Listings

Learning disability: empowerment

Jamie Shepheard

The role of nurses in intravenous cannulation

Sarah R Davies

Eating matters - improving dietary care in hospitals

Senga Bond

RCN Nursing Update with BBC Learning Zone

Gill Brown

Good Practice Check List

Net profit

Jane Farmer, Amanda Richardson

Soundbites

Nurses can stop preoperative smoking

Brain blood flow predicts seizures

Using pulse oximetry in coronary care

Mergers may harm careers

John Humphreys

Community health care development

Our voice in Europe

Putting the experts in charge

Daniel Allen

Silence is golden

Open debates

Reg Pyne

Wise counsel

Stephen Regel, Senior Lecturer

Natural born healers

Craig Brown

Sidelines

New Labour, new strategy

Yvonne Moores

It's healthy to talk

Buzz Stokes

Purely medicinal

Jack Shamash

Network

Linda Walker

Network

C Simcoe, B Barnwell

Network

Sarah Hoskin

Network

Calling all green fingered nurses

Ronald Strank

Internet access may be the best answer

Bobbie Noble-McDonald, Rosemary Smith

UKCC must not get stuck in the past

Anne Price

Christmas breakfast with strings attached

Pay mature entrants more

RH Keys

MP needs to visit more nursing homes

Sandra Brookes

White Paper shows the way forward

Ghislaine Young

News in brief

News

Investigation over elderly deaths

The future for nursing in New Labours NHS

Jack Shamash

Nursing is not a laughing matter

News

Sick staff cost over £ 1 million a year

Buzz Stokes

On the move

New ICU beds still dosed

Buzz Stokes

More non-nurses would better protect public

Concentrate on clinical education, boards told

RCN welcomes fraud clampdown

UKCC comes under fire

Also in the report..

Streamline the register

Report receives guarded welcome

Review proposes big changes to legislation

Measuring quality of life in the evaluation of health care

Sophie Staniszewska

Can we effectively use networks (telematics) to deliver distance education to enhance patient care?

Peter J. Murray

Editorial

Linda Thomas