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Learning from the team

Melanie Gough

Letter from america

The metrics of care

Peter Griffiths, Jill Maben

Learning from the team

Melanie Gough

Write a practice profile

Alcohol-related presentations

Joe Keating

Domiciliary oxygen therapy: assessment and management

Dave Lynes, Carol Kelly

Domiciliary oxygen therapy:assessment and management

Dave Lynes, Carol Kelly

Providing specialist care for pregnant women with asthma

Siobhan Kennedy

The characteristics and experiences of mature nursing students

Laura EA Montgomery, Etain A Tansey, Sean M Roe

Hospital end of life care is inappropriate and unwanted

Mary Daly

Every dying patient deserves the best specialist care

Eva Garland

Senseless suffering of children in the middle east

Joni Brown

Nmc’s registration rules are gobbledegook to me

Janet Goodere

Strategies to promote bme staff are not being enforced

Elizabeth Anionwu

There is a time and a place for words of endearment

Zeba Arif

RCN’s dignity campaign is relevant to outpatients

Pauline Ford

Steps to promote dignity are undermined by target culture

Sue Barnden

Small changes can bring big improvements for patients

Rachel Talmadge

Overcrowding must lead to compromised patient dignity

Regina Sousa Barbosa

Patient bottlenecks lead to conveyor belt care in outpatient departments

Neonatal Care – A Textbook for Student Midwives and Nurses

Valerie McGurk

Defeating autism-a damaging delusion

Bríd Hehir

Defeating Autism – A Damaging Delusion

Bríd Hehir

Trust Me, I’m a Health Manager

Gerry O’Dwyer

Neonatal care – a textbook for student midwives and nurses

Valerie McGurk

Trust me, i’m a health manager

Gerry O’Dwyer

Webwise

Kathy Abernethy

A race for women to support women – and men

Louise Holland

Rights of the child

Marc Cornock

I learned how body image can affectapatient’smentalstate- Starting out

Beth Heppleston

Hold the trade gobbledegook and say it like it is, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Lining private sector pockets

Linda Drake, Paul Jebb, Moyra Baldwin, Scott Justice

Mobile phone pests should not be let loose on hospital wards

David Newnham

Squeezed by degrees

Euan Sutherland

Voices-Dame Chris Beasley outlines a government push to enhance community services

Dame Chris Beasley

Adverse reaction

Lynne Wallis

Beta blockers do not improve surgical clinical outcomes

Good management protects employees from heart disease

High levels of resistance in E. coli urinary infection

Alcohol and drug use leads to violence among young tourists

Respecting the rights of atheist or agnostic patients

The modest hospital gown

Guide to spiritual needs of staff and patients aims to clear up confusion

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Stress point

Jane Bates

Rebuilding confidence

Alison Moore

Occupational hazard

Christopher Humm

First meeting of new regulatory ‘board’ proves short and sweet

New constitution to promote needs and rights of NHS nurses

Rise in mental health problems predicted as job losses increase

RCN members to gain more voting power

Climate is growing health threat

Graduates turn to public sector careers amid financial uncertainty

Tamsin Snow

Pre-surgery checklist aims to promote safety

News in brief

Anti-smoking policy puts staff at risk

Staff on gaza conflict front line commended

Survey reveals vast differences in practice nurse remuneration

Tamsin Snow

Emergency patients say care is improving

Legal blame for fatal infection outbreaks could fall on nurses

Jennifer Trueland

Nurses shape up on reality show

Health unions unite in call for a 2.5-hour cut in the working week

Tamsin Snow

Dole queue health danger

Jean Gray