Listings

Leg ulcer assessment by doppler ultrasound

Colin Hislop

Wedding rings and hospital- acquired infection

Elizabeth Bernthal

Management of systemic lupus erythematosus: part 1

Penny Crofts, David D'Cruz

Defining the role of assessors, mentors and supervisors: part 2

Mary Neary

Nerve stimulation for low back pain - a review

Gordon Gadsby, Michael Flowerdew

Fruit and vegetables act against cancer

Transporting viruses for lab culture

Do-it-yourself diabetes screening

Emergency IT

Rewind

The nurse manager's survival guide: practice answers to everyday problems, second edition

Supportive models

Alison Moore

Under the spotlight

Sandra Smart, Jean Curry, Joan Snelling

Heartstart's arresting success

Queue busters

Kathy Carrington

Readers panel - Fallen angels

Wicce St Clair Hawkins, Fo Ettinger, Chris Bassett

People not paper

John Turnbull

I hate Martin Platt

Mike Lehane

Beds not bombs

Lesley Morrison

Sidelines

The future of nurse education

John Osborne

Assistant or abuse?

Dina Leifer

Nursing's big challenge

Adele Waters

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Graham Bees, Rosie Salzman, L Jones, J Wootten, Linda Hall, Julie Cosgrove, Linda Reid-Jones, Wendy Colder

BBC TV's Video Nation wants nurses

Sue Belton

Do single forums get best deal?

Alan Bull

Brookside approach beggars belief

Obituary

GPs lack consensus on opioid use

Don Aston Shirley

We need to restore comparability

KD Ashton

Teenage sex education is a parental responsibility

Fiona McLeod

New paediatric units to be led by nurses

Dina Leifer

Role of theatre staff studied

Sexual help policy drawn up in Canada

Proposal for practice nurse agency

News

History made as nurse joins select committee

Nurses pressured to inform on workers

Nurses speak out on Ireland

On the move

News in brief

Focus on quality of care in league tables

Graham Scott

'Hello nurses' will be abolished

Murder case nurses could get five years

More nurses struck off

Dina Leifer, Adele Waters

News

Langlands vetoes generic workers

Government should decide on rationing

Election for the UKCC gets underway

...as they claim patients are at risk news summary

Nurses one step away from ballot on industrial action...

Adele Waters

What is the UKCC?

Christine Chapman, Anne Kelly, Maureen Magowan, Alison Norman

UKCC election

Editorial