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Nursing in a secure health setting

Les Storey, Richard Bradshaw

Eczema

Jill Peters

Understanding genetic and disease

Please help! I’m newly qualified

Carol Bick

Evidence-based practice: demolishing some myths

Hugh McKenna, John Cutcliffe, Patricia McKenna

Factors affecting the decision to place a relative with dementia into residential care

Madeline Armstrong

Research is every nurse’s business

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Back in the saddle again

Wendy Douglas Cheshire

Correction

Elderly people are getting inferior care

Dianne Ewin

Nicotine use needs to be more thought out

MG McGail

Don't accept defeat, sort out the problem

Lynne Phair

Letter

L McHutchison Hamilton

Students with children want support from colleagues

Sal Porter

Resources

Clinical Supervision

Neil Gordon

... Or how men stole the show in health care

Stella Backhouse

Standard life - So was that the best way to step from one century into the next?

Daniel Allen

Across the groat divide

Michelle Dixon

What's it all about?

Mark Baker

Standing her ground

Viv Semmens

Waving not drowning

Janet Mearns

For the record

Jenny Knight

Readers panel special: should all nurses have the right to prescribe?

FO Ettinger, Dean-David Holyoake, Brid Hehir, Chris Bassett

To prescribe or not to prescribe

Helen Clarke, Lorna Macnamara

What do you want?

The Nurse Prescribing Formulary (1999-2000)

Stretching new wings

Lynne Pearce

Prescribing: the challenge

Nick Lipley

Education: mid-term report

2000 - faster, fairer and convenient

Delivering the goods

Graham Scott

Vaccine overcomes resistance problems in pneumonia

Liver ceil infusion can buy time waiting for transplant

Parents should avoid sleeping on a sofa with their infants

Parents should avoid sleeping on a sofa with their infants

Hysterectomy outcome good Parents should avoid sleeping for sexual functioning

Law changed to protect nurses

Research may end NHS Direct controversy

Agency owners confused by regulation shake-up

Helen Gilbert

Decision-making power for nurses

Prison nursing under scrutiny

News

Stopping drugs prior to surgery may increase risk

Helen Gilbert

On the move

MPs to consider 'euthanasia’ bill

Hard times for care homes

NHS improved since Bristol tragedy

Paediatric health services fail children, says RCN

Nick Lipley

Universities make learning easier

Nurses will have training in IT management skills

Adele Waters

Confidence crisis in use of spirometers

News

Nurses honoured

Scottish survey reveals nurses at 'breaking point'

Personality disorder plea

Sex object image is out of date

NHS managers call for a 'modest' rise

Start spreading the news

'Brilliant' staff thanked for their hard work over millennium break

When carers decide they can no longer cope

The year of the big issues

Jean Gray