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A little tare can go a long way

30 October 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

IT WAS a funny week. When your doctor phones to say he’d like to speak to you a week after you’ve had a bone scan, you know things are looking dodgy.

New system is better

05 March 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

My enquiries to one local practice manager and the local community health council found that they feel the new system is an improvement on the old.

Mind's eye view

14 April 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

When a doctor tells youthat before too long you willbe chatting with St Peter, onaccount of some ‘bony mets’, family and friends deluge youwith helpful literature,...

A positive outlook

11 December 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

WHEN I HAD a mastectomy in early 1988 there was a young woman of my own age in the ward with me whose GP had failed for months to recognize the symptoms of a bowel...

Out of sight

13 May 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

ONE OF THE good things about being a bank nurse is that you get to work with lots of different people and can admire, and learn from, a wide range of nursing skills.

Play it again sister

01 September 1999

Nursing Standard

Opinion

During my time as a bank nurse I have come across many different styles of handover, or report, from the briefest rundown to a long and detailed description of each...

Look on the bright side

28 March 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspective

When I was told I was to have chemotherapy the possible benefits were hardly mentioned, while the list of possible horrors - sickness, haemorrhoids, hair loss,...

Flower power

11 April 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

When I was at school I was one of those kids who just could not draw. Our art lessons were spent giggling at each other's pathetic efforts, looking on in amazement...

Shift the balance

17 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Opinion

A recent case of an employment tribunal victory by two general nurses, who had to accept redundancy when compulsory rotational shifts were introduced by their trust,...

Bank nurses should have rights too

18 November 1998

Nursing Standard

Letter

Job description: “You will be required to be available for any shift, on any ward or department, sometimes at very short notice. There will however, be no guarantee...