A model career plan

Beverley Bustin

Step in the right direction

Stephanie Raley

Degrees of learning

Sidone Chilufya

A position of enablement

Sara Munro

Recognising the signs

Jeremy Finch

The mnemonic ‘brain attack’

Jillian Evans

Nursing care of patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Marvelle Brown

Measuring anxiety in surgical patients using a visual analogue scale

Michael Pritchard

Managing pain in the older person

Suzanne Chapman

Corrections

I want the RCN to be run by qualified, registered nurses

Dominic Holbourne

Communication is key to good care, irrespective of uniform

Louise Bell

I live with rosacea without feeling depressed about it

Louise Boole

Plan to bar students who are ‘damaged’ is shocking

John Williams

Patients should be accorded full access to their records

Joyce Robins

Front line staff are also responsible for failings

Mid staffs still struggles with basic quality standards

Helen Walker

To be truly green we must invest in buildings, not tinker with light bulbs

Susan Perry

Public Concern at Work

Practical Leadership and Management in Nursing

Cathe Gaskell

Nurses on the run – why they come, why they stay

Paula Hancock

Nursing and women’s labour in the nineteenth century – the quest for independence

Dinah Gould

Nurses on the Run – Why They Come, Why They Stay

Paula Hancock

Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century – The Quest for Independence

Dinah Gould

Experts spar on solutions to the UK’s weight problem

Anne Diamond

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

Margaret Paul

Practical leadership and management in nursing

Cathe Gaskell

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Sticking rigidly to the rules is not always best

ED Rowe

Readers panel - Should nurses fight to preserve the NHS pension scheme or accept that change is inevitable? We asked our readers panel

Paul Jebb, Kate Tantam, Julie Clarke, Scott Justice

Starting out-Apatient labelled ‘difficult’ was just lonely and vulnerable

Lynn Pantling

Joie de vivre

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

A crucial safeguard

Cristina Odone

Voices - Nurses need more time to assess and support abused women, says Jean Gray

Jean Gray

The mark of responsibility

Sue Learner

Notice board

Webwise

Joseph King

Choice agenda

Richard Shrub

Exciting the senses

Jackie Cosh

Increasing use of medical imaging for emergency injuries

More than two hours a day screen use could harm children

National guidelines on encephalitis management needed

Combined effort most effective in battling migraine

Board-level nurses have a tough challenge ahead

Spending cuts: the real cost to staff and care

Matrons only spend a third of time with patients

Trust plans to deploy full-time infection control nurse ward

Abuse in the nhs linked to work pressures

Memory book bonds staff and residents

Older people are suffering due to lack of investment in pain services

Jennifer Sprinks

Leaders’ morale vital in the move to GP consortia, says chief nurse

Jennifer Sprinks

Student join protest against fee increases

News in brief

Fears NHS reforms will jeopardise quality

Staff mix at new NHS helpline to be decided by doctors

Profession pays tribute to the bravery of wartime nurses

Zero salary increase for staff in Wales

NHS bossesmust not get hefty pay rises, Carter tells MPs

College predicts crisis as nurse numbers fall

Automatic barring denies civil rights, High Court judge rules

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Mid staffsinquiry to question RCN and regulator

Action to avert crisis needed as 27,000 posts earmarked for cuts

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Bill Doult

Older people deserve better

Scott Graham