Campaign aims to save specialists

Lesley Carter

Notice board

Student life - take part, get results

Julia Terry, Gwyneth Warner

Domestic violence

Charlotte Pugh

NHS job applications: a guide for nursing students

Joan Potterton

Polyhexamethylene biguanide dressings in wound management

Sian Fumarola

Wound care for injecting drug users: part 1

Gail Powell

Non-diabetic hypoglycaemia: causes and pathophysiology

Valerie Wilson

Maureen Hammond

Laurence Dopson

Hammond, Maureen

Laurence Dopson

Working to enhance care of people with lymphoedema

Cuts to NHS direct budget are bound to affect services

Drew Payne

RCN to mark centenary with history of nursing exhibit

Susan McGann

HCA training should match the responsibility they have

Self-management of blood sugar levels is essential

Nic Lee

I am a good nurse but bullies made me feel like a failure

Patients need to know if they report a concern it will be dealt with effectively

Sally Mansfield

British Pharmacopoeia (BP) 2011

Sue Jordan

Qualitative Research Methods

Ian Birkinshaw

Challenging Behaviours in the Perioperative Environment: Dealing with Bullying, Violence and Harassment – Second edition

Greta McGough

Exchange of ideas

Sue Pender

Be one degree above the rest

Dianne Watkins

I felt pressured to countersign for controlled medications

Richard Nash

Take part, get results

Julia Terry, Gwyneth Warner

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - I felt pressured to countersign for controlled medications

Richard Nash

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Policing patients

Linda Drake, Carol Singleton, Steve Flatt, Zeba Arif

Outside In

David Newnham

Equal opportunity

Jane Denton

Voices let us hear it for the joys of physical exercise, urges Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

Self-control

Let us hear it for the joys of physical exercise

All the evidence points to some pretty useless research

Pass the message

Jackie Cosh

Olympic-sized task

Christian Duffin

The nature of nurture

Ann Jaloba

Webwise

Amanda Norman

Pupils taught in small classes have higher mortality rates

Promoting exercise among south asians should be a priority

Hormone replacement therapy may reduce risk of bladder cancer

Female smokers increase risk of peripheral artery disease

Parkinson’s care under threat

The overseas visitors who leave an outstanding debt behind them

Tamsin Snow, Sarah Harrison

Staff morale at trust plummets as ward closes and beds are cut

Ethnicity gap In incidence of bed sores

Colleagues’ idea to produce non-skid socks could reduce falls and save money

Teenagers as likely to discuss end of life care as older people

Foreign nurses may shun UK if their right to settle is removed

Tamsin Snow

Trust ends set staffing levels and hands control to ward managers

Tamsin Snow

Call for hospital action on smoking

News in brief

Winterbourne View owners criticised by health watchdog

Regulator seeks views on student register

Nursing students offered £1,000 bursary plus a means-tested top-up

Southern Cross staff urged to stay put

Hospital workers on high alert after three suspicious patient deaths

Gaps in public health plans highlighted

Former nurse scoops euro jackpot

RCN inundated with ideas that could save the NHS millions

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Concerns centre on care and cuts

Nursing workforce faces decline in numbers on a ‘shocking scale’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nursing by numbers

Graham Scott