Young minds

Tim McDougall

Student life-Application required

Kerry Stott

Anaphylaxis

Hardy Joanne

Nutrition and eating difficulties in hospitalised older adults

Susan Holmes

Nursing management of patients who are nil by mouth

Nicola Whiteing, Janet Hunter

Maintaining an airway

Philip Jevon

Upcoming events to address the state of nursing

Gary Jones

Comfort drives choice of footwear on 12-hour shift

Lynn Laidlaw

Silence over drift to euthanasia must be broken

Christine Havers

Broadside at Christians seemed ill-informed

Anthony Carr

Irrelevant placement will leave me ill-prepared

Industrial muscle has given train drivers decent pay

Jill Straiton

I would rather lose my job than let patients suffer

Basic skills need more emphasis at training level

Sharon Whitmarsh

The authors’ response:

Jacqueline Bloomfield, Anne Pegram

Guide to basic bedmaking is a sad indictment on the state of nursing

Andrew Makin

Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health

Greta Thornbory

Cardiac Nursing – Second edition

John Albarran

Medicine Balls – Consultations with the World’s Greatest TV Doctor

Jane Salvage

Starting out - My first placement taught me so much about how to really listen

Robyn Stratton

Resist the temptation to blame nurse managers for the profession’s woes

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - The time isn’t right

Paul Jebb , Julie Clarke, Julie Harrison, Christopher Barber

In the balance

Jane Bates

Washing the car feels like brushing with the apocalypse for David Newnham

David Newnham

Every little counts

Jenny Griffiths

Linda Thomas knows a great way to satisfy middle-age wanderlust

Linda Thomas

Time for nurses to lead

Unhealthy states

Barbara Blakeney

A challenging approach

Kim Manley

Learning how to listen

Michael Davidson

Delivering change

Lynne Pearce

Asian tsunami leaves long-term legacy of anxiety disorders

Hypersensitivity to alcohol more common in people with asthma

Higher aspirin dosage reduces the risk of colorectal cancer

The impact on family life of a child with an eating disorder

‘Payment by Results tariff must change to reflect value of nursing’

David Newbold

When will the caring profession care for itself?

Margaret Stubbs

Voting opens for nurse who made most difference to patients’lives

Tamsin Snow

Research triggers questions about antidepressant efficacy

Nurses told to empathise with self-harmers

Hiroshima survivors discuss health disaster planning

£7,000 Raised for seacole statue

Patients feel secure and better cared for on Nightingale wards

Sarah Harrison

Recruitment needs creative thinkers, says senior nurse

Admissions tutors use whodunnit game in hunt for best students

Tamsin Snow

More graduates are struggling to find jobs

Unions protest against prison overcrowding

News in brief

Trust downgrading threat could lead to industrial action

Matron and shorter sleeves deployed in battle against C. difficile deaths

Check your contract, pay auditor urges

Nurses design meningitis kit

Whistleblowers’ fight continues

Minister to look into allegations of racism and bullying at NMC

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

Lord launches tirade against ‘slipshod’ nurses

Cost control is happening at the expense of staff views, says survey

Tamsin Snow

Old slur belies deeper point

Jean Gray