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The Company of Strangers

01 June 1991

Elderly Care

Review

It's a young person's world. Beauty is seen as skin-deep and wrinkle free. There's a lot of body fascism about. The dream images of youth, beauty and attractiveness...

Campbell’s physiology notes

01 June 2011

Emergency Nurse

Book Review

THESE ARE excellent, inexpensive notes on the causes, pathophysiological changes and clinical features seen in disease processes.

The Healing Presence of Art – A History of Western Art in Hospitals

01 April 2013

Nursing Management

Book review

THE FRONT cover depicts a glorious, painted central panel of Piero della Francesca’s 15th-century Madonna della Misericordia, the Compassionate Madonna. It ends with...

Lives Remembered: Telling the Stories of Older People – An Anthology

01 March 2012

Nursing Older People

Book Review

THREE NURSING students at the University of York have each written a short story based on the memories of a nursing home resident. It is a great read – a snapshot of...

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11 May 2010

Nursing Standard

Review

The Headway website says the campaign’s aim is to highlight the danger signs that indicate patients discharged from hospital with a head injury should immediately...

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22 September 2009

Nursing Standard

General article

London-based ophthalmic charity the Al Hasan Foundation opened an eye clinic in the Iraqi city of Najaf, 100 miles south of the capital Baghdad, in January this...

Failing the BME community

29 August 2006

Nursing Standard

Editorial

In February 2004, the then chief nursing officer for England Sarah Mullally supported the RCN’s call to implement an audit of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff...

Swimming against the tide

15 August 2006

Nursing Standard

Editorial

Two weeks ago, we revealed on our news pages that the final salary pension scheme for existing and new NHS staff had been saved but that nurses will end up paying...

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01 February 2011

Nursing Standard

General article

Book of the Dead is an exhibition at the British Museum that brings ancient Egyptian death and the afterlife into focus.

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20 September 2010

Nursing Standard

Review

Trigeminal neuralgia is a neuropathic disorder of one or both trigeminal nerves that is characterised by episodes of intense facial pain.