Listings

A help or a hindrance?

Vic Tadd, Reg Pyne

Messages from the frontline

Kate Harmond

New horizons for pioneer new nurse

Sister Susie

Readers panel

Ian Llewellyn-Nash, Nicky Keel, Gerry McDermott, FO Ettinger, Pam Alford, Nicholas Davies, Janette Neeld, Gail Kilbane, Kath Lowe, Maggie Kirk, Brenda Meakins

Healthy debate

Jackie Watren, Cris Allen, Andrea Martin, Malcolm Harrison

One minute wisdom

Irene Pickering

Cruising back to a land of depression

Fiona Kay

Information exchange

Peaceful death is just as important

Lorraine Lake

Don’t write off the bad spellers

Joanne Rands

It’ll be all right on the night shift

Andrea Martin

The added stress of preparing for PREP

Fair Deal campaign is for all nurses

Joan Anderson, Elaine Lawrence

Menorrhagia: care and treatment

Dinah Gould

A review of the uses of epidural analgesia

Sue Greenland

Identifying the coping behaviours used by nurses in intensive care

Malty Ehrenfeld, Yoram Bar-Tal

Using care plans to replace the handover

Ray Wallum

Modules for the 90s

Anne Simpson

A forum for support

Catherine Gaskell

One nurse’s war

Avis Hutt

Fight for a nurse on the new boards

Jenny walford

What the public says

Kate williams

All a misunderstanding

Dina Leifer

Breast tumours found to contain PSA

School-based approach to drug misuse prevention

Psychiatric symptoms in homeless people

Improving fitness reduces mortality

Children on the ball about diet, smoking and poor health

Head start for Teesside team in ITU patient transfer care

Eco-group launch breast cancer campaign

More funding needed to make cancer plans a reality

Kate Williams

News in brief

Measles campaign hailed as success

New health screening for Scottish posts

RCN’s last bid to get nurse executives on health boards

King’s Fund links poverty and ill health

Daniel Allen

Specialist nurse role in beating outpatient delays

Mental health bill will fail to tackle service shortfalls if extra funding is not available

Nurse privatisation plans spark fears

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

News in brief

Call for more nurse training to help smokers quit

Kate ’Williams

Concern over accountability in standards set for ODPs

PREP helpline buzzes

Health policy for men ruled out

RCN members to vote on historic vote to change no-strike rule

Dina Leifer

The really useful guide to portfolios and profiles

Jan Kelly

Editorial

Norah Casey