Up to the challenge?

Nicola Burwood

Of course you can study

Elspeth Raisbeck

Up to the challenge?

Nicola Burwood

Time to branch out

Stuart Keeling

Use of the British National Formulary

Paul Burkitt

Infusion therapy part two: prevention and management of complications

Janice Gabriel

Pain assessment and management in patients with chronic wounds

Richard J White

Management options for patients with pretibial lacerations

Pauline Beldon

Simple spirometry measurement

Rachel Booker

Isabel Menzies Lyth

Christine Hancock

An act of worship is back at this year’s rcn congress

Stephen Wright

Patient independence is no excuse for inadequate care

Jacqueline Flindall

Bigger bursaries would be a better use of £99 million

Charles Sloan

Healthy nutrition is more complex than a low-fat diet

Claire Picton

Online chats are also bound by regulatory standards

Ross Mawhinney

Promoting occupational health is a role for us all

Cynthia Atwell

We are too close to overruling patients’ wishes

Yvonne Potter

I do not share the delight in a pay offer that is outweighed by bills

David Gwilliam

Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing

Stephen Callaghan

Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal and Utilization – Sixth Edition

Irene Mabbott

Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice

Mike Jackson

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Alcohol can fight cancer

Monica Dobie

How i learned to be calm and unafraid in the face of death

Amy Cray

Standard life: Daniel Allen does his bit for the planet by putting toilet rolls in the recycling bin

Daniel Allen

Readers panel: Is it good to talk?

Linda Drake, Stephen Weeks, Mike Lehane, Alison Crumbie

Tie breaker

Jane Bates

Outside in: Will pharmacists offer the GP experience we crave?

David Newnham

Heart and soul

Stephen Wright

Finding a loo when out shopping is about to get easier

Linda Thomas

Giving spirometry results as lung age helps smokers quit

A spoonful of sugar helps children’s vaccination go down

Short course triple therapy useful in Helicobacter pylori

How recurrent changes can affect nurses’ distress levels

Review body stands strong against ‘disappointing’government pressure

Why I chose ICROSS

Maura Buchanan

Power to the people

Lynne Pearce

The final log off for suicide sites

Jo Carlowe

Tea and empathy

Carol Davis

One size does not fit all – some patients prefer text messages to empathetic care

Staff express unease over late abortions

Review of NMC to be with ministers next month

NHS trust to reconsider pay offer

Targets fuel pressure to discharge patients early

First-year students’ caring attitude slips as their course progresses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

No dignity for older people on hospital ‘conveyor belt’

Patients missing out on crucial specialist services

Dedicated teams to deliver mass HPV immunisation programme

Jennifer Trueland

Sacked nurses given conference platform

Something is going wrong with nurse training, government admits

Tamsin Snow

High malnutrition risk for older people transferring to hospital

Trusts turn to private agency for staffing

When the PM popped in for a ‘cuppa’

Rejection of multi-year deal may lead to staged award, unions fear

Tamsin Snow, Sarah Harrison

Trusts urged to recruit locally to save the planet

Robust and independent

Jean Gray