Infectious enthusiasm

Carol Davis

Tipped for the top

Lisa Rodrigues

Notice board

Changing motivation

Katrina McLaughlin

Total hip replacement

Amy Causey

Learning how to undertake a systematic review: part 2

Josette Bettany-Saltikov

Implementation of the Mental Health Act 2007

Ian Harvey

Role of the ward sister: tensions, pressures and opportunities

Carole Doherty, Mark Gatenby, Colin Hales

PGDs have their place, but individual care is preferred

Paul Warburton

Public health standards of proficiency remain the same

Roger Thompson

Patients are right to worry over reorganisation

Joyce Robins

Treatment at home is a boon to women with breast cancer

Deborah Fenlon

All nurses need to have their finger on the pulse

Jan Nicholson

Furore over school milk is far from evidence-based

Jenny Janes

Ideology is more of a threat to the NHS than budget cuts

Robert Galloway

High impact actions are the same nursing skills under another name

Linda Drake

Safer Surgery – Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Judy Mewburn

Sleep Problems in Children and Adolescents

Amanda Norman

Nurse: Past, Present and Future – The Making of Modern Nursing

Christine Hancock

NMC regulation would aid healthcare assistants

Sarah Jane Edwards

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

Rebooking

Jane Bates

The bitterest of pills to swallow

Jan Halstead

Every little helps

Mark Jennings

Starting out easier to understand patients after watching surgery journey

Joanna Good

Private sector nurses can play a vital part in delivery

Sally Taber

Readers panel

Steve Flatt, Carol Singleton, Julie Clarke, Linda Drake

Voices - Public conveniences need to be accessible to all, says Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Leadership challenge

Adele Waters

Beware of the dog

Alison Whyte

Building a case with hard facts

Jennifer Hunt

Buying legal highs over the internet may lead to toxicity

Fish oil could be useful in preventing breast cancer

Most people who died with swine flu were previously healthy

Wrist fractures bring clinical decline in older women

Nurses can adapt to new models of care

Competency record procedure is ‘too daunting’

High court to hear RCN challenge to vetting and barring scheme

Unfairly barred nurses to be compensated

Cancer treatment video guides

New nurse references to include practice placement behaviour

Erin Dean

News in brief

Take part in our survey and win £100 prize

Proposals due for overhaul of NHS staff mileage rates

iNurse software available for Blackberry users

Competition between NHS trusts stops staff sharing best practice

Tamsin Snow

Students express their satisfaction

College urges regulator to probe deeper on nurse staffing levels

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Trusts say they have met recruitment standards

International community urged to provide aid as floods endanger thousands of pregnancies

Age profiles can help to retain skills

South African nurses’ pay battle

Agency calls for incident reviews after unexpected cardiac arrests

Adele Waters

Competition is no cure

Graham Scott