Listings

Drug free pain relief

Nationwide database

More CE points

New video release

Information service

Managing asthma

Getting equipped

Current issues in community nursing. primary health care in practice

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Positive approaches to dementia care

New this month

Gerontology and nursing

Pauline Ford

Space tram, bed rest and nursing

Chris Cruikshank

Merger madness

Steve Partridge

Abortion— who needs support?

Anne Gilchrist MRC Psych

Information exchange

One minute wisdom

Parveen Sharma

Prime time for TV docs in today’s world

Janice Smith

Racism is costing health service dear

Colleen W Wedderhum

Use practitioners and pay them well for it

Mark Jones

Keep uncharitable beliefs to yourself

Mary Aikman

Nursing will never be about marketing

Karen Chilver

Melanoma helpline is a positive outcome of my loss

Maggie Roberts

Reliving a nightmare of the ‘good old days’

Janet Cryer

Palliative care: the nurse's role

Karen Rose

Setting up a shared care glaucoma clinic

Julie Hume, Fiona Abbott

Breaking bad news: caring for the family

Sylvia Dear

Modifying the body: piercing and tattoos

Jane Wright

Breaking the cycle

Lee Lanciotti, Andrew Hopkins

Nursing essential, RCN tells committee

Archimedes meets granny

Health and social care entwined

No action to end ‘care lottery’

Beat the clock

Anna Barrett

Coagulation factors and organ failure

Recommendations welcomed

Risk of TB spread in accident departments

Music in neonatal intensive care units

What Budget means for nurses

Carole Auchterlonie

More impact on EU nursing policies

Susan Williams

Tragedy made worse

Dina Leifer

Continence restored with stimulation

Decision to start single forum for nurses across Europe

Unison launches HIV/AIDS guide for union activists

Blood transfusion is major cause of HIV in older people

Charlotte Alderman

Nurses help win charter marks for public services

OH staff to be quizzed over colleagues’ fitness to work

Back-injured nurses have a better chance of keeping jobs

Kate Williams, Christina Pottykus

Fall in stress related sickness at the Post Office

Alerting staff to the dangers of latex allergies

Chancellor to fund pay rises from NHS efficiency savings

Dina Leifer

News in brief

Guy’s clean up accommodation after NS report

Union predicts ‘return to Bedlam’

Many health professionals subsidise NHS by binding their own training

Nurse in baby Ryan case is sacked for re-writing notes

No dear goals for long term care, says critical report

Dina Uifer

Fall in number of health visitors puts community nursing at risk, says RCN

Bill Doult

News

Four in ten nurses want to quit profession

Lack of critical care facilities costs lives, new studies show

Kate Williams

Call to strike off nurses who lie on PREP forms

Leadership in nursing: more than one way

Kathleen King, Geraldine Cunningham

Editorial

Norah Casey