Casting votes

Vital service to older people

A national resource

An inspirational leader

Harmonising teaching across the continent

Paula Hancock

Practice makes perfect

Care for the whole person

An enterprising approach

Treating the mind as well as the body

Crisis care that is open all hours

Appetite for change

Assessments by nurses help children to trust

Starting from scratch

Joy Jones

Mesothelioma Care in Practice (online)

Supported nurses give better care

Annette Van-Hein Wallace

Notice board

Getting back on course

Keith Bradley-Adams

Urinary catheters

Caroline Mitford

Caffeine

Tanya Fernandes

Health aspects of caffeine: benefits and risks

Carrie Ruxton

First aid provision in nightclubs and other entertainment venues

Rick Dean, Joe Mulligan

Older people’s home care is best led by district nurses

Bennett Mott

We need a holistic approach to coronary heart disease

Keith Littlewood

Chief nurse should lead by example with swine flu jab

Wendy Harrison

As a christian, i will always speak out against abuse

Patricia Beeden

The second-year student blues do exist – i have them

Is cruelty associated with secularisation of nursing?

Emily Wood

NMC code should give nurses confidence to offer first AID

Mike Jackson

I will look like a proper nurse in my new uniform

Doreen Robinson

Failure to develop BME staff adds to shortage of specialist nurses

Bethann Siviter

On the record

‘She expects 100% from staff – but gives 100% back’

Justice at the Old Bailey

Catching illness early

Information on the go

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Chris Chaloner

Problem-Based Psychiatry – Second edition

Peter Barraclough

Research Methods for Health Care Practice

Irene Mabbott

Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider – Third edition

Lydia Burke

A target in hard times

James Buchan

Nurses could learn from opportunistic salespeople

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Should practice nurses be allowed to run gp surgeries? we asked our readers panel

Alison Crumbie, Bríd Hehir, Linda Drake, Scott Justice

Starting out - performing cpr on a patient banishedsomemisconceptions

Leopoldina Tomas

Outside in-Swine flu figures are based on guesswork and assumption, says David Newnham

David Newnham

Voices - nursing is key to making the nhs improve the care it provides, says chris beasley

Dame Chris Beasley

Backing nurse ingenuity

Deb Marriage

Turn the volume down

Nicki Haskins, Kate Sanders

A more hands-on role

Sue Learner

On high alert

Alison Whyte

Facing fears

Jane Bates

Fast track to recovery

Alison Handley

Pistachios have beneficial effects on lipids and glucose

Inflammatory marker associated with coffee in obese older women

New pleural effusion test can identify mesothelioma

Early exposure to lead could affect learning and behaviour

The bedrock of children’s services, so why are there not enough of them?

Time management scheme lauded

Top NHS earners may have been manipulating their pay bands

Richard Staines

Unanimous support for 2.25% pay rise

‘Ward leaders should be empowered to improve standards’

Smoking ban blamed for alleged attack on mental health nurses

News in brief

Patient deaths prompt oxygen safety guidance

Sharing of data between gpsand hospitals is poor

New registrant’s pay hit by post strike

Loss of legal status has caused crisis in health visiting, says union

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Call for end to ban on gay men giving blood

Nurses face increasing pressure to manipulate data on clinical targets

Erin Dean

Details of ftp cases may be released

Members agree to separate RCN’s trade union and charity functions

College declines to take part in assisted suicide consultation

Scotland’s healthcare assistants will be subject to code of conduct

Nurses to earn ward control

Uncertain role for review body as NHS staff face enforced pay cap

Commitment at its best

Jean gray