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‘Our mentors gave us confidence’

Student life - made to measure

Keith Bradley-Adams

Best practice in audit

Dominique Askey

Promoting healthy ageing: the importance of lifestyle

Nicola Davies

Interactions between drugs and four common medicinal herbs

Roger McFadden, Nicola Peterson

A practical approach to the treatment of acne vulgaris

Isabel Lavers, Molly Courtenay

Pain management in patients following limb amputation

Suzanne Chapman

Mandatory flu vaccination for staff protects patients

Cath Summers

One criminal records check should suffice for graduates

JO Sharkey

Fresh approach needed to pain assessment in older people

Margot Lindsay

Shame on the nhs chiefs in support of unfair proposals

Kelvin Karim

Lose our goodwill and the health service is finished

Gordon Lees

Ballot over pay freeze will give rcn members their say

Gareth Phillips

Plan to freeze annual pay increments makes heavy weather of cost cutting

Julie Smith

Webwise

Greta McGough

National Autistic Society

Greta McGough

Nurse to Nurse Dementia Care – Expert Interventions

Stephen Weeks

Patients, the Public and Priorities in Healthcare

Rachael Rowe

Introducing Research and Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

Irene Mabbott

Returning to nursing after 20 years has been shocking

Lynne Healy

Starting out - Student experiences in the real world of nursing

Work force

James Buchan

Readers panel - A step in the right direction

Janet Smith, Jessica Streeting, Linda Drake, Mike Lehane

All are equal

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Too much, too late

Stephen Wright

Voices - The law needs to clarify who is responsible for dead people’s medical records

Jean Gray

Bump bonding

Oona Mashta

The time of your life

Mary-Claire Mason

Patient care on the agenda

Jenny Knight

Nursing-related targets bring bonus payments

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

Margaret Paul

Give peace a chance

Jenny Knight

Care in the air

JO Carlowe

Good and bad weather increase hospital admissions for trauma

Young women more likely than men to relapse with depression

Lower blood pressure achieved with aged garlic capsules

Sugary beverages can raise risk of gout in older women

‘This is an ill-thought out and unfair way of saving money’

Peter Carter

‘Job cuts are unavoidable if trusts have to keep paying increments’

Workforce planning shake-up prompts fears of staff shortfall

Bedside: the musical is a stateside hit

Give NMC full power to vet nurses, charity urges

Support rolls in for home care campaign

Staff happiness – and chips – may improve patient experience

Government presses on with NHS overhaul despite serious concerns

Tamsin Snow

Nurse’s innovation helps HCAs bring down pressure ulcer rates

Erin Dean

Teenagers given graphic lesson in horrors of knife crime

News in brief

Work stress cited as high contributor to depression

Scrapping pay makes students ‘slave labour’

Other public sector workers keep their increments

RCN members in despair over ‘illogical and unfair’ pay freeze

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Chief nurse orders mssa to be tracked

Pay offer could save 50,000 jobs, employers claim

Cancer charity is tickled pink by England cricket team’s fund-raising efforts

‘There are more people in hospital than there need to be’

Critical care units stretched to breaking point by seasonal flu

Erin Dean

The buck stops at the top

Graham Scott