Care in a cold climate

Emma Jackson

Outside tests

Alex McClimens

Degrees of success

Sarah Wray

Unintentional injury

Sheila Nelson

MRSA: implications for hospitals and nursing homes

Dinah Gould

Patient-reported outcome measures: implications for nursing

Leela Barham, Nancy Devlin

Acute pain management following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

Jasmina Banicek, Diana Butcher

Henry, Paddy

Laurence Dopson

Raising concerns about care is integral to nursing values

Mike Owen

Bed manager’s anger may well have been justified

Nicola Justice

Correction

Impromptu care by king’s army was commendable

Mark Kennett

We are asked to carry the burden – while bankers carry the bonuses

David Lozynskyj

Cutting out fat is not the whole story for obese people

Keith Littlewood

Lose the bureaucracy and let us get on with the job

Dominic Holbourne

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! First UK edition

Paul Tierney

White Ship, Red Crosses – A Nursing Memoir of the Falklands War

Laurence Dopson

Current Issues in Nursing – Eighth edition

Paula Hancock

Healthtalkonline

Mark Pittman

Readers panel

Steve Flatt, Alison Crumbie, Julie Clarke, Stephen Weeks

Voices - Nurses have a prime role in leading the new equality system, says Chris Beasley

Dame Christine Beasley

Webwise

Mark Pittman

Starting out - Lack of seniority should not stop me from speaking out

Charlotte Hatfield

Pay attention to the little things in the new year

Gay Lee

Out of sight

Jane Bates

Bearing the weight of responsibility

Christine Hancock, Katy Cooper

Outside In

David Newnham

Sick day scrutiny

Robert Munro

Notice board

You can bank on it

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

Margaret Paul

Helping hands

Justine Rawlins

Hope is key to recovery

Andy Turner, Lynn Batehup, Suma Surendranath

Magic moments

Hazel Davis

The end of a marriage worsens mental health in men and women

Vapour rub helps children with coughs to sleep better

Fish oil supplements fail to prevent postnatal depression

Telephone counselling boosts smokers’ chances of quitting

Reactions to the proposal

Unions prepare for difficult decision over increment freeze

Hospice course produces new generation of leaders

Unions slam recommendation to reduce nurse-patient ratio

Erin Dean

Regulatory measures introduced for support workers

Suspended staff often unaware of why they have been disciplined

Competition offers cash for ideas

More cancer support workers could save £89 million a year

Writers give their backing to mary seacole appeal

News in brief

Nurses miss out on essential training due to staff shortages

Erin Dean

Pioneering rapid alert system a success

Health education England will ‘simplify’ professional training

Tamsin Snow, Erin Dean

Christmas visit from carter

Calls for nurses to have flu jab following 39 patient deaths

Hospitals hand out bottled water in Northern Ireland

Honour for RCN leader

Protests over controversial plan to freeze annual pay increments

Tamsin Snow, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Government aims to improve staff gratitude

An unappealing proposal

Graham Scott