International learning

Nurses anticipate shake-up

Craig Howie, Emma Jackson

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Student life - opportunity knocks

Seana O’Malley

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Sepsis management

Total hip replacement: improving patients’ quality of life

Jennie A Walker

Care of older people with dementia in an acute hospital setting

Fiona Cowdell

Cyclical vomiting syndrome: diagnosis, causes and treatment

Michael John Pritchard, Sheila O’Neill

Difficulties of applying to work in the united states

Jean Baker

Congress stalwart will be missed by many in nursing

John Kelly

How does older patients’ behaviour affect your work?

Gediminas Grinevicius

My son died only ten weeks after hepatitis vaccination

Jane Abnett

24-hour emergency access debate goes round in circles

Nick Castle

Is there a sound solution to the problem of noisy wards?

Hazel Potts

United we stand in battle for recognition and reward

Alison Leary Macmillan

Declining to comment will undermine informed opinion

Carol Haigh, Gayatri Nambiar-Greenwood

Entertainers’music and singing hit the right note with older patients

Barbara George

Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy! – First UK Edition

Jacqueline Padmore

Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing

Simon Jones

Physiology and Anatomy for Nurses and Healthcare Practitioners: A Homeostatic Approach – Third edition

Valerie McGurk

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

Starting out-Patient’s one dying wish should have been taken more seriously

Chantelle Cox

Textbook blood pressure readings so seldom happen

Jan Halstead

Readers panel-health risk hard to digest

Bríd Hehir, Alison Crumbie, Lorraine Jeffs, Paul Jebb

Not guilty

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Mark of prejudice

Sles Scovell

Voices An example of strong leadership impressed me, says Chris Beasley

Dame Chris Beasley

Area of high pressure

Robert Munro

Mothering the mother

Elizabeth Lynch

Dealing with resistance

Stephen Wright

Text messages help remind people to use sunscreen regularly

Injuries to cyclists in accidents more severe in winter

Laser therapy gives marked relief for chronic neck pain

Why is it taking so long to eradicate mixed-sex wards from hospitals?

Stroke care in hospitals improves but community teams lag behind

Erin Dean

Trauma patients should be treated in specialist centres

Assistant practitioners are filling band 5 and 6 nursing posts

HCA training in basic tasks inadequate

Voyage of discovery for intrepid nurse

News in brief

NMC cautions over midwife numbers

Ward sisters to be given guide on setting the ideal skill mix

Nurses hit the campaign trail as general election approaches

Petra Kendall-Raynor

PM pledges 'first class care' for cancer patients

Commissioners put final touches to ‘radical’report on future nursing

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Protest over trust inquiry

Psychometric tests to find ‘softer side’ of candidates

Risk factors may be reduced by streamlined bedside handovers

Guidance to bereaved is challenged

Trust urged to review wage cap

Karen Webb

Threat to pay, hours and staffing as NHS budget reduction looms

Tamsin Snow

Proper funding is essential

Graham Scott