Listings

New this month

Better self management

New software package

Computerised referencing

Training programme

Learning to communicate

Identify yourself

New this month

Informed Choice

Listen With Mother: Consulting Users of Maternity Services

Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability

The world of women

Research journeys

Senga Bond

Question time

Rachel Robinson

The road to ruin

Jane Warner

A time and a place

Judy Allen

Redundancy

Christina Potrykus

Information exchange

Not enough nurses to go around

Susan Phillips

Ethical question of waterbirth refusal

Surprise at so called ‘quality discharge’

Vic Tadd

Certainly a night to remember

Ann E Lawson

Adolescents are individuals too

Our obsession with image is unhealthy

Beryl Madden

Time to concentrate on appeals

E Caine

It’s essential to eradicate abuse

Ginny Jenkins

A national helpline could be the answer

Brenda Meakins

Long term implications of HIV difficult to grasp

Samara Hampel

Clinical audit

Clare Morrell, Gill Harvey

Assessing nutrition in elderly patients

Caroline Herbert

Suicide prevention by general nurses

Dave Roberts, John Kaddiffe

Defining the role of the specialist nurse

Sarah Ryan

Cross-country collaboration

Susan Williams

Overlooked, tired and very angry

Barry Stewart

An holistic approach to pain

Sue Hepworth, Tracy Gaskill, Chris Bassett

Speaking from experience

Bill Doult

Nurse’s joy at pensions win

Dina Leifer

Fear over large homes

Pat Healy

Lasers versus drugs in glaucoma treatment

Depression and survival rate in HIV not linked

Mutation explains outcomes in hepatitis

Role of chronic alcohol use in ARDS

News in brief

New asthma course targets non-compliance

Irish nursing unions plan rallies over fight for ‘justice’

Kate Williams

Guide to help practice nurses deal with sexual health queries

Independent review finds too few qualified staff at 150-bed private nursing home

Eight years on - over 1,500 clinical grading appeals still wait to be settled

Pat Healy

Link-up advised for nurses in small units

Little sign of mismanagement in mental health tragedies

Graham Scott

News

Dispute meeting

Science-based treatment is welcomed by RCN

Meningitis cases spark campaign

Home visits allow racial discrimination

Management of primary heathcare team undervalued, says working party

General managers offered 1 per cent

RCM to protest at manacling of women prisoners in labour

Bill Doult

Tell us about the staff shortages in your workplace

Rise in emergency admissions and growing staff crisis causes bed closures and deaths

Government ignoring major crisis in nursing recruitment, says RCN

Kate Williams

Editorial

Ncrah Casey