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Suspended in time

18 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

YOU WOULD THINK that nurses returning to work after a suspension, having been completely exonerated, could pick up where they left off.

I hate Martin Platt

16 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

For years I believed that patients’ views on nursing issues were informed by documentaries such asWorld in Action or Panorama. But recently a relative shattered that...

Jargon man

11 February 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

I HAVE LONG held the belief that when the UKCC was created in the early 1980s, ‘Jargon Man’ was also born. ‘Jargon Mem’ started life quietly with the introduction of...

Size matters

15 July 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

DURING THE admission procedure for people requiring psychiatric hospital care, nursing staff concentrate on the client’s current mental health problems. At the same...

Grim death

06 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

DURING THE course of any nursing career there can be few more traumatic moments than attending a coroner’s court. Nurses who have done so say it has been the worst...

Media interests

01 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

With the exception of the professional nursing journals, views on the healthcare professions are mainly expressed through the eyes of doctors. If we allow this to...

Who's off duty?

11 December 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

THE MAIN topic of conversation among nursing staff is not, I can assure you, the waiting lists or how tire ward is to be decorated over Christmas - or indeed tire...

Special eyes

09 October 1996

Nursing Standard

Features

WHEN CARING for clients who are suicidal, particularly those who have recently attempted self-harm, a common nursing response is ‘specialing’. This is one-to-one...

Home alone

03 January 2001

Nursing Standard

Prespectives

Care in the community has now become an accepted phrase in nursing circles. It is often used by politicians to highlight how effective the programme of returning...

Better go in disguise

27 June 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

magine the scene - you are lying on a beautiful beach somewhere hot and exotic - you have worked hard all year for this and all those extra nights and bank shifts...