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Starting out - Student Kiera Jones found that doing nothing can be best

17 March 2004

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

While on placement with a district nurse I visited a patient who was terminally ill. She had a malignant tumour in her lung and metastases in her brain causing...

What I wish I had known then

10 January 2006

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Career development

My student years were chequered with many moments of burning cheeks and an urgent desire for the ground to swallow me up.

Last-minute lessons

04 October 2005

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Student Focus

When I qualified as a nurse last September I was simultaneously excited and terrified. On the one hand I was desperate to get out there and start nursing ‘properly’,...

Following a route to success

03 October 2006

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Student focus

I qualified in September 2004 and worked for a year on a surgical ward in Wales where, as a student, I had learned a great deal in a short placement. I was warned...

Webwise

26 September 2006

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Reflections

The Cancer Help UK section of the Cancer Research UK website is not particularly eye-catching but it has useful information for patients with a cancer diagnosis,...

What I wish I had known then

04 January 2006

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Careers

My student years were chequered with many moments of burning cheeks and an urgent desire for the ground to swallow me up.

Ethics of abortion: the arguments for and against

23 May 2007

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Art & Science

In England, Scotland and Wales legislation has facilitated the process of procuring an abortion to the point at which, in 2007, it appears to have been effectively...