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Ethics, genetics and familial cancer

01 May 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

Editorial

Genomics is hailed as the solution to many of the healthcare challenges of our generation. In the UK, where morbidity from most infectious diseases has been...

Directions – A Guide to Key Documents in Health and Social Care 2004

19 April 2005

Nursing Standard

Book Review

The range and number of official documents, reports and guidelines that have an impact on healthcare practice can seem overwhelming.

Nurses should be up to speed on pharmacogenetic testing

17 February 2009

Nursing Standard

Letters

The expectations for pharmacogenetic testing have been high, partly because of the hype surrounding the human genome project (art & science January 28). But...

Student experience highlights need for good communication

13 April 2010

Nursing Standard

Letter

Writing about a first-year placement where she was asked to chaperone an intimate examination (reflections March 24), nursing student Sara Yates says the doctor’s...

A clinical guide to inherited metabolic diseases – Third edition

20 June 2006

Nursing Standard

Book Review

Inherited metabolic diseases are individually rare but together comprise a significant proportion of single-gene disorders. The author, Joe TR Clarke, is an...

Essentials of teaching and learning in nursing ethics – perspectives and methods

10 October 2006

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This textbook is written to address the needs of the nurse as educator and the nurse as student. The editors have succeeded in writing a book that genuinely...

Inherited Metabolic Diseases – A Guide to 100 Conditions

03 October 2007

Nursing Standard

Book review

This guide has been commissioned by the National Information Centre for Metabolic Diseases, in association with its charity Children Living with Inherited Metabolic...

Directions – A Guide to Key Documents in Health and Social Care 2004

13 April 2005

Nursing Standard

Book review

The range and number of official documents, reports and guidelines that have an impact on healthcare practice can seem overwhelming.

Patient-centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

19 July 2006

Nursing Standard

Book review

David Jeffrey says this practical guide is written for ‘patients, families and everyone involved in palliative care’. But the use of ‘doctor’ throughout the book and...

A Clinical Guide to Inherited Metabolic Diseases - Third edition

14 June 2006

Nursing Standard

Book review

Inherited metabolic diseases are individually rare but together comprise a significant proportion of single-gene disorders. The author, Joe TR Clarke, is an...