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01 February 2002 | Vol 5, Issue 5
Primary care

Introducing a mental health training programme for practice nurses

Nessie Shia, Sarah Marriott

Research & practice

NHS Direct: Improving the service available to callers with mental health problems

Janet Lees, David Scarrott, Steve Hemingway

Book review

Plain Words for Nurses: Writing and Communicating Effectively

Eileen MacCallum

Coping with Bereavement

John Cutcliffe

Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

Anne Aiyebusi

Overcoming Depression: A Five Areas Approach

Catherine Gamble

Understanding and working with the spectrum of autism

Laurence Baldwin

Resources

Diary

Review of the month

Ben Davidson

Obituaries

End of an era?

David Brandon, Annie Therese Altschul, Phil Barker

International perspectives

Tradition and contemporary mental health nursing: Report from the Congress of Nordic Psychiatric Nursing Associations

Martin Ward

Opinion

Taking on nurse prescribing powers could lead mental health nurses away from the core concepts that underpin nursing, argue John Cutcliffe and Peter Campbell

John Cutcliffe, Peter Campbell

News feature

A shaming problem

Eileen MacCallum

News feature

Report summary

Interact

People

Letter

Letter

Jonathon E Lynch

Letter

Jess Lievesley

Letter

Simon Shaw

Letter

Joanna Bennett

A&S Science

The enigma of violence: Developing a therapeutic response

Rick Tucker

News

Nurse consultants:

Ian McMillan

Better handling of refugees needed

News

Security policies found to vary widely between units

Inpatient care blighted by staff shortages

Ian McMillan

Five-year plan launched in prisons

News

News in brief

Editorial

Editorial

Ian Mcmillan

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