Listings

The management of eczema in adults

Pauline Perkins

Nursing care of patients undergoing pallidotomy

Jane Roberts

Transactional analysis: how to improve communication skills

Jan Bailey, Lesley Baillie

Nurses’ concerns about IV therapy and devices

Rosie Wilkinson

Pre-operative patient instruction: is it effective?

Jacqueline Droogan, Rumona Dickson

New link between scrapie and BSE?

Stopping staff smoking; hay mites and BSE; and touching can soothe preterm infants

A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing

Broadcast

Rosemary Cook

Gentle touch soothes preterm infants

Innovations

Multimedia

Antithesis of rare

Tony Sheldon

A fresh approach to emergency care

Sue Drummond-Fowler

Readers panel - Leave it to the experts

Paul Kirwan, Chris Bassett, Wicce St Clair Hawkins

Hurt by life, not by genes

Brendan McMahon

Train the patients

FO Ettinger

Against their will

Chance for choice

Pennie Roberts

Sidelines

Nursing vital to cancer care

Jessica Corner

Where are the specialist cancer nurses?

Kate Williams

Audit commission unfair to fundholders?

Pat Healy

Heartlands hospital not to blame

Claire Austin

Letter

Hancock wrong on lost nurses...

Daniel Hooper

Trust is committed to breast care

JC Dobson

Finance, travel and lack of preceptorship put heavy burden on welsh students

Helen Whyley

Working together to control ‘superbug’

Teresa Tunnicliffe

Keep it simple with fruit and cardboard

Margaret York

Job fears as cancer care is reorganised

National Childbirth Trust launches directory of UK stores are ‘breastfeeding friendly’

Poster abuses child's rights, argues RCN

Dina Leifer

News

'Things have come full circle,' says nurse who started training 55 years ago

Self-employed nurses are the way forward

Norah Casey

On the move

News

Bank nurses protected after employment tribunal decision

Protest over jobs merger

Dina Leifer

RCN rebukes trust‘s EN claims

Row over insurance for independent midwives

News in brief

Mirror backs recruitment campaign

NHSE and unions tell trusts to top-up pay

Pat Healy

News

Fundholding GPs split on optimum grade mix for district nurses

Workforce cuts and ‘generic worker’ predicted for NHS

Dina Leifer

Editorial

Norah Casey