High-flying support

MSc in disaster health care

On hand to help at home

Cheryl Tyler

Let’s have a dummy run

Ronnie Meechan

Cultural diversity

Elizabeth Sango Piki

Central venous pressure monitoring in clinical practice

Katie Scales

Using an intravenous catheter system to prevent needlestick injury

Dimitri Sossai, Vincenzo Puro, Luca Chiappatoli, Giulio Dagnino, Bernardo Odone, Annamaria Polimeri, Laila Ruzza, Paola Palombo, Marian Stella Fuscoe, Paola Scognamiglio

Disseminating best practice through a web log

Bob Price

Valerie Cowie Former RCN head of labour relations 1933–2010

Catherine Gamble

Sharing information ‘in good faith’may lead to injustice

Katherine Guellard

Make night shifts fair for permanent nursing staff

Mandie Gwyther

Nurses could benefit from delving further into autism

Janet Martin

Emphasis is on Euthanasia, not suicide, in Dutch debate

Antoinette de Kleijn

Treat all patients as though they can communicate

Simon Fletcher

Let high quality care take precedence over budgets

Cutting NHS budgets will make a repeat of mid staffs inevitable

Simon Harris-Dack

Black’s Medical Dictionary – 42nd edition

Simon McGurk

Dying For A Cure – A Woman’s Battle with Antidepressants, Misdiagnosis and Madness

Paul Sayer

Health, Emotion and the Body

Liz Cort

Webwise

Laurence Dopson

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Learning that patients hang on my every word was invaluable

Sara Yates

How nurses have to deal with the perils of modern living

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Roles can expand in practice

Linda Drake, Alison Crumbie, Brìd Hehir, Carol Singleton

Just do it

Jane Bates

Outside In

David Newnham

Support network

Gail Thomas, Catherine Deakin

Voices - Chris Beasley encourages nurses to make listening an integral part of their work

Dame Christine Beasley

A question of quality

Susan Read

Notice board

From theory to practice

Dame Betty Kershaw

On the path to power

Design for life

Anita Pati

Informal childcare settings associated with extra weight gain

Most cocaine-related sudden deaths due to cardiovascular disease

Glioma rates lower among people who drink caffeine

Vital differences in chronic and episodic migraine

Bold steps towards realising the dream of patient-centred service

Investment needed for home births

Investment needed for home births

Patient safety is vital but cuts can be made, says health minister

Tamsin Snow

Revalidation will replace prep in 2013

Placements can continue at trust criticised for delivering poor care

Regulators pool resources to identify failings

News in brief

‘Leave regulation of HCAs to employers’

Funding change may put stroke services at risk

National dementia strategy failing to deliver due to lack of leadership

Bill Doult, Sarah Harrison

Bus advert ‘demeans’ nurses

Design innovations for dignified care

Staff lose out in flat-rate local pay deal

Vetting and barring scheme is fair, says DH adviser

RCN charters spell out the rights and responsibilities of members and activists

Fears for profession’s influence at westminster as nurse MP quits

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Bill Doult

Trusts’ licences hinge on improved staffing

Survey exposes divide between nurses and senior management

Erin Dean

House call for nurses

Graham Scott