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Letter

01 January 1995

Nursing Management

Letter

Guy’s and St Thomas’s director of quality and nursing Wilma MacPherson provides yet another reminder of the shortage of nurses with the right backgrounds to occupy...

Leadership and you

01 April 1996

Nursing Management

Leadership and you

Large organisations are like oceangoing liners. They cannot change speed too rapidly and are slow to change direction. On the oilier hand, the crew on the bridge, or...

Running for life

02 April 1988

Nursing Standard

Lifestyles

Don't be surprised next time you are walking in Regent's Park if a fit 50-year-old jogs past you carrying a stick. It will only be the Royal College of Nursing's...

Towards a long term strategy

23 September 1987

Nursing Standard

Commentary

Whose responsibility is it to resolve the nursing manpower crisis? According to the Institute of Health 'service Managers in its comments on Project 2000, the...

Leadership: the hidden dangers

13 December 1995

Nursing Standard

Special focus leadership

Irrespective of the reasons for assuming a leadership role, the responsibility will have a significant impact on everyday life, sometimes beneficial and sometimes...

Leadership and you: planning for success

06 March 1996

Nursing Standard

Regulars

The Royal College of Nursing Leadership Project began around three years ago with the aim of ‘ensuring that the potential evident among nurses in clinical practice...

Whither the Nurse

15 April 1989

Nursing Standard

Letter

The day the Secretary of State announced the publication of a Strategy for Nursing, produced by the Department of Health's Nursing Department, how could he respond...

Time study

25 March 1989

Nursing Standard

News feature

Yet again, the use of nurses has been put under the microscope from the Department of Health (1). Managers are reminded that their approach to the effective use of...

Management — style counsel

05 November 1988

Nursing Standard

Nursing Standard - special supplement

The 40th Anniversary of the NHS is not only historic as a milestone in the life of the NHS, but will be remembered by nursing as the year of great opportunity. The...

The support worker - the way forward for the 1990s

30 January 1990

Nursing Standard

Points of view

The introduction of nationally recognised training for support workers to nurses continues to give rise to contusion and misunderstanding. The confusion arises in...