Listings

Sharing knowledge

Mike George

Can I have an AIDS test?

Janet Ford

AIDS, euthanasia and nursing

Russel Ogden

Using reflective diaries to assess students

Debbie Wallace

Sun exposure and skin cancer development: nurses’ attitudes

Gillian Morrison

Treating leg ulcers: the latest techniques

Mick Miller

Using scientific knowledge

Rewind

Regular updating of resuscitation skills

Early discharge following Gl bleed

Children's psychiatric problems untreated

Older people and nursing: issues of living in a care home

A view from the cell

A holiday from home

Readers panel - Lessons in education

Colleen Wedderburn, Cathy Gleeson, Sheila Gray, Bryon Lee

Living with depression

The power of public knowledge

Christine Hancock

Tackling taboos

Jackie Wilkinson

Sidelines

Bumph busters

Christina Edwards

Awareness is the cure

Kate Williams

Efficiency team confident of cutting NHS red tape

Pat Healy

Designing new workers for tomorrow's world

Dina Leifer

Get the message

Chaplains' access to records is controlled

Tom Keighley

An unwelcome attitude to nursing

Sally Gooch

Nurses need flexible working conditions

Peter Westwood

Internal rotation should be scrapped

Frances Wheatley

Patients want the return of matron, hats, aprons and the 'professional image'

Deborah Martin

Advanced practitioner is a risk-taking role

Dean Holyoake

How do we define child abuse?

Electronic baby-tagging scheme abandoned by medical centre

Nigel Burnham

Nurses and doctors should be prepared to be more open with patients to avoid lawsuits

News in brief

News

Practice nurses need training to provide a better family planning service, report says

'Credit card' plan for students under fire

Dina Leifer

On the move

Hygiene at home can stop child deaths

Children need emotional support in A&E

Nurses, patients and trees will be winners in £40m NHS red tape cuts

Sponsorship plans are welcomed by RCN

Dina Leifer

Protest over pension ban on practice nurses

Number of trust pay offers climbs to 43

Report proposes end of nursing profession

Dina Leiffer

News in brief

Scottish A&E nurse praised for her part in saving doctor in plane crash

Government push for more nurses in paediatric ITUs

Graham Scott

The really useful guide to portfolios and profiles (repeat*)

Jan Kelly

What is nursing update?

Editorial

Linda Thomas