Project yourself

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Less lonely at the top

Frances Pickersgill

Conveyor belt care

Russell Palmer

Prostate cancer

Liz Piper

Promoting nutrition for people with mental health problems

Alan Bottomley, Jane McKeown

Implications of high maternal weight during pregnancy

Emma Derbyshire

Patient rehabilitation following lower limb amputation

Maria Kelly, Maura Dowling

Do you have any experience of crisis home treatment?

Lynn Miller

Early contender for this century’s daftest comment

Stephen Weeks

NHS employers in need of a wake-up call over napping

Dawn Sharples

Night staff work well in excess of eight-hour shifts

Alan Mawbey

The army is fishing for nurses in a small pool

David Rawlings

Scared? maybe it is just the armed forces being too picky

Richard Owen

Department of health float at london pride a great asset

Vic Thomas

Improve pre-registration learning disability training

Sean Elder

A wealth of health resources for all nurses is just a password away

Anne Cosgrove

Foundations of Health and Social Care

Gordon Valentine

Rural District Nursing in Gloucestershire 1880-1925

Bruce Lindsay

Older People and Mental Health Nursing – A Handbook of Care

Charles Sloan

Laughter about ‘senior moments’ rings hollow

David Newnham

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Fat is a political issue

Anne Diamond

Standard life – Disappointment about NHS bigotry weighs heavy on me

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Am sick, will travel

Roger Cowell, Esther Tanton, Jane Scullion, Elsie Gayle

A patient taught me about cognitive ability after stroke

Natasa Thompson

Time to teach

Jane Bates

Fitting farewell

Janet Smith

Russian colleagues remind us to feel proud of our good work

Rosemary Cook

Sexual health innovators

Carol Davis

Where age is no barrier

Carol Davis

Headache patients could benefit from better history-taking

Cigarette sales fall while other tobacco and cigar use is on the up

Two-times teen mothers face high risks for second baby

Government delivers health message to nurses in bid to cut absenteeism

Message of hope

Mary-Claire Mason

Patch vaccine protects travellers against acute diarrhoea

Husband gives up fight for justice over wife’s death

Word changes reflect RCN’s widening remit

Obama outlines his health agenda to nurses in the US

Dignity could improve at one in three trusts

Call for national workforce plan to attract and retain older nurses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Military nurse awarded rare Royal Red Cross

Laura Doherty

RCN to spread nutrition campaign lessons across Wales

News in brief

Extra training modules for nurse prescribers rejected by NMC

Ruling on drug error quashed

Industrial action rule may change

Child obesity plan ‘will fail without more school nurses’

Trusts urged to step up pest control

Ward managers need autonomy to prevent fatal infections, report says

NMC chief executive departs as new president takes up office

Tamsin Snow

No more excuses for being fobbed off

Review group calls for a radical shake-up of student allowances

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Adequate funding is crucial

Jean Gray