Search Result

Search query:

Results 1 - 10 of 57 Search Tips

Sort by:

Number of results:

Women only wards discriminate

26 February 1997

Nursing Standard

Letter

I would like to comment on the story about male nurses working on women only wards (News January 29).

Nurses need more rewards than Mars bars

08 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Network

Compare two recent news stories; a £1,500 bonus for staff in a large department store and a Mars bar for nurses in hospitals in Maidstone and Kent, rewarding them...

'Poor' response because we're poor

24 June 1998

Nursing Standard

Regulars

So, officials have only had a ‘poor response’ to the health secretary’s request for nurses to write to him (News June 10). It seems they have ‘only written to...

Sounds like nursing today without the empty pockets

10 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

I saw this advertisement in a national newspaper and thought it might amuse your readers. When I first looked at it I thought it was an advert for nurse recruitment,...

Forgotten midwife

05 October 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

In the fuss over women’s rights to have their baby delivered at home, Paul Beland, the midwife sacked for attending a home birth against Peterborough District...

Doctors’ ‘uniforms’ are a hazard too

12 October 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

With regard to uniforms worn outside hospital (letters September 22), there are other people who wear nurses’ uniforms, for example, dental nurses and veterinary...

Nurses should beware of putting words in their patients’mouths

18 August 2009

Nursing Standard

Letter

While reviewing care plans for patients in care homes recently, I noticed that they were written in the first person singular.

Who makes the profit when one trust charges another?

30 September 2008

Nursing Standard

Letter

On the subject of car parking fees (news September 10), when staff working for primary care trusts visit secondary care trusts as part of their job, the primary...

State services discriminate against patients over 65

14 April 2009

Nursing Standard

Letter

Ruth Sander (letters March 25) rightly points out that we should challenge negative attitudes to older people. Although I am still working and living life to the...

Deployment of band 5 nurses raises questions of integrity

28 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Letter

I read with interest your report about Scotland’s healthcare helpline NHS 24 and England’s NHS Direct turning to band 5 nurses to work alongside existing band 6...