Careers & jobs

The feelgood factor

Jill Maben

Challenging environment

Mike Jackson

Student life - Calculated to succeed

Carol Hall

An evaluation of an online numeracy assessment tool

Paul Warburton, Sam Sherrington, Jennifer Kirton, Ida Ryland, Annette Jinks

Meningitis

Deborah Iyer

Understanding blood groups and transfusion in nursing practice

Denise Watson, Kathleen Hearnshaw

Basic pharmacology of non-opioid analgesics

Gerri Kaufman

Developing the role of advanced nurse practitioners in mental health

Maria Gilfedder, Derek Barron, Eddie Docherty

Win a spa break for two by telling us what you think

Alice Lam

Pointing out best practice in taking fingerprick samples

Celine Tracey

Shared commitment should extend beyond the RCN

Anne Miller

Val cowie – an indomitable figure who fought for us

Betty Jones

NMC is best placed to regulate support workers

Adrian Reyes-Hughes

Network launched to assist access to health care

Susan Wright

Information centre’s average pay figures are news to me

Lorraine Scaife

If degrees are essential, why is our role being undermined?

Compassion and dedication remain the most important qualifications

Mark Dorado

Beating Bowel Cancer

Diabetes – The Biography

Laurence Dopson

Wrong Place, Wrong Time – Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men

Zulfkar Hussain

Confuse and Conceal – The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres

Anne Mottram

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Brush with aggressive patient highlighted my lack of training

Matthew Parkin

Hearing loops work best if you turn off the music

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Curb the size zero

Jessica Streeting, Mike Lehane, Mandy Allison, Linda Drake

Fools rush in

Jane Bates

David Newnham discovers why labels on ingredients appear coy about vitamin C

Janet Davies

Green credentials

Stuart Jeffery

Voices - Every nurse’s vote will count in the forthcoming election, says Janet Davies

Janet Davies

‘Daddy is going to be sick’

Catherine Quinn

Working to bring up baby

Marc Cornock

A lucky break

Alison Moore

Testing target

Catharine Sadler

Earmarked for success

Alison Handley

Cigar and pipe smokers at risk of airflow obstruction

Drug errors more common when parents use measuring cups

Ill-fitting condoms result in breakages and early removal

More young women killed in alcohol-related car accidents

We answer 1,600 calls a day

Revalidation – how the NMC will tackle its ‘biggest challenge yet’

Patients suffer as sisters lose control of ward budgets

‘I am happy to move on after ordeal’

Unions applaud us health vote

SHAs’cuts to number of students prompt job loss fears for lecturers

Petra Kendall-Raynor

RCN campaign bus picks up party leaders

News in brief

Smoking ban expected for mental health units

Heart attack patients benefit from guidelines

Trust brings back manual checks of vital signs to enhance safety

Petra Kendall-Raynor

No immediate dh action on report

Unions collaborate to put the case for salary rises next year

Downing street reception for cancer specialists

Practice staff stuck on old pay system

NHS Direct will shed 200 posts in £20 million efficiency drive

Lack of support from employers means nurses miss out on CPD

Laura Doherty

Retired midwives invited back

Series of ‘triggers’could enable NMC to pre-empt lapses in care

Erin Dean

Feeling the squeeze

Graham Scott