Health on the box

Pauline Byers

Complementary care in check

Lucy Gooding

Notice board

The signs are all there

Rosalind Brown

Death and dying

Lesley Anne Beales

Spinal injuries

Tanya Fernandes

Spinal cord injuries: acute care management and rehabilitation

Jennie Walker

Registered nurses’ attitudes towards the role of the healthcare assistant

Jason Alcorn, Anne Elizabeth Topping

Obtaining corporate information from NHS foundation trusts

Valerie Woodward, Ruth Endacott, Rod Sheaff, Ray Jones

Obituary Mona Grey OBE FRCN SRN SCM Former chief nursing officer for Northern Ireland, 1910-2009

Laurence Dopson

Too many nurses have to work without breaks

MRSA and C. difficile are just the tip of the iceberg

Dinah Gould

Anything highlighting plight of homeless is welcomed

Bridget Ryan

Legislation delay hinders progress in prescribing

Matt Griffiths

No one is born a nurse, they are made through education

Michael Fowell

Degree-level entry will be essential to meet ever increasing challenges

Elizabeth Haidar

Care Quality Commission

Write Effectively – A Quick Course for Busy Health Workers

Hazel Courtney

Pharmacology – A Nursing Process Approach: Sixth edition

William Scott

Easeful Death – Is There A Case For Assisted Dying?

Greta McGough

Webwise

Irene Mabbott

Communicationskillsneedto betailoredtothepatient

Katie Beck

‘I married my patient’

Readers panel - Just the job for young carers

Janet Smith, Moyra Baldwin, Mandy Dervis, Alison Crumbie

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Sinking feeling

James Buchan

Voices

Linda Thomas

The one-stop shop

Carol Davis

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

Margaret Paul

Game plan

Jane Bates

Strict vegetarians at lower risk of developing diabetes

‘How was your care?’

Alison Handley

Walk on the wild side

Mary-Claire Mason

Individuals rather than systems blamed for adverse events

Treating UTIs in older women without culture might be appropriate

Continuing to go to work when unwell could result in later long-term sickness

Who are the busiest nurses?

Keith Hurst

What will all-graduate entry to nursing mean for the profession?

Study skills boost for students who have dyslexia

Regulator seeks to dispel ‘all-graduate’ confusion

Sporting event boosts confidence

Apprentice-style leadership pays off

Use of automated training aids is producing de-skilled registrants

Tamsin Snow

Simple changes promote nutrition

College supports MPs’call for staff appraisals deadline

Tamsin Snow, Bill Doult

New inspector aims to reduce infection rates

Former nurse MP barred after expenses probe

News in brief

Light boxes bought for NHS staff

Indicators introduced in all sectors

Editor-in-chief role at nursing standard

Midwives Deny immigrants are a burden

Nurses invent storage solution

University of Manchester first to announce end of diploma course

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Mary Seacole memorial design chosen

NHS leaders keen to open talks early on 2011/12 pay award

Tamsin Snow

Unite against xenophobia

Jean Gray