Range and experience

Maggie Tatham

Nurse- training initiatives

Ella Davenhall

Primary nursing in intensive care

Janet Monkman

Review of Practical Nursing for NCLEX-PN

D Middleton

12 lead ECG interpretation

Chris Jones

Stars and strikes

Thoughts about theories

Philip Burnard

Fears for the future

Les Gelling

Paying for performance

James Buchan

Making the grade

Pippa Hyams

Obituary

Doug Langdon

Contracts of employment

P K Hill

RCN elderly interest group

Pauline Ford

‘Learning to ask for help’

Viv Markham

Comic strip nursing

Peter Loomes

Accountability in theatre care

Michael Hollinghunt

Nursing developments at the king’s fund centre

Nurse practitioners - everybody’s relative but nobody’s baby

jane Salvage

Issues in health service planning

Nick Bosanquet

Patients’ needs or professionalisation?

Tony Butterworth

Setting the scene for the revolution

Psychodynamic experience in the community

Ham Wright

Children of 'The Troubles’

Liz McElkemey

Nursing patients with a continent urinary diversion

Sian Horn

Confronting the issues

Casualties of closure

Counselling services for adolescents

Marie Woods

Lens wearers at risk from tap water

Cognitive impairment and early death

Response to beta blockers in stutterers

Efficacy of retreatment with thrombolytics

Albumin used as indicator of health

Blood pressure research challenged

Sickle cell research nearing completion

Education for breast cancer screening

Miscarriage risk from sheep infection

Funding for cardiac rehabilitation centres

Testing with rupert

Liver disease a risk factor for lichen planus

New ‘dry liner’ drainable stoma bag

News in brief

World news

Parliament

Nurse helps survey of bowel disease in Asians

Primary Health Care available for all

Ukcc stresses board involvement in training

Nurses agree to pay cut in support

News

Court award reflects nursing knowledge

Nurse given prison sentence for prescribing

Talks could lead to standards body

Government reneges on inspectorate

Rosalynde Lowe moves to quality assurance

Oncology

News

Student debt payments ‘could be deferred’

Guy’s staff face another ballot over opting-out

News in brief

News

Double bill for specialist nurse

john Naish

Draft report identifies ‘deep-seated concerns’

High-tec nursing gets an extra £ 5m

Never the twain shall meet

Norah Casey