! Find God! The All-in-One Life Planner

Roger Evans

Saturday

Rosemary Cook

The Naughty Girl’s Guide to Life

Zeba Arif

Sovereign

Daniel Allen

The Nature of Unhappiness

David Newnham

Half of a Yellow Sun

Elizabeth Anionwu

The Victorians

Jane Bates

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

Linda Thomas

Two Caravans

Jean Gray

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

Stephen Wright

House of Meetings

Peter Carter

Starting out - Sheer variety of work proves the value of health visitors

Amy Cray

Standard life - The festive season is forcing Daniel Allen to lay bare his warm and grateful side

Daniel Allen

Birthday wishes

Jane Scullion, Graham Houghton, Roger Cowell, Esther Tanton

A breath of fresh air

Simon Daniels

Night terrors

Jane Bates

It is time to think positive and reassess our approach to HIV, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Comme ci, comme ça

Judy Mewburn

My first medical ward

Liz Cort

Talking it through

Drew Payne

It shouldn’t happen to a nurse

Linda Drake

All about dignity

Catharine Sadler

Getting to the top of the tree

Notice board

Recurrence of colon cancer lower with healthy diet pattern

Spray but not other cleaners pose asthma risk for adults

Mortality rate from pneumonia reduced in vaccinated people

Amateur boxing and risks of chronic traumatic brain injury

Question of honours

Strike action

Animals have needs too

High drama punctuates a year of pay recriminations

Top Talent programme aims to develop bme leaders

Yvonne Coghill

Cancer care reforms will increase number of clinical nurse specialists

Graham Scott

Car mileage rates set to rise

Trusts not following NICE guidance are ‘missing out on cash’

Smokers might quit if they had to have a permit, says former Blair adviser

Stroke detection training to help nurses save lives

News in brief

HCAs bear brunt of workplace injuries

Nurses’ wages still lower than the UK average

NHS could afford 4 per cent pay rise ‘but politicians are against it’

Tamsin Snow

Demand for better cardiac services

Former patients are remembered

Overseas nurses hit by work permit changes

Mental health patients get raw deal on mixed-sex wards

Business have made

Tamsin Snow

New competency standards for learning disability nurses

Stamp of approval for nursing history

Opinion divided over need for third part of the NMC register

Sarah Harrison

Searing insight into the NHS

Jean Gray