When to blow the whistle

Francesca West

‘When I was at university’

Education technology

Stephanie Brander

Which computer to buy?

Gavin Innes

Get to grips

Jean Rose

Shhhhh... libraries have more to offer

Tricia Berhardt

Maximising opportunity

Ann Bell

Getting the dose right

Helen Jones

Money you can claim

Claire Cannings

Learning to care

Anne Waugh, Liz Adamson

Plan ahead, then you can have fun

Gill Robertson

Lasting the course

Cathy Taylor

Learn your rights about dismissal

Marc Cornock

An opportunity for change

Cheryll Adams

Tales of a novice

Isabel Dosser

Diabetic ketoacidosis

Catherine Gibbs

Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing

Juanita Hoe, Rachel Thompson

Support for men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer

Alison Townsend, Amanda Jones, Christian Smith, Janet Marty

An overview of pharmacology and acute pain: part one

Felicia Cox

Auld, Margaret Gibson

Rosalyn Marshall

Information should be shared – with suitable safeguards

Jane Brown

Dignity and respect work both ways in hospital

Katherine Murphy

Hand hygiene audit useful as part of improving practice

Juliette Cosgrove

Activity-based dementia care realises patients’ potential

Alan Chapman

Removal from the register a warning on role of nursing

Michael Fowell

NMC too rigid on misconduct in nurse-patient relationship

Marc Cornock

Slavish application of protocols is far from genuine evidence-based care

Austyn Snowden

Webwise

Bruce Lindsay

Scottish Centre for Telehealth

Letters to Sam – A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life

Greta McGough

Study Skills for Health and Social Care Students

Bennett Mott

Understanding Research for Nursing Students

Nana Theodorou

Bright eyes

Jane Bates

Starting-out honesty with patient’s family helped complete care ‘journey’

Ben Stockdale

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel : A question of full disclosure

Esther Tanton, Julie Clarke, Mandy Allison, Moyra Baldwin

OutsideIn - David Newnham’s quest for a cheap antihistamine has become a crusade

David Newnham

Power of belief

Stephen Wright

Voices - Midwives have been given a clear direction by a new report, says Chris Beasley

Dame Chris Beasley

Notice board

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

Margaret Paul

Unlocking potential

Lynne Pearce

Changing young minds

Jenny Knight

A mystery no more

Catherine Quinn

An Olympian task

Christian Duffin

Green spaces affect emotional wellbeing more than physiology

Too few acute trusts have implemented chaperone policies

Drug for osteoporosis does not increase risk of cancer

Mental health policy should strive to keep people in work

Once in a generation overhaul is changing nurse education

Concern over opt-out from assisted suicide bill

Healthcare watchdog pushes for tougher audit of pressure ulcers

Jennifer Sprinks

More evidence is needed on justice roles

Health white paper ‘packed’ with Lib Dem policies

Nurse offers support to mentally ill defendants

In brief

Frustration over late recall of diabetes drug

CHRE denies it will be axed as part of quangos shake-up

Scotland prepares for overhaul of healthcare assistant regulation

Richard Staines

A taste of victorian nursing practice

DH tells clinicians to publicise obesity risks in the battle for public opinion

Workforce needs to be ready for redeployment, minister warns

Erin Dean

Pay tops list of nurses’ concerns

Student funding plans await Treasury decision

Front line staff reveal full extent of wasteful spending across NHS

Psychosis in pictures

Advanced practice to be strictly defined by set of competencies

Erin Dean, Jennifer Sprinks

Advanced thinking

Graham Scott