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Songs for my body

01 July 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Songs for Your Body is a website developed by a nurse who is also a musician to help educate people with learning disabilities about personal, social, health...

Scotland and Wales urged to widen access to life-extending treatments

06 October 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Analysis

Patients in England are five times more likely than those in Wales and three times more likely than those in Scotland to get access to life-extending cancer drugs,...

Distance care is here to stay

01 October 2008

Nursing Older People

Feature

It’s only been three years since the Department of Health (DH) launched its initiative to spread telecare systems across England, thereby anchoring health and social...

Nurses recruited as special constables

26 November 1997

Nursing Standard

News

NURSES are to be asked to sign on as part-time bobbies to keep tlie peace on hospital wards.

Talking the same language

01 January 1999

Nursing Standard

Feature

THE ADVICE in a health education leaflet read: ‘Do not put the thing which shouldn’t be mentioned into the place which shouldn’t be mentioned’.

Not so sweet charity

15 April 1998

Nursing Standard

News analysis

WHEN Margaret Gritton joined the National Osteoporosis Society after being diagnosed with the fragile bone condition, she expected morale boosting information,...

Homing instinct

25 November 1998

Nursing Standard

Nurse 98 awards

WHEN JAMES PRICE went to his GP gasping for breath, the GP listened to his chest and said: ‘Right. I’m getting you an ambulance.’

Think before you nurse

09 December 1998

Nursing Standard

News analysis

MORE THAN 300 complaints of physical, verbal or sexual abuse committed by nurses were made to the UKCC this year. That figure might make outsiders think that, far...

Mental health risk is highest for students

01 January 1999

Nursing Standard

News

NEW RESEARCH published exclusively in Nursing Standard this week shows that nursing students suffer even more stress during training than in their first years of...

Older people want a choice in their carers

30 September 1998

Nursing Standard

News

OLDER PEOPLE should be given a choice in who delivers their care, the Royal Commission on long Term Care for the Elderly heard last week.