Legal advice

Richard Griffith

Get your finger on the pulse

Robin Lewis

Toilet treasure

Florence Winterflood

Making a new support role work for everyone

Richard Griffin

Training programme offers a new route to stoma care qualification

Pat Black

NVQ changes take effect

Susan Webb

The rewards of reaching out

Jenny Knight

Courses & resources

Being heard at the highest level

Julie Griffiths

Student life - Revealing the real student

Beattie Dray

Unexpected joy

Catharine Sadler

Notice board

Put men at the heart of care

Lynne Pearce

Taking on the bullies

Richard Wright

Mental health crises

Andrew Clark

Healthcare-associated respiratory tract infection

Dinah Gould

Emotion recognition by mental health professionals and students

Henry Minardi

Effects of stress on nursing integrity

Bryan McIntosh, Bruce Sheppy

Tweets of the week

Seeking information about war nurse Margaret Maule

Geoff Earl

Changing practice in the use of intensive insulin therapy

Philip Woodrow

Sharing the blame for failing dismally to ensure good care

Mike Owen

How could such mistreatment happen and who was responsible?

Maggy Wallace

The Health Service is struggling to cope with ageing population

Dianne Jeffrey

Claim of nursing jobs being lost is simply untrue

Mark Prentice

The Safe Staffing Alliance

Chris Biggs

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

Margaret Paul

British Nutrition Foundation

Sue Cambell

Safeguarding Babies and Very Young Children from Abuse and Neglect

Jayne Steer

Lung Cancer – A Multidisciplinary Approach

Paula Gawthorpe

Testosterone Deficiency in Men – Second edition

Elspeth Raisbeck

Starting out - Caring professionals have been landmarks on my learning journey

Mandy Hall

Readers panel - Confronted with despair

Linda Drake, Steve Flatt, Craig Hopkins, Kate Tantam

Stay out of trouble

Erin Dean

Operation in hand

Lynne Pearce

Whistleblowing duties

Roger Kline

‘I work both strategically and managerially’

Proving the value of advanced roles

Erin Dean

Fall in UK epilepsy cases due to better diagnosis and reduced exposure to risk

Study explores barriers to sexual health services among women who misuse drugs

Levonorgestrel beneficial in women who have had surgery for endometriosis

Being married reduces the risk of cardiac events in both men and women

Light drinking in early pregnancy is not harmful to the child

Warmth is the hallmark of compassion

Lynne Healy

Secret ingredient

Wise words

Testing times

Roy Lilley

Jane Cummings believes that confidence in the profession can be restored

Systematic failings make care scandals inevitable

Foxes: are we barking up the wrong tree?

Proposal to split RCN functions is a red herring

Hospitals prepare for further inquiries into high death rates

Sally Gillen

News update

Specialists win case against NHS trust over demotion of roles

Peter Swingler

‘Really clear’ success for nurse with MS

World in brief

Political notebook 20.02.13

Staff recruitment from abroad rises as trusts plug skills gap

News in brief

Scottish study examines validity of care initiatives

Unions celebrate landmark deal

Hunt praises ‘extraordinary’ nurse

Judgement tests could be used to evaluate values and behaviours

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Lysa gets set to roam alone

Health secretary calls on NHS to reduce the burden of paperwork

Jennifer Sprinks

‘Apathy stops many of us from exposing poor care’

Duty of candour makes strong leaders essential

NMC fined for losing sensitive data

Review of Liverpool Care Pathway will include former chief nurse

Nurse numbers could plummet by 63,000, say government advisers

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Janet Snell, Jennifer Sprinks

End the scandal of age discrimination

Graham Scott