Beat the bullies

Sarah Zanoni

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Learn to teach

Heather Mercer, Marie Curie

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The role of nurse practitioners in primary care groups

Jean Lewis

Emergency contraception: implications for nursing practice

Sheila Quinn

The uses of pulse Oximetry

The efficacy of hypnotherapy in the treatment of migraine

Mike Matthews, Steve Flatt

Advanced practice nursing in Canada: has the time really come?

Kathleen de Leon-Demare, Karen Chalmers, Debbie Askin

Research and practice development in Wales

Dave O'Carroll, Helen Nethercott, Angela Perrett

Red alert, red alert! It’s time for EastEnders

Jennie Cowell

Fighting for pension rights for same sex couples

Ronald Strank, Roger Fisher

Core elements of care are being neglected

P Linton

Qualifications that ignore the basics of care

KD Ashton

An information tool for nurses everywhere

Amy Coenen

Give us the hard facts on baby walker dangers

Chrissie McGrew

Language must recognise nursing's inexact science

Graeme Elrick Hereford

We already have a safe staffing measurement tool at our disposal: nursing skill

MJ Pointon

A can-do diploma

Liz Hudson

Foot note

Has your employer signed up

Utopia unplugged

Seamus Ward

Standard life

Daniel Allen

View from the chair

Debbie Murdock

What is safe?

Jim Buchan

Assault on women

Baroness Rendell

Shaping the future

Opening the door

Colin Wright

Millennium

Nick Lipley

Exercise schemes have only short-term success

Depression in older people might be caused by stroke

Practice nurses lack skills in mental health care

Fathers’ influence on age daughters reach puberty

Monsters under the bed

Lynne Wallis

What do you look for in a new job?

Career concerns top the agenda

Rael Martell

Call to publicise suicide inquiry

News

Nursing ‘uniquely placed' to lead clinical governance

Rael Martell

On the move

News in brief

All nurses' care to be scrutinised

New legal powers to act for 'incapacitated’ patients

Nick Lipley

News

Student fears over holiday rosters

Agency nurses in line for equal pay at millennium

Rael Martell

Bursary payment delays threaten studies

News in brief

Nurses face paying more tax for counselling ‘perk’

Helen Gilbert

Choose the right remedy this winter

From A&E nurse to catwalk model

Strike action nets £20 million deal

Zero tolerance adverts are genuine

Ministers hope NHS direct will save hospitals from yet another bed crisis

Nick Lipley

Flexible working suits everyone

Call for new year guarantee

Regard for the past gives eye to the future

Morag White

Full capacity, but who will be in charge

Tax office goes bananas

Linda Thomas