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Delivering for midwives

Christian Duffin

Fair chance of success

Frances Pickersgill

Home sweet home

Stuart Keeling

Travel immunisation

Sharon Kempson

Importance of nutrition in palliative care of patients with chronic disease

Susan Holmes

Supporting and mentoring nursing students in practice

Valerie Ness, Kathleen Duffy, Jacqueline McCallum, Lesley Price

Basic principles of pain management: assessment and intervention

Felicia Cox

Introduction to the pain series

Felicia Cox

Clarification

Dysphagia management study seeks research site

Elizabeth Roberts

Services ill equipped for mental health act

Mike Lehane

Nurses may verify death at home in most cases

Rosemary Young

Sharing information can raise standards and morale

Anne Taylor

I was discouraged from choosing non acute role

Rose-Marie Gilbert

Placement sparked interest in community nursing

Lisa Freeman

Preparation can avoid costly committee hearings

Gay Lee

Legal dimension needs airing in any discussion about teenagers and sex

JA Love

Medicines Compendium 2010

Sue Jordan

The Ophthalmic Study Guide for Nurses and Health Professionals

Karen McColgan

Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Nursing

Elspeth Raisbeck

Advice on eating for two should go beyond pregnancy

Anne Diamond

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out Patient care comes before any discomfort at speaking out

What to do about the under-performance of the few

Zeba Arif

Readers panel

Jane Scullion, Scott Justice, Kate Tantam, Jane Brown

The first to feel it

Rosemary Cook

Voices Prevention and treatment needed to halt spread of STIs, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

‘Staff are getting back a feel for nursing’

The human touch

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

Margaret Paul

OAP wars

Jane Bates

Outside In

David Newnham

Death certificates underplay alcohol’s contribution to harm

Long exposure to paint increases risk of bladder cancer

Fish, fatty acids and vitamin D could protect mental health

Mother’s affection for infant predictive of offspring’s mental health 30 years later

A louder voice for patients?

Regulator presses for change to EU rules on language testing

Webwise

Chris Challoner

Forgotten generation

Mary-Claire Mason

A year to remember

Lynne Pearce

‘Machines can create distance – this is about building therapeutic relationships’

Religious beliefs ‘could affect nurses’ decision making’

Nursing schools ask students to defer take-up of limited places

Jennifer Sprinks

Experts to give evidence on assisted suicide bill

Badges clue to owner of jewellery

Nurses revel in 25 colourful years at Notting Hill carnival

New scheme gives on-the-spot checks

NHS Direct nurses assured jobs are safe after ‘111’ is rolled out

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Nurse awards open for entries

Students warned about what they post on internet

New RCN president identifies staffing levels as a priority

Call to cap senior pay while nurses face freeze

Hip care is ‘uneven’, says report

Hospital trust runs workshops to improve morale of senior nurses

Tamsin Snow

Milton hears concerns for future of health care

Nurses fly diversity banner

Patient safety drive aims to save lives through better observations

Adele Waters

Deserved recognition

Graham Scott