Lessons to be learned

Jenny Knight

Sharing valuable skills

Debbie Lee

Notice board

‘I found my ideal role’

Staying the course

Vic Boyd, Stephanie McHendry

Wound-related pain management

Rachel Goodwin

Prevention of deterioration in acutely ill patients in hospital

Colin Steen

The role of the nurse specialist in placement education

Susie Pease, Sheila Kane

Venous thromboprophylaxis: reducing needlestick injury

Jean Rogers

Correction

Obituaries give fascinating insight into nursing history

Linda Short

Psychiatric service support in emergency departments

Mike Lehane

With this upheaval, I am glad I no longer live in England

Henry McGrath

Broadening the use of patient group directions

Sue Jordan

NHS institute has helped the profession and improved care

Tony Butterworth

I wonder who is reading all the notes that we write

Stephen Weeks

Why demonise people who are overweight or obese?

Bridget Ryan

A ban on euphemisms would lead to a less compassionate approach

Joe Power

Nursing the Neonate – Second edition

Valerie McGurk

Living Confidently With HIV – A Self-Help Book for People Living With HIV

Drew Payne

Mental Health Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Charlie Sloan

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Sam Chenery-Morris

Starting out - Offering emotional support to patients requires stamina

Catherine Murphy

Abolition of national safety agency could prove costly

Matt Griffiths

Readers panel - System revamp

Alison Crumbie, Linda Drake, Jane Brown, Paul Jebb

Open wide

Jane Bates

Outside in - David Newnham fears life behind the wheel is fraught with hazard

David Newnham

Any NHS overhaul needs to be tested

Linda Bailey

Voices

Tony Hazell

A local crisis

Christian Duffin

The power of words

Tina Walsh

Champions of dementia care

Jenny Knight

Canteen users likely to choose unhealthy foods and be obese

Loss of consciousness less probable in older patients with syncope

Skin cancer increases risk of second primary tumour

Caffeinated coffee drinkers may decrease their cancer risk

Drive to abolish ‘politically motivated’ NHS targets raises serious clinical issues

Jennifer Sprinks

Mrsa reductions are a tribute to nurses

Chief nurse to push for profession’s place on key NHS board

Clinicians prepare to travel and help in Pakistan relief efforts

‘High priority’ report challenges end of life thinking

LGBT project to tackle self-harm

Ramadan launch for care campaign

Psychometric quiz pilot will test suitability of aspiring nurses

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurses help design cancer unit

Assistant practitioner regulation could bring back two-tier system

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

NMC set to publish in Welsh language

Culture of quality is needed to retain the best, says milton

Nurses launch swab screening for MSSA

Trusts to pilot rapid roll-out of chief nurse’s high impact actions

Bids to be non-profit providers

Unions warn that wards, services and jobs are already under threat

Erin Dean

Privatisation of NHS staff agency ‘makes no sense’

Nightingale tribute in song

Staff pensions provide Treasury with £2 billion surplus, says RCN

Petra Kendall-Raynor

‘Ideal’ nurses need support

Elaine Cole