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The effects of pressure-reducing mattresses in CPR

Mair Fear Fear, Harry Stevens

Subcutaneous fluid administration and site maintenance

Sally Mansfield, Heather Monaghan, Judy Hall

The management of pain in wound care

Georgina Casey

Interpretation of routine blood tests

Roslyne Bratt-Wyton

Voice restoration after laryngectomy

Lynne Coltart

Towards continence

Stopping smoking and hip fracture risk

Forget underwear in male subfertility

Improving survival in colorectal cancer

New opportunities or new threats?

Caroline Hyde-Price

Resources

Towards Continence

Book review

John Turnbull

The truth helps

Oona Mashta

The culture of kat

Thomas Cunningham

Making sense of genetics

John Campbell

Genethics

Readers panel-Safety skills

Moyra Baldwin, Roger Cowell, Jimmy Nook

Worried well

Sarah Leyland

Home front

Christopher Humm

After the hurricane

Room for expansion

Alison Williams

Time to fight the biggest battle

Christine Hancock

The language of choice

Judith McNeill

Getting together

Mike George

Think before you nurse

Jenny Knight

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Sometimes it's better to go with the Flo'

Cheshire Jones

We're already doing these 'new' tasks

Jane Goldsmith Watford

Health visiting is still misunderstood

Wendy Burke

Visible nurses become powerful nurses

Serbina Ahmed

Combined effort will make a difference

Malcolm Wing

Could nurses survive without agencies?

Leslie Aldridge Hants

Bristol surgeons deserve a fairer deal

JM Woodcraft

Nurses' anger over millennium pay

Cuts in Welsh trusts must benefit nurses

Sharon Watson

News

Variable height cots in trials

Call to ban babywalkers

Nurses recruited to cut suicide rate at trust

Independent bodies to oversee home care

Nick Lipley

On the move

Home care could save £ 100 million

News

Increase in serious complaints against nurses

Agencies urged to work with UKCC

Unison: higher level plans are 'ill-timed'

News in brief

Call to curb DoH powers on self-regulation

Hearing praises student whistleblowers

News

New HIV guidelines for pregnant women

Sharon Watson

Unison advert dropped after false claims

News in brief

Discrimination nurses await court's verdict

News

Recruitment drive for mental health nurses

Bill Doult, Heather Stephen

Editorial

Linda Thomas