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If you’ve got it, share it

02 April 2003

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

Care of patients with a tracheostomy is a multi-professional issue that suffers from a lack of medical ownership. By sharing best practice across a large NHS trust...

Can off-duty nurses be expected to act in emergencies?

01 March 2002

Nursing Standard

Letter

It has always amazed me that anyone would consider practising as a nurse, midwife or health visitor without indemnity insurance. However, the decision of the Nursing...

Fair care for all

01 February 2005

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

The RCN wants long-term nursing care to be assessed and delivered by the nursing work-force and funded centrally by the NHS. This would end the lottery in the...

Standing up for smokers’ rights

02 June 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

If Geoff Earl of the Scottish Executive Group on Tobacco Control had actually listened to my contribution to the smoking debate at the recent RCN congress he would...

What difference?

19 September 1987

Nursing Standard

Letter

Would somebody please outline the fundamental differences between the potential Youth Training Scheme proposals involving the National Health Service and the Cadet...

Need to improve breastfeeding rates

17 July 1996

Nursing Standard

Letter

I was saddened to read your negative reports of the UNICEF baby friendly initiative (News July 10). The RCN supports breastfeeding and action to increase our low...

Why generic nursing does not work

02 November 1994

Nursing Standard

View point

The debate about generic nursing lingers on. While there are academic arguments for and against this issue, the academics seem to have lost their grip on what...

Local implementation of the Essence of Care benchmarks

21 May 2008

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To understand clinical practice benchmarking from the perspective of nurses working in a large acute NHS trust and to determine whether the nurses perceived that...

By their own young hand: deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideas in adolescents

01 May 2008

Paediatric Nursing

Book reviews

This book is a must-have for any healthcare professional working with young people. The first half of the book concentrates on the authors’ major survey of a large...

Managing pain using the partnership model of care

01 February 1995

Paediatric Nursing

Pain clinical

Pain relief for children has been inadequate in the past and commonly held myths regarding children and their pain experience went unchallenged for too long (2,3,4)....