Moving in the right direction

Frances Pickersgill

Notice board

Value for money

Jacqui Furneaux

Poland’s nurses seek recognition

Lynne Pearce

Understanding ourselves

Helen Olt, Eileen Richardson

Adult eczema

Amy Bartlett

Diuretic therapy: implications for nursing practice

Sharon Harvey, Sue Jordan

Toolkit for neonatal care

Doreen Crawford, Barbara Howard

Evidence base for effective medicines management

Sue Latter

Professional considerations for nurse prescribers

Fiona Culley

Education and career opportunities for nurses in offender health care

Jane Perry, Clare Bennett, Tracy Lapworth

Paul Wainwright Professor of nursing, Kingston University and St George’s 1948– 2010

Ann Gallagher

I will wear my prize florence nightingale watch with pride

Moira Bell

Nurse’s interventions offer excellence in dementia care

Colm Cunningham

Ringfenced funding ‘throws money down the drain’

JO Sims

Essential care skills should be taught in the classroom

Kathryn Potter

Politicians risk an exodus of nurses seeking better pay and respect

Paul Kirby

Caseload midwifery often results in stressed midwives

Sam Chenery-Morris

Collective working model may have meaningful effects

Lynda Carey

A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice

Mark Pittman

The Young Mind – An Essential Guide to Mental Health for Young Adults, Parents and Teachers

Sam Gournay

Pioneering Theories in Nursing

Ian Peate

Map of Medicine

Readers panel - Alone in a crowd

Alison Crumbie, Janet Smith, Jane Brown, Mandy Allison

An alternative approach

Stephen Wright

Extraordinary people – the girls who share a head

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bev Al-Azzawi

Resuscitation training helped me save my grandson’s life

Sandra Robinson

Focus on diagnosis was at the expense of holistic care

Starting out-focus on diagnosis was at the expense of holistic care

Stress at work

Jane Bates

Outsidein

David Newnham

Voices-Interacting with the nurse regulator is easier than ever, promises tony hazell

Tony Hazell

Reluctant role reversal

Jenny Knight

Nurseries under threat

Alison Moore

Renal revolution

Oona Mashta

Building for change

Oona Mashta

Bladder cancer risk higher in long-serving hairdressers

Heart valve disease does not restrict activities in old people

Eating nuts improves lipid profiles in people with low BMI

Sweetened solutions have calming effect for infants

‘perhaps the cut-off should have been at a higher level’

Pay packets set to feel the pinch

Health advice on the high street

Patients with learning disabilities at risk from ‘apathy’

Artificial nutrition safety fear

Students reunited after half a century

Hospital staff urged to arrange rapid discharge for dying patients

Erin Dean

Infection control drive

Focus switches to outcomes as four-hour target is scrapped

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Care of older people is patients’ top concern

Front line staff contribute to fall in hospital mortality

Report backs register of prescribers

Guidance aims to give staff confidence to speak out

Linda’s legacy of better nursing care

Administrative help for sisters

Mandatory indemnity cover could give control of nursing to industry

Jennifer Sprinks

Power to Care Campaign News 2010

Rcn rejects imposition of pay ceiling

Nurses are asked for their ideas on how to save the NHS £20bn

Differentials in disarray

Graham Scott