Under the microscope

Jane Redfern Jones

Preparation for new roles

Elaine Maxwell

Noticeboard

Opportunities abroad

Michael Howie

Let’s do it in 60 minutes

Linda Watson

Preventing falls in older people

Loraine Lindus

Strategies to improve iron status in women at risk of developing anaemia

Emma Derbyshire

Optimising nutrition for older people with dementia

Delwyn Cole

Auditing urinary catheter care

Sue Dailly

Adele Herwitz 1919-2011 American nurse who marched for civil rights

Laurence Dopson

Herwitz, Adele

Laurence Dopson

Fitness to work assessments are tailored to the individual

Suzie Frew

Thank you for well-presented cases debating assisted dying

Celia Manson

Join the drive to ban smoking in cars for our children’s sake

Jennifer Percival

Care campaign can strengthen global nurse solidarity

Olga Simon

Personal indemnity cover and working to agreed protocols

Marc Cornock

Cameron’s efforts are a step forward, but a cultural change is required

Jessica Corner

Webwise

Laurence Dopson

Nurses’ Christian Fellowship of Scotland

Laurence Dopson

Nursing Research in Action: Exploring, Understanding and Developing Skills – Third edition

Bev Al-Azzawi

How to Master Nursing Calculations

Karen Murrell

When Nurses Hurt Nurses – Recognizing and Overcoming the Cycle of Bullying

Greta McGough

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

Margaret Paul

A blind patient taught me to rethink communication

Helen Astle

Readers panel - A race for grades

Stephanie Cumming, Steve Flatt, Shona MacLean, Carol Singleton

Tough but worth it

Jill Maben

Day trips

A wiser miser

Why positive action is not the same as discrimination

Don’t blame us

Purchasing power

Alison Moore

Tracking the patient

Daloni Carlisle

More than a checklist

Mary-Claire Mason

Better than any drug

Daloni Carlisle

Researchers study survival rates in people who suffer myocardial infarction

Physical therapy after a hip replacement helps improve patients’ walking ability

Constant vigilance is needed to reduce incidence of suicide on acute psychiatric wards

Brain scans can be used to distinguish between different forms of dementia

School-based clinics identify children with chronic fatigue illness

Ongoing development suffers as NHS invests training budgets elsewhere

Erin Dean, Jennifer Sprinks

Community staff left reeling from push to create social enterprises

Erin Dean

Political notebook 18.01.12

Jobless data found lacking as world staff shortage persists

World in brief

From prison gym to powerlift gold

Scepticism over plans to reward hospitals that use NHS safety tool

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Union members to be balloted on government’s pension plans

Tamsin Snow

News in brief

Call for more focus on staffing levels by regulator

Care Quality Commission reports highlight failures in learning disabilities services

More all-rounders needed, says forum

Training fails to prepare students for modern workplace, survey says

Jennifer Sprinks

Women under-represented in Lords despite new additions

New nursing quality group will focus on ways to support staff

Journal joins project to share research findings

Resignation at troubled regulator could lead to an extensive review

Tamsin Snow

Regulator needs strong leader and open culture

Graham Scott