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The path to becoming president

01 December 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Profile

Sylvia Denton, the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) first nurse in clinical practice to be elected President for over two decades, is absolutely clear on the fact...

Notes on nightingale: the influence and legacy of a nursing icon

01 October 2011

Nursing Management

Book Review

Eight nurse historians offer an insight into Florence Nightingale’s struggles with the powerful demands of doctors and politicians, the religious bigotry of...

How to change your career

01 November 2007

Nursing Management

Book Review

CIRCUS PERFORMER, black cab driver or guest house owner: for which of these would you swap your job?

Prioritise public protection

21 January 1998

Nursing Standard

News Comment

SHOULD THE UKCC develop the nursing professions or should it concentrate on protecting the public? Should health visitors cease to be a separate profession and...

Nursing solutions

08 July 1998

Nursing Standard

Feature

NURSES SHOULD capitalise on the NHS White Paper reforms, believes England’s chief nursing officer, Yvonne Moores. But how? As the consultation on the strategy for...

Time to catch up

03 June 1998

Nursing Standard

Feature

DESPITE THE fanfares and self congratulation, the existing system of nurse education does not equip nurses to function as equals with their colleagues in the world...

DoH quality drive fails on ‘real’ issues

21 October 1998

Nursing Standard

News

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS for improving NHS quality fail to tackle what really matters to patients - hygiene, nutrition, dignity, privacy, safety and support, according...

Part-time courses do not bring pay or recognition

24 March 1999

Nursing Standard

News

NURSES WHO undertake part-time post-registration courses while holding down a job often fail to reap the benefits, a study has found.

Nursing crisis threat to clinical governance

14 October 1998

Nursing Standard

News

THE GOVERNMENT drive for clinical governance may be under threat from the realities of nursing shortages, waiting lists and lack of time and resources, ministers...

Don't give up

24 October 2001

Nursing Standard

Careers: jobs focus

CAROLINE VAFEAS has good reason to be grateful to Robert the Bruce and his maxim 'If at first you don't succeed, try and try again', for her career has not been...