A healthier mindset

Charlie Callanan

Proving your worth

Alison Leary

Notice board

Student life-it’s academic

Carys Horne, Anna Thompson

Managing sepsis

Sarah Holling

Best practice in the provision of nebuliser therapy

Carol Kelly, David Lynes

Identification, assessment and management of pleurisy

Terry Robinson

Patient empowerment and choice in chronic pain management

Janette Barrie

Person-centred care: Principle of Nursing Practice D

Kim Manley, Val Hills, Sheila Marriot

Julia Styles

Laurence Dopson

Styles, Julia

Laurence Dopson

Correction

Pointers on the optimum places to site HRT Patches

Kathy Abernethy

Prescriber needs advice on handling marketing pressure

Carole Norris

Productivity is far too complex for simple measures

Stephen Weeks

Welcome advice on how we can support abused women

Nurses have skills to assess blood donor infection risk

Drew Payne

Stroke team presents an exemplary model of care

Bernard Gibbon

The NHS is haemorrhaging money on vast amounts of drug waste

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

Margaret Paul

It Won’t Hurt a Bit – Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

Laurence Dopson

Fundamental Aspects of Research for Nurses

John Albarran

Information Skills for Nursing Students

Brian Burke

Webwise

Greta McGough

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Lack of controls

Julie Clarke, Jane Brown, Jane Scullion, Esther Tanton

Starting out

Rosalyn King

Upload and update

Lisa Falconer

Impeccable timing

Alison Handley

Labour shortage

Kathryn Rawe

Bridging the skills gap

Adele Waters

‘Nurses will show their anger at job and service cuts’

Christian Duffin

Outside in

David Newnham

Lights, camera, action

Hazel Davis

Older people helped to sleep with short behavioural therapy

Diabetes is associated with high intakes of omega-3 fatty acids

Risk of brain tumour reduced in those with multiple allergies

Exposure to workplace noise linked to heart problems

Highlights

I will fight for the right to eat cheese

Technocentric

Restraint of patients should be used sparingly

The working wounded

Stephen Wright

Impact of financial crisis on care is set to dominate agenda

Erin Dean

PM plea for more health visitors

Health union delivers petition, warning plans spell death of NHS

Man jailed for attack on nurse

Millions of pounds squandered in NHS by waste mismanagement

Erin Dean

Sarah brown backs nurses’ day campaign

News in brief

Ward managers told to refuse low budgets

Seating scheme encourages patients to drink more water

Pilot that frees senior staff for managerial tasks expands

College responds to nurses’ call for guidance in spirituality issues

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Union concern over plan to move public health to local authorities

Tamsin Snow

Drug boxes improve palliative pain relief

Keep up the improvements, urge charities

NMC agrees medical screening in drug and alcohol policy

Mid Staffs chiefs ignored low staffing levels, inquiry hears

Name change for leading journal

Needless reforms are driving out nurse leaders, minister warned

Tamsin Snow

Much to discuss and debate

Elaine Cole