Colostomies and their management

Barbara Borwell

It all depends

Linda Nazarko

Cooking up a stink

Marian Clulow

Psychological management of schizophrenia

Kevin J M Gournay

Management of Pain, Fatigue and Nausea

Jenny Hunt

Nurse nell of the middlesex

Sheila lovell makes an empassioned plea for nurses to remember their duty of care to patients and the importance of liaising with relatives over life and death decisions

Out of her league?

Christopher Goodall

Information exchange

One big, politically correct, happy family

Jane Bray

Give the four-layer bandage some credit

Stephen D Blair

No hang ups about sex education

Vince Ion

Butter the devil you know

Patrick Cunningham

Private thoughts on moonlighting

P Couch

Let us qualify the term ‘registered’

Peter Rigotti

Our residents are number one

Rosina E Thurley

Educating children about heart disease

Grace M Lindsay, John Christie, Allan Gaw, Christopher J Packard, James Shepherd

Promoting mental health in women

Painful crises in sickle cell conditions

Merry France-Dawson

Doing a double act

Karen M Jackson, Deborah M Williams

Regional variation

Mike George

Young, abandoned and homeless

Robert A Holden

Ultrasound unreliable in reflux nephropathy

‘Liquid scalpel’ developed for tissue protection

Tap water risk to contact lens wearers

Lesbian sex no risk for HIV transmission

News in brief

News

Practice nurse launches asthma workshops for children

Measles vaccine safe with egg allergies

News

World news

Children’s consent vital in research issues

News in brief

Low-cost care for lung cancer sufferers

MPs attack South Birmingham HA over financial incompetence

Report praises top nurses in HIV care

Kate William

Nurses help to draft new bill on patient confidentiality

Simon Canning

News

Only 1 in 10 accept nursing home reforms

News in brief

New welsh charter may hinder nurses

News

Nurse prescribing is ‘too restrictive’

New calls on banning cigarette advertising

Ill health linked to poverty still plaguing the health service

News

News

LAS fails to warn charing cross of car bomb casualties

Simon Canning

News in brief

Colin Ralph hearings sets for next week

Trevor clay is honoured at st paul’s

Sacked nurses face compensation blow

Detained patients can be treated against will rules judge

CNO’s central role is secure at DoH

Graham Scott

Hep B surgeon faces jail sentence

Nursing students sleep out in protest at rent rises

King’s fund warning over bed closures

Deputy CNO quits after four months

DoH report lists task takeovers for nurses

Simon Canning

Editorial

Linda Thomas