Notice board

A Euro card could open doors

Alan Osborn

Best advice? Be prepared

Keith Bradley-Adams

Bank on success

Emma Lunn

Student life - Bank on success

Emma Lunn

Screening for MRSA

Abebech Alemu

Reducing infection associated with central venous access devices

Katie Scales

Diet and lifestyle as trigger factors for the onset of heartburn

Katie Oliver, Gloria Davies, Peter Dettmar

Applying the Preferred Priorities for Care document in practice

Joanne Reynolds, Sue Croft

Wavell, Mike

Laurence Dopson

Mike Wavell - 1947-2011 Nurse, businessperson, politician and fundraiser

Laurence Dopson

Recovery from Depression Using the Narrative Approach

Charlie Sloan

When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough – Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, their Patients, and their Profession

Bríd Hehir

Notes on Nightingale - The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon

Frances Pickersgill

Webwise

Julie Scholes

Happy index

David Newnham enjoys the spring air but is mindful of late-onset hay fever

Chris Beasley urges nurses to respond to the prime minister’s listening exercise

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

Margaret Paul

Nurses fear ‘unfettered’ market will ruin the NHS

Howard Catton

My invention helps patients to apply anti-embolism stockings

Neomi Bennett

Readers panel

Mike Lehane, Carol Singleton, Candice Pellett, Mandy Allison

Starting out - My invention helps patients to apply anti-embolism stockings

Neomi Bennett

Outside In

David Newnham

Life on the precipice

Stephen Wright

Voices - Chris Beasley urges nurses to respond to the prime minister’s listening exercise

Dame Chris Beasley

A ‘can do’ attitude

Lynne Pearce

Surface details

Mary-Claire Mason

Access all areas

Get yourself connected

Firas Sarhan

Game on for 2012 target

Christian Duffin

Proper documentation is good for patients and staff

Linda Esquibel

Dementia care is best given by mutually supportive teams

Victoria Goodison-Barak

Unwanted medicines scheme saves large sums of money

Julie Davies

Reforms protest is a turning point in the RCN’s history

Mike Travis

Placements can be daunting when there is little support

Providing direct patient care is a learning experience for students

Gary Jones

Antibiotics not associated with resolution of cough

Retrospective study into sepsis and meningitis in infants

North-south divide continues in heart attack incidence

Drinking one extra coffee a day can reduce risk of cancer

A worldwide quest for improvement

What do nurses think of the image of the profession?

International Nurses’ Day: an ideal chance to promote the profession

Nurses of the world unite in Malta

Doubts over the future of prescribing role in the Bahamas

Vote to help workforce in Bahrain

RCN’s campaign against cuts to jobs and services wins praise

Heavy workloads prevent focus on non-communicable diseases

Older people interventions bring role of patient nutrition into focus

Nurse of the year plans to set up advisory workshop

College secures legal payouts for staff

‘Dragons Den’ panel will assess researchers’ ideas

News in brief

Listening panel finds that speed of NHS change is biggest worry

University’s licence to sponsor foreign students suspended

Government tried to cover up hospital failures, public inquiry learns

Team assesses equipment to ensure safe handling of casualties at 2010 Olympics

Unions warn of damage to patient care

NMC to keep student records in bid to ensure fitness to practise

Heroic front line war nurse remembered

About-face? About time

Graham Scott