Assessing success

Jane Roberts, Gaynor Fenton

Opportunity knocks

Clare Jacobs

Who should manage nurses?

Jenny Leggott

Student life-Telling a digital story

Jane Leng

Haemorrhoids

Tracy Kitchener

Coeliac disease: symptoms, complications and patient support

Susan Holmes

Investigating the use of simulation as a teaching strategy

Chew Kim Shepherd, Margaret McCunnis, Lynn Brown, Mario Hair

A Hong Kong perspective on ways to improve nurse retention

Zenobia CY Chan, Wing-Fu Lai

David Clark Medical superintendent and psychiatrist 1920– 2010

Laurence Dopson

Changing the arrangements for discharge prescriptions

Sarah Whiteley

Discrimination against men is not confined to patients

Richard Owen

I fear health will be market driven after the election

Jamie Henson

Image of angels in uniforms is a case of mistaken identity

Helen Cole

Politicians’ presence added to atmosphere at congress

Irene Heywood Jones

Alcohol misuse in older adults is a silent epidemic we ignore at our peril

Linda Short

Webwise

Roger Evans

Community Palliative Care – The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist

Ros Morley

Anthony’s Textbook of Anatomy and Physiology – Nineteenth edition

Simon McGurk

Fighting Cancer with More than Medicine – A History of Macmillan Cancer Support

Catherine Oakley

Starting out - staying calm helps to diffuse the fear in aggressive patients

Emma Banyard

Readers panel: Improving workplace efficiency

Scott Justice, Jane Brown, Sue Szczepanska, Kate Tantam

Voices - The election has been an emotional roller coaster for Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

OutsideIn

David Newnham

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

Margaret Paul

Withholding the gory details can be for the best

Jan Halstead

Get with it!

Jane Bates

Fit for purpose?

Joy Milligan

Notice board

Many patients ask about the religious medals i wear

Wendy Larsen

Just a tick

Mary-Claire Mason

‘The challenge is like A&E’

A change of direction

Alison Whyte

Shared learning soothes burns

Alison Handley

Drug-resistant TB poses a higher risk to people in prison

Adults who believe in CAM likely to hold paranormal beliefs

Rib fractures in older men likely to be from osteoporosis

Environmental and genetic links to biliary cirrhosis

It’s time to boost the key roles of ward sisters

‘Gold-plated pension’propagand must be challenged, college says

Tamsin Snow

Heroin on the NHS ‘would reduce need to steal’

Tributes to RCN activist

Nurses gather in US capital to mark Florence Nightingale centenary

Docking sick pay is no way to manage high absenteeism

Pupils learn essential skills

Survey reveals spirituality to be a ‘forgotten dimension of care’

Erin Dean

Line managers should empathise with staff

Learning disability patients in need of specialist support

News in brief

Advanced practice legislation poses a dilemma to NMC

RCN asked to adopt hardline stance on drinking and driving

‘Dementia education needed’

Nurses give their verdict on politicians’ campaign speeches

Politicians bid to woo congress with plans for pay and incentives

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Erin Dean

Record check proves costly

Hotline callers voice fears about patient safety and staffing levels

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Standing up for quality

Graham Scott