Notice board

Reach for the stars

Graham Kane

Reversing a brutal act

Sally Gillen

Successful entry

Ed Rowe

Type 2 diabetes

Amanda Gower

Reducing inequalities in healthcare provision for older adults

Nicola Davies

Education for healthcare assistants working in acute NHS hospitals

Susan Carol Webb

Promoting interprofessional care in the peri-operative environment

Linda Kenward, Leigh Kenward

Worth, Jennifer

Laurence Dopson

Student work placements in outpatients can be rewarding

Marion Williams

Privatisation has failed to improve care of older people

Mike Travis

RCN will publish guidance on mobile phone use at work

Alison Wallis

Calling all mental health nurses working in GP clinics

Lynn Miller

Corrupt and selfish attitudes are fast replacing traditional nursing values

Mike Owen

Cases of assisted suicide are rising rapidly in Oregon

Stephen Wright

Self-regulation will put vulnerable clients at risk

Joyce Robins

Crazy Like Us – The Globalization of the Western Mind

Greta McGough

Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing

Kevin Gournay

Law and Ethics in Children’s Nursing

Jayne Steer

Webwise

Irene Mabbott

Starting out - I needed to ensure the patient understood what I was saying

Dominic Rimmer

Soft words that hide the truth bring no comfort

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

Margaret Paul

I needed to ensure the patient understood what I was saying

Dominic Rimmer

Readers panel - The right time to speak out

Mike Lehane, Paul Jebb, Sue Szczepanska, Alison Crumbie

Unfit to practise

Richard Gray

A clear view

Use social media websites responsibly

They have ways of making you buy insurance, warns David Newnham

Capitalising on chaos

Anjoti Harrington

A case for action on clots

Jenny Knight

Ready to fight TB

Ginny Clark

Loaded issue

Cup of tea and a chat

Julie Penfold

Morning heart attacks are more severe than those later in the day

Women working nights and longer hours may be short of vitamin D

Vascular function improved by drinking cranberry juice

Substance misuse may block access to flu and cancer care

‘I knew things had to change with the organ donor process’

Lynne Pearce

Unannounced visits reveal the best and worst of today’s NHS

RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards

Claire Rayner tribute brings out the stars

Nurses failing to recognise the value of assistant practitioners

Tamsin Snow

Dutch translation services withdrawn

Writing project preserves memories

Unions counter Southern Cross claims that cuts will not affect care quality

Transferred prison nurses keep NHS pay

PM promises to promote integration

Reforms forum fails to insist on nurse role in commissioning

Erin Dean

New website helps bridge skills gap

Acupuncture could help patients with unexplained illnesses

News in brief

NMC uncovers nurses who are practising without registration

Hospital’s exhibition pays tribute to its famous alumni

Social enterprise founders recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours List

Healthcare staff told to report patients at risk of radicalisation

Erin Dean

Trust to ballot staff on working for free

Panorama whistleblower blames managers for care home brutality

A long-running farce

Graham Scott