Better care tops the agenda

Nurses join the campaign trail

Richard Staines

Notice board

Off to a flying start

Maggie Bayley, Lisa Bayliss-Pratt

Recognising depression

Lorraine Drinan

Managing diabetic ketoacidosis

Lynne Jerreat

Value to patients of a breast cancer clinical nurse specialist

Harriet Hardie, Alison Leary

Preparing to take objective structured clinical examinations

Paul Street, Libby Hamilton

Learning the lessons from systemic medication errors

Andrew Makin

I have first-hand experience of the value of teamwork

Emma Moody

Rough end of stick for male patients and male nurses

Improving my phone skills is a priority for me too

Kara Gerrie

Giving patients a timescale for death is a great service

Amelia Ashford

Why can’t discharge prescriptions be picked up on the way home?

Jackie Franks

The time to recruit staff is before the person has left

Malcolm Harrison

High Dependency Nursing Care: Observation, Intervention and Support for Level 2 Patients – Second edition

Emma Bowles

Public Health Nursing – A Textbook for Health Visitors, School Nurses and Occupational Health Nurses

Bashyr Aziz

Perspectives on Death and Dying

Greta McGough

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

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

Margaret Paul

Society should bolster children’s sense of worth

Anne Diamond

Starting out - I was scared about saying the wrong thing to a suicidal man

Mary Kingsley

Time for the beckhams to take a lead on leg ulcers

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Driving smokers to distraction

Linda Drake, Sue Szcepanska, Alison Crumbie, Jane Scullion

Sick attitude

Jane Bates

Voices-Linda Thomas fails to see the joke in crude jibes about Down’s syndrome

Linda Thomas

Lukewarm words

Stephen Wright

Twinning arrangements for hospital nurses in Malawi

Elizabeth Ann Ottaway

Outside in

David Newnham

Performing a pivotal role

Pat Ashworth

Attention to detail

Charlie Callanan

‘Nathan should be empowered so he can influence outcomes for patients’

He was surprised at the pressure we are under

‘Never underestimate the influence you have’

Politicians spend a day with a nurse

Norman Lamb, Anne Milton, Ann Keen

More young people in UK than US exposed to smoking in films

Cognitive function is better in people with a purpose in life

Drug used to treat osteoporosis reduces breast cancer risk

Integrated approach benefits people with back pain

Standing up for a nursing icon

Jenny Knight

Campaign for Mary Seacole memorial is stepped up in the face of opposition

Erin Dean

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Safeguarding rule could mean automatic bar for staff suspected of posing risk

Study links patient fatalities to low nurse ratios

Parties pledge post-election job security for front line nurse roles

Tamsin Snow, Erin Dean

Nurse directors are well placed to guide quality care, says report

Strikes possible if pay review process is hindered

Standards indicators extended

Nurses spend one month per year trying to locate essential items

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Stranded RCN president’s epic journey back to UK

Uniforms programme continues despite skin irritation concerns

News in brief

Award for infection control specialist

Nurse specialists save £1m by improving efficiency

Your pensions would be secure with labour, pm tells congress

Erin Dean

Cross-party call for foundation trusts to end culture of secrecy

Lack of staff the norm, say ward leaders

Cutbacks will lead to the NHS going back in time, says Carter

Tamsin Snow

Staff development benefits from KSF overhaul

Transparency is essential

Graham Scott