‘I just wanted to start nursing’

Mike Jackson

All in a day’s work

Notice board

Student life - Spread your wings

Sue Lee

Patient dignity

Janice Cocker

Enhancing skills test your knowledge and win a £50 book token

Enhancing skills to develop practice

Bob Price

Assessing pain in patients

Ella McLafferty, Alistair Farley

Supporting mentors as assessors of clinical practice

Simon A Hyatt, Lianne Brown, Allyson Lipp

Obituary

Catriona Servo

Illuminating work on ways nurses cope with anxiety

Sally Jones

Do we really need an article on the art of bedmaking?

Catherine Parsons

Caring colleagues show we have not lost our touch

Sharon Stower

Euthanasia: there is no need to change the law

Celia Manson

Better terminal care would reduce ‘need’ for euthanasia

Alison Twycross

I left my job rather than accept lower standards

Carol Rawlings

Patients should be told about nurse redundancies – not just sick leave

Janet Jackson

Learning to Live with Huntington’s Disease – One Family’s Story

Cath Stanley

Improving Patient Outcomes – A Resource for Ward Leaders

Roger Watson

Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions – Third edition

Graeme Smith

Starting out - Hospice showed me limits of what i can change for patients

Marco Tullio Suadoni

Even in the worst of times, nursing is robust enough to make a difference

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Fatal influence

Jane Brown, Sarah Esegbona, Frances Wheatley, Elsie Gayle

Life lessons

Jane Bates

Doctors who boldly go where no doctor has gone before

David Newnham

No benefit at all

Simon Daniels

Race and gender are not raised as issues when a white man is in the frame

Sharon Dennis

How to blow the whistle safely

Anna Myers

‘I would do the same today, absolutely’

‘I suffered but it was worth it’

‘Workers fear retribution’

Blowing the whistle

Nursing talent

Kim Manley

Drinking before nights out is more likely to lead to violence

Small babies at risk of hospital admission in adolescence

How male nurses react to the assumption that they are gay

Many older women are receptive to the idea of HPV vaccination

What do nurses cost the NHS?

Keith Hurst

New professional pathways will need to be flexible and relevant to nurses’ lives

NMC uses hair follicle testing to root out alcohol and drug misuse

Laura Doherty

The smart money is on harley davidson

Ban bottle feeding symbols, says RCM

Welsh Assembly to fund more community nurse training places

News in brief

M&S customer care system has reduced nurse sickness

Accident and infection charts put on display to motivate ward team

Sarah Harrison

£3,000 golden hello despite ‘no shortage’ claim

£1.9 million study will examine whether exercise eases depression in care homes

Karlene Davis to stand down as RCM leader

Employers support all-graduate future but with branch training

Tamsin Snow

NMC study calls for nurses to be degree educated

Home office wants nurses to share data with police

Future of workforce is up for grabs

Nia’s novel approach is a hit

Pay increase of 2 per cent a year is not good enough, says Carter

Sarah Harrison, Bill Doult

Welcome the whistleblower

Jean Gray