Listings

Our uniform must still be traditional

Paula Wilson

Working against prejudice

Bosnia in our homes

Sharon McVey

Lively debate on which sex makes the better nurse

Debate on recruiting healthcare assistants hots up

Stephen Frith

Conference to look at the challenge of nursing in year 2000

Meet the cybemurse

Matthew Wensley

Real poverty nightmare

Roz Osborne

A long hard road

Carol Featherstone

Stronger links with the USA welcomed

Council agrees to ANS sabbatical officers

Students’ anxieties over rent rises reflected in exam results

ENB criticised over plans to drop student-to-staff ratios

Kate Williams

Opening doors

Stan Duncan

A card to give carers more peace of mind

Lynne Phair

Socially originated

Information exchange

Don’t transport micro-organisms

Julie Cawthra

Uniform makes me a sex object

Claire

Releasing funds

One minute wisdom

Counsel and be counselled

Lizette Pugh

Let us get the research right first

Alison Morton Cooper

Healthcare assistants should be welcomed

Janice Cloud

Midwives need flexibility too

Denise Chaffer

Uniforms are not washed properly

Judy d'Albertson

Haemophilia

Liz Waters

Evaluating research and development at the ENB

Rita Le Var

Day surgery: handling patients’ complaints

Moira Edmondson, Gobnait Waters

A new apartheid

Susan D’Cruze

Fellow professionals or warring factions?

Healthy exchange

Pennie Taylor

Training to cope with a baby’s death

Kate Williams

Whistleblowing worries

JO Barr

Boost to vitamin D needed in winter

Factors influencing patients’ CPR choice

Children and iron deficiency anaemia

Ophthalmic follow-up for dysplastic naevi

Media focus pays off

Farewell to a special person

More practitioner modules on offer

Rise in suicide rate of female psychiatric patients linked to community-based care

Almost half of male prisoners have a long-standing illness

JO Ban

Patients smoking cannabis are risking their health

Focus for research to receive £250,000

Audit office criticises health authorities for spending half a million on unauthorised payments to managers

Nurses face possible redundancy as Highlands trust runs up huge deficit

Jean Gray

Union claims branch chair was victimised

Nurses willing to ‘take up the challenge’ of sex education

JO Barr

Rival union planned

Grantham nurse still suspended

Managers do not value basic caring skills

The language barrier sparks Welsh wails

News

Berkshire nurses perform cardiac resuscitation

Irish Nurses’ Organisation criticises lack of guidelines in ‘right to die’ case

Dina Leifer

Nurses and doctors join forces to write guidelines on role sharing

RCN accuses trust of bypassing unions over plans to ballot staff on pay offer

JO Bair, Kate Williams

Editorial

Stephen Frith

Editorial

Norah Casey