International

Altered presentation of illness in old age

Aline Dunbar

Group discussions in nursing education: a learning process

John Wilkinson, Christine Wilkinson

Should relatives be allowed in the resuscitation room?

Patricia Connors

Joint training for mental health key workers: Part 2

Peter May

Defining and implementing a ‘no lifting’ standard

Ruth Dixon, Barbara Lloyd, Susanne Coleman

Joint initiative to share practice developments

Observe closely for transfusion reactions

Ice pops protect against stomatitis

Effect of changed bowel habit; ices in oncology; and transfusion infection

New service

Katy Judd

Matron'sreturn wins stars

Nurse prescribing extended

Managers hit back on pay report

Partial victory for students

Nurses must use research better

Health promotion

Sporting chances

Back in control

Readers panel - auditing god

Jimmy Noak, Sue Hopkins, Roger Cowell, Moyra Baldwin

Get Smart

Elaine Schurch

Lowest ebb

Len Jones

Profit share

Cris Allen

Better and worse

Sandy Macara

Tread carefully

Tom Sandford

Sidelines

Moral maze for nurses

Pat Healy

Measles lessons learned

Graham Scott

Our clients have the right to choose

Don't undermine UNICEF initiative

Celia Shore

Misinterpretation of baby friendly

Denise Chaffer

External pressures halt breastfeeding

Elizabeth Gould

Cruelty to non- breastfed babies

Claire Rayner

Put care of patients at centre of NHS

leuan Wyn Jones

No more sexist images

Claire Turner

Student nurses treated badly

Amy Simpson Southampton

Uncaring attitude to back injury

Jennifer Harrod Suffolk

News in brief

'Bounty money' given by trusts condemned

Black midwives being bullied

Midwives' leader in new attack on UKCC

Kate Williams

News

Nurse suspended over patient coma at troubled hospital

Cutbacks force staff to re-apply for their jobs

Nurse managers' pay set for major review

Pat Healy

On the move

Black children miss treatment for asthma

News

Health department officials ready to report on mental health services

BMA supports nurses who perform surgery

Pat Healy

More measles jabs promised by government

News

RCN set to offer election support

Damages plan is postponed

Hancock slams ‘total failure’ of local pay

Dorrell student plans may be scuppered

Pat Healy

RCM general secretary quits two years early

Baby friendly leader agrees to review feeding guidance

Kate Williams

Editorial

Norah Casey