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Twenty years of excellence

01 April 2012

Emergency Nurse

Letter

I WOULD like to congratulate all at Emergency Nurse for this, your 20th anniversary edition. To sustain the quality of the journal for so long is quite an...

Guest editorial

01 March 2007

Nursing Management

Editorial

REFORMS, RECONFIGURATIONS and redesigns: these are the ‘three Rs’ that characterise the daily experience of staff in the NHS team, as much as the delivery of good...

Now we’re cooking!

01 April 2008

Nursing Management

Editorial

AT LAST year’s annual RCN congress, the college launched Nutrition Now, a clinical campaign to raise standards of nutrition and hydration in hospitals and the...

Voices- There must be enough well-trained staff to do the job, says Peter Carter

21 April 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

In 1859 Florence Nightingale said that it was the first requirement of a hospital to do the sick no harm. But recent weeks have shown what happens to hospitals when...

Voices

25 August 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

This country has a dangerous problem with alcohol. We hear of young people being rushed to hospital with alcohol poisoning and even some in their twenties dying from...

Voices

02 June 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

2009 was an historic moment for RCN congress – for the first time in RCN history a prime minister addressed the event. This was soon followed by a speech from...

Voices

23 February 2010

Nursing Standard

Reflections

In my last Voices column, I wrote about the importance of the next general election and what it will mean for the nation and for health care.

A promise that has to be kept

21 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

It was Malcolm Forbes, the great American publisher, who said ‘diversity is the art of thinking independently, together’.

Voices

21 October 2008

Nursing Standard

Reflection

In the past year, what started as a distant problem in the sub-prime mortgage market of the United States has become a global credit crunch with serious...

Voices-Politicians beware – cuts in health spending hurt even more during a recession

14 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Over the past few weeks the latest row between the main political parties has concerned the slashing of public spending. Will they? Won’t they? Who would do it more?...