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Nursing Standard columnists recall the books that stood out for them in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exposure to holy water can make patients seriously ill, a infection control lead nurse has warned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients sent home from a hospital were wrongly recorded as dead when a group of nurses was asked to use a new IT system without receiving appropriate training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the support of chief nursing officer Sarah Mullally on the implementation of an audit of black and minority ethnic staffs at the National Health Service in England. He believes that the action of Mullally reinforced an amendment to the Race Relations Act that requires all public bodies to publish a race quality scheme. He suggests that health service stops institutional racism.

The article discusses the proposal of a scheme that offers a secure, affordable and sustainable final salary pension for nurses with no additional cost to the National Health Service (NHS) in the health care industry in Great Britain. The proposal would retain existing members of the NHS pension scheme under the age of 60 and ages 65 for future staff. The scheme will be out for consultation for three months from September 2006 and the final deal will be presented to the government in December 2006.