Seven challenges

Christine Hancock

Seeking bright ideas

Jenny Knight

Training aimed at complex needs

Radhika Holmstrom

See the bigger picture

Benny Goodman

Peripheral cannulation

Lisa Scott

An overview and update of psoriasis

Liz Green

An evaluation of sharp safety hypodermic needle devices

Joanna Ford, Peter Phillips

Leadership and responsive care: Principle of Nursing Practice H

Christine McKenzie, Kim Manley

Durston, Valerie

Laurence Dopson

Valerie Durston 1935-2011

Laurence Dopson

A dismaying lack of insight into modern work demands

Sharon Basson

Assistant practitioners are key to the community team

Mary Karasu

Rallying support for the glasgow school of nursing

Jane Armer

Cuts will hit nursing as an attractive career choice

Paul Marriot

Absurd to equate education with a lack of kindness

Natasha Goodall

Fundamental nursing care is a vital part of our ‘real’ work, Ms Abbott

Alison Leary

The Sociology of Healthcare – A Reader for Health Professionals

Bashyr Aziz

Implementing Excellence in Your Health Care Organization – Managing, Leading and Collaborating

Ian Peate

Global Institutions – The World Health Organization (WHO)

Jane Salvage

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bethann Siviter

I gave evidence against a nurse who was struck off the register

Joanne Tonkin

Starting out-i gave evidence against a nurse who was struck off the register

Joanne Tonkin

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel-Spreading the message

Jessica Streeting, Linda Drake, Julie Clarke, Steve Flatt

Public spirit

Jane Bates

Outside in

David Newnham

Stars in my eyes

Irene Heywood Jones

Voices - Maintaining registration is every nurse’s responsibility, writes Tony Hazell

Tony Hazell

Testing the limits

Jenny Knight

Notice board

Straight to the point

Ginny Clark

A better death

Sue Learner

All faiths and cultures should have their place in hospital

Howard Crosby

Meet the pioneers

Tracheostomy more comfortable for ventilated patients

Vaccine protects older people against herpes zoster

Drinking spirits linked with mortality from pancreatic cancer

Exercise helps middle-aged people avoid type 2 diabetes

Nurse of the year 2011 category winners

Inspiring nurse’s the final wish of accolade helps fulfil a grateful patient

Groundbreaking bereavement service proves to be a winner

Online preceptorship programme gains accreditation

Trusts report varied compliance with new mixed sex ward rules

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

Nurse to join labour’s expert advisory group

Unions contest nhs workforce growth claims

Staff transferred out of health service left feeling ‘marooned’

Jennifer Sprinks

Quentin Blake set to liven up hospital walls

Royal national orthopaedic trust may be run by private provider

NMC criticised for releasing investigation details

Nurse ratio reduced at cancer centre

Nurse’s italian food wows judges

Trust denies pay rise to staff with more than ten days off sick

Tamsin Snow

Independent image problem

Graham Scott