Crossing the aid hurdles

Andrew Clarke

Crossing the aid hurdles

Andrew Clarke

One step ahead of an error

Joanna Parker, Alison Huggett

Student life - My first job is at a hospice

Rebecca Blackwell

Nutrition and the older patient

Thornes Angie

Undertaking a research project: guidance for nursing students

Dinah Gould

A pilot evaluation of the Arts for Life project in end-of-life care

Ann Gallagher

Use of complementary therapies to treat patients with HIV/AIDS

Richard Palmer

Commission’s call is correct, but impossible at present

Gareth Price

CPD Investment is essential if you want the best staff

Matt Griffiths

I would like to hear from infection control nurses

Maria Garrett-Marley

Can you help find these people for the RCN celebrations?

Ann McMahon

Ensure you maintain your access to online resources

Susan Oliver

Experience of cancer will complement my future work

Vanessa Stapleton

Nurse recruitment system fundamentally flawed

Lynda Carey

Employers need to get their facts right on night shifts

Little chance of 40 winks or even a break when you work the night shift

Heather Tritton

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

The Newly Qualified Nurse’s Handbook – A Survival Guide

Louise Nadal

Study Skills for Nurses – Second edition

Elizabeth Clifton

Non-Medical Prescribing – Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Barbara Stuttle

Starting out - The rewards of caring for the patient, not just the condition

Sophie Little

Do not be afraid to specialise early as there are rich rewards

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Cutting violence

Paul Jebb, Bríd Hehir, Sarah Esegbona, Kate Tantam

It’s not fair

Jane Bates

Could black gold have untapped healing properties?

David Newnham

Make the link

Lynne Jump

Policy makers must realise that post-transplant care involves lifelong treatment

Linda Thomas

Heart of the matter

Gill Stokes

Putting pain in perspective

Carol Davis

Think the unthinkable

Britten David

Pigs raised outdoors may pose greater risk of food poisoning

Milk intake important predictor of vitamin D levels in toddlers

Increase in sexual infections among middle-aged people

Centenarians say they are in good or excellent health

First black woman trade union leader promises to stay active in health care

News in brief

Number of drug users needing care doubles

Discrimination case may have wider effects

‘Fun way to convey serious message’

Ruling on life and death decisions is the ‘antithesis of nursing values’

Sophie Blakemore

Older people’s depression routinely ignored

GP surgeries face major losses if dispensing regulations change

Tamsin Snow

Guidance on administering cancer drug

Community nurses plugging gap in death verification service

Pupils road-test healthcare careers

Chemotherapy research funded

NMC training review will take until 2012

Today’s nurses in favour of retaining branches

Call for consolation diploma for students who miss out on a degree

RCN wants mandatory preceptorship year

Future of nursing education and funding still hang in the balance

Petra Kendall-Raynor

UK nurse ready to support aid effort

Unions prepare to fight over pay as inflation continues to climb

Laura Doherty

Gradual change will be costly

Jean Gray