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Individuals, families and the new era of genetics

01 June 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

As this book does not have a particular nursing focus, it could not be said to be essential reading. However, scientific advances in the field of genetics and...

Supporting Postnatal Women into Motherhood

01 April 2009

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THIS IS a valuable ‘How to…’ book that offers a blend of therapeutic, educational and social perspectives clustered around the setting up and running of a support...

Betraying the NHS: health abandoned

01 April 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The book’s pithy title hints at the sharp writing style that continues throughout this chunky tome. The gardening and harvesting metaphors for section headings and...

Beware the dumbing down

01 June 2006

Mental Health Practice

Interact

Dear Editor, Is there a place for longer term psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychotherapy within the government’s plans for a national service providing psychological...

Changing Minds in Therapy

01 October 2012

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

MARGARET WILKINSON is a prolific writer and a well respected therapist and speaker. She explains that the brain grows neural pathways through enriching experience...

Changing times

20 February 2002

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

I read with great interest the article on motivating patients to make dietary changes (Hunt and Pearson 2001). It describes the theory and practice of change in...

Protect your future

21 July 2004

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

While the focus is on Agenda for Change, \ / another government initiative appears V V to be sneaking in without causing too much alarm. Representatives from the NHS...

A wake-up call

30 November 2004

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

Recovery, or post-anaesthetic care unit (PACU), is perceived by many healthcare staff as anything from ‘where they wait for the patient to wake up’ to ‘the most...

Time us employees gave something back to the NHS

25 August 2009

Nursing Standard

Refleections

By now, like me, you may have had an email from your chief executive asking for ideas about how to save money in your organisation. The threat of NHS cutbacks has...

Unfair treatment

26 January 2010

Nursing Standard

Reflections

How would you react if a patient told you she would not be nursed by a gay or a black and minority ethnic (BME) health worker? You might be shocked and...