Student nursing award

Child health award

Nursing innovations in criminal settings award

Mental health nursing award

Innovation in continence care award

Award for nursing initiatives to combat malnutrition

Learning disability nursing award

Community and general nursing award

Robert tiffany international award

Diversity in health award

Award for innovation in cancer nursing

Developing intelligent feelings

Jain Anbu

Winning is a big boost

Lynne Wallis

Notice board

Student life - Crunch the numbers

Benny Goodman

Obstructive sleep apnoea

Rose Gallacher

Promoting good nutrition in patients with dementia

Beverley Hallpike

A practical guide to venepuncture and blood sampling

Katie Scales

Research shows perils of incorrect epi-pen handling

Marco Suadoni

Allow nurses to prescribe all controlled drugs

Rosalyn Carlilel

Lord mancroft should alert fellow peers to the facts

Fiona Frost

Speaking like robots would solve nothing

Ilona Smith

I met a real-life version of dickens’s nurse from hell

Pat Beeden

Apathetic staff will get the pay rise they deserve

Malcolm Harrison

Some ‘suicide websites’ are life-saving resources

Protectionist nurses stand in the way of truly holistic patient care

June Clark

The Philosophy of Nurse Education

Greta McGough

Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing

Tim Collins

Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions – Second edition

Anthony Fraher

Starting out - The day i learned to bewary of leaving dad holding the baby

Pauline Jones

Forget all this twaddle about values – let’s hear it for the mission statement

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Dignity is kept at bay

Sue Szczepanska, Paul Jebb, Kate Tantam, Shamiso Simango

Drive-thru GP

Jane Bates

Beware of burnt-out cars and stolen spuds, warns David Newnham

David Newnham

The chants of a lifetime

Stephen Wright

Elizabeth Anionwu urges nurses not to miss a once in a lifetime experience

Elizabeth Anionwu

Patients thank their champions

Edwina Currie

Nurse role in Malta

Alison Moore

Oily fish consumption improves grip strength in older people

Back pain soars among long haul female flight attendants

‘I dread the idea of becoming a patient’

Bring back the pride in nursing

What do you think needs to be done to improve UK nursing practice?

First uniforms confused us and now job titles do too

Naomi Forsyth

Growing up on a farm using pesticide risks asthma in women

Prevalence of pain in sickle-cell disease is underestimated

Unions attack increase in jobless figures for graduates

Nurses lead project to improve compassionate care in Scotland

Jennifer Trueland

General practice standards may boost nurse pay

News in brief

Trusts ‘must honour training obligations’

Judges select 2008 winners

Last chance to buy extra pension years

Award finalist highlights paediatric shortages

Pay rise may be later than April as review body completes its report

Regulator to face accusations of racism at employment tribunal

Colin Parish, Snow Tamsin

Modern matrons lack the power to enforce cleanliness standards

Colin Parish

Wash your hands or face disciplinary action, staff told

Winning solutions

Jean Gray