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Sound effects

17 May 2000

Nursing Standard

Feature

THE CONTINUOUS noise in her ear dominates her life, says Cheryl Cornwell, I who has acute tinnitus. 'Sometimes it’s; I just a ringing or clicking - but when it’s! I...

Talking about cancer

23 August 2000

Nursing Standard

Cover feature

I N A BRIGHTLY painted classroom at Honeywell junior school in Batter sea, London, teacher Beccy Mepsted is broaching a taboo subject. Today we're going to think...

Laying it on the line

21 June 2000

Nursing Standard

Special focus

A YOUNG mother is worried that her toddler may have eaten slug pellets. He looks fine, but is there a way of telling if he has actually swallowed any and, if so,...

Therapy that works

01 April 2002

Nursing Standard

RCN congrees preview

IT IS LUNCHTIME at the RCN Direct building on the outskirts of Cardiff. A group of nine nurses is enjoying a buffet lunch and chatting over events. It is a relaxed...

Feeling the freeze

05 February 2002

Nursing Standard

Feature

‘TO BEGIN with, I just felt extremely cold in my hands, feet and ears,’ says Aileen McGregor, who has suffered from severe Raynaud’s phenomenon for more than 20...

I thought I was a dreadful mother’

21 August 2002

Nursing Standard

Analysis

JENNIFER SUFFERED serious postnatal depression after the birth of her son four years ago. ‘Soon after delivery I became very tearful and extremely anxious,’ she...

Looking good

11 June 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

THE LIGHTS are low, new-age music plays quietly in the background and Sue Rigby is enjoying a facial. ‘That’s absolutely gorgeous,’ she tells beauty therapist Andrea...

In the blood

10 September 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

JENNY CHAMBERS was 28 when she first discovered that she was pregnant. It was a textbook pregnancy in every way, except for just one thing – from around the...

A larve affair

09 April 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

Meeting of minds

23 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Analysis

UGANDA WAS once immediately associated with the horrors of the Idi Amin era. More recently the east African country gained notoriety as a leading player in the AIDS...