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New horizons

01 September 2009

Emergency Nurse

Careers

I CAN still remember when I first considered volunteering with the Mercy Ships charity.

Shorter shifts?

20 August 1997

Nursing Standard

Review

THE working time directive has assumed a mythical quality worthy of legends. It was due to be implemented in all EU member states on November 23 1996. But in the UK...

Dealing with harassment

20 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Industrial relations

Following on from the Policy Studies Institute report Nursing in a Multi-ethnic NHS, which painted a damning picture of the extent of racial harassment prevalent in...

New chapter

25 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Review

THE WORLD‘Europe’ tends to conjure up a rag-bag of apathy, confusion, passionate pro and and feelings, and prejudice - but seldom clarity.

Double helping

01 October 1997

Nursing Standard

Labour relations

FOR SOME employers, job sharing spells double trouble: two sets of contracts to administer and more management time expended. But the reality can be quite different.

The gift of dignity

06 October 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

As a young nurse in the late 1960s, I was involved in the care of an older man who needed to travel by train to a rehabilitation centre after a stroke.

My patient power revolution

29 November 2006

Nursing Standard

Reflections

About 40 years ago I arrived for an afternoon shift on a children’s ward as a first-year nursing student. A little girl with diabetes had been admitted the previous...

Tissue viability nurses’ experiences of managing wound exudate

22 October 2014

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Wound exudate presents several challenges for patients and nurses. The description of exudate volume, colour and viscosity varies greatly, often depending on the...

Teamwork

07 March 1990

Nursing Standard

Supplement welfare of children

The majority of children admitted to hospital for surgery are admitted for ear, nose and throat (ENT) operations. It was the separation of those children from their...

Blood transfusion

10 May 1995

Nursing Standard

CE

Aim and intended learning outcomes This article aims to increase the nurse's knowledge and awareness of the collection, processing, uses and safe administration of...