Listings

Beliefs about cataract

Patricia Fathers

Eye structure: A functional view

lain Bowie

Screening for diabetic retinopathy

Margaret Spencer

A revolving role?

Margaret Studley

Critical Care Nursing of the Surgical Patient

Accident and emergency nursing: A new approach

Stephen Groves

Primary Nursing in Perspective

Helen L Ewart

Gagging the nurse

Scrutinising the power complex

Graham Towl

The generation game

Colin Gibson

Points of View

David Benton

Letter

Information exchange

Correction

No support for prodigal nurses?

C Love

Losing all credibility

Ward placements should come free

Ella Davenhall

Sick building syndrome

Peter O’Malley

Women: unique HFV transmission risks

Elizabeth Murray

Caesarean section: Psychosocial effects

Edith Hillan

Designing a diabetes specialist course

Malcolm Day, John Bunn, Mary Mackinnon

Real power to the people

Trevor Clay

The same, but different

Maura McNally

Friend or foe?

Relieving emetic side-effect of chemotherapy

Postmenopausal risk of myocardial infarction

Barley extract cream for pressure sores

Portable records are a help to the homeless

Teeth under attack from savoury snacks

Tattoo parlours in need of tighter control

Meningitis outcome, symptom-duration link

Music proves therapeutic to pain levels

Fat embolism risk from closed manipulation

World news

News in brief

Declaration attacks HIV discrimination

Eye tests

Nurse is suing for burns compensation

‘Secret plans’ to cut London HAs alleged

Nursing practice

Health information act

News

Holistic nursing care praised

BPA set to investigate lack of paediatric ICUs

Linda Bailey

No care provisions for elderly people

Patients’ views

News in brief

Row over infection control guidelines

NHS down 80,000 nurses, says Cook

News

Nurses’ pay

Proposed charter can offer improved care

‘Heavy tax demands’ looming for HAs

Managing the patient with fractured femur

Jane Cummings

Toe-nail avulsion

Graham Bruce

Calcium alginate: A dressing trial

Marion Moody

Orem and the nursing process: New directions for the 1990s

Stephen Cavanagh, Stephen Cavanagh

Moral dilemmas in nursing research

Janice Clarke, Janice Clarke

Informal carers of the dementing elderly: A study of relationships

Charlotte Clarke, Don Watson, Charlotte Clarke, Don Watson

Evaluating a change to primary nursing: Some methodological issues

Claire Hale, Claire Hale

Reasons for leaving among psychiatric nurses: A two-year prospective study

Martin Bamber

Health care research: Measuring health status

Ann Bowling

A Charter for ‘patients’

Norah Casey

Editorial

Karen Waters