Notice board

Fair play in practice

Frances Pickersgill

A confident future

Paula Povey

Meningitis

Amie Nuttall

Developing patient group directions for medicines management

Gerri Kaufman

Inclusion of lay people in the pre-registration selection process

Paula Roberts, Karen Wild, Karen Washington, Carol Mountford, Jane Capewell, Carol Mountford, Helena Priest

A framework to support safe blood transfusion practice

Elizabeth Pirie, Jan Green

Home visits offer more than a face on a video monitor

Joanne Hawkins

Timely contribution to challenge of psychosis

Alister Campbell

It is managers who need to take action against bullying

I hope to prove age is no barrier to becoming a nurse

Susan Watkins

Symbols could help people identify Christian staff

Alison Robinson

House of lords offers chance to flag up healthcare issues

Celia Manson

Guidance on anaphylaxis is timely and pertinent

Sarah Holling

Health visitors should offer family care based on trust

Fiona Hemmings-Faye

Paperwork and data collection can lead to frustration and low morale

Gordon Lees

Nurses and their Patients – Informing Practice through Psychodynamic Insights

Peter Hadwin

Doing Qualitative Research – Third edition

Jacqueline Padmore

Mosby’s 2010 Nursing Drug Reference – 23rd edition

Sue Jordan

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

Margaret Paul

Bad food, not a lack of exercise, is making children fat

Anne Diamond

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Alarm turned to admirationas I saw my colleagues in action

Rachael Ashton

Food for thought

Jessica Streeting, Janet Smith, Mandy Allison, Julie Clarke

Teach practical skills before nursing courses start

Juliet Ashford-Lawrence

Days of yore

Jane Bates

David Newnham a plastic tube is more fearful of than death itself

David Newnham

Back to where we started

Irene Heywood Jones

Voices-Elizabeth Anionwu loses a family member to sickle cell anaemia

Elizabeth Anionwu

Spiritual gaze

Linda Ross, Wilf McSherry

Innovation in oncology

Alison Handley

Scarce support changes lives

Anita Pati

Readmissions rate not reduced by follow-up appointments

Work-life in the balance

Ruth Harris, Janette Bennett

People confused about sun protection and vitamin D absorption

New risk group for sexually transmitted infections identified

Fruit and vegetable uptake influenced by infant diet

Patient safety agency among the NHS organisations dismantled by Whitehall

Education review to ensure all nurses can care for all patients

Wellbeing initiatives key to reducing absenteeism

Independent universities make plans to offer nursing courses

Tamsin Snow

Assessment needed for self-harm

Staff suspended at mid staffs in drive to improve standards

Nurse calls it a day at the age of 77

News in brief

Nurse of the year joins influential parliamentary group

RCN subscription increases by 1%

Survey shows nurses fail to check patient records before treatment

Jennifer Sprinks

More homework for NHS direct staff

Mixed response to ministers’ cancer drugs pledge

Health visitor employers to be determined locally

Milton sure of nurse role in commissioning

Mexican nurses take to streets

More staff turning to charities for help with household bills

Erin Dean, Jennifer Trueland

Bandages on the beach

Report tells NMC that regulation of assistant practitioners is urgent

Tamsin Snow, Erin Dean

Acute need for regulation

Elaine Cole