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We need you

05 August 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

IN MARCH this year an NHS taskforce on staff involvement was set up. It comprises doctors, managers, a union national officer, an academic, a representative from...

Appointments to NHS task force show we are taken seriously

08 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Letter

I feel very honoured to have been selected to join a new task force which will be advising ministers on ways to increase staff involvement in improving patient...

A resourceful bunch

09 May 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspective

I recently returned from a two-week trip to the Sudan where I was a guest of the Upper Nile University nursing college in Khartoum. It is a new and inexperienced...

A sanctuary from anxiety

16 November 1999

Nursing Standard

Careers: jobs focus

HE PAST decade has seen enormous changes in women's health care. As financial and management pressures on the health service have increased, the time available for...

Hysterectomy

04 April 2001

Nursing Standard

CPD

Hysterectomy is often thought of as a last resort, but it is a common operation and there are many reasons why it is carried out. The author looks at these and...

Putting education into practice for pre-operative patient assessment

02 August 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article provides a background to current practice in pre-operative assessment (POA) and outlines a POA lead nurse role that was successfully introduced in two...

Views from the front

04 February 1998

Nursing Standard

News analysis

'I am quite disappointed and find the staging of the award difficult to cope with.