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Nurse practitioners in primary care

About the UKCC

Stuart Skyte

Assessing continence needs in children

Emma Cook

Helping a family to cope with the effects of Crohn’s disease

Male sexuality and urethral catheterisation: a review of the literature

Frank Milligan

From stigma to strategy

Peter Kaminski, Charles Harty

Comparative effectiveness of two training programmes on assertive behaviour

Linda Holbrook Freeman, Paulette Freeman Adams

The National HIV Nurses’Association

Nursing further North than Birmingham

Deborah Dawson

Address equality, but don't judge it

Barbara Lafrance

Our perception of child abuse is misguided

Hehir Brid

Nurses in Africa need back issues of journals

I am a deaf nurse with special skills to offer

Juliet Alexander

Back on the wards: I will slide, roll or hoist but I will not lift

Jennifer Harrod

Ask the experts

ABC of Transfusion

Alexandra Gray

Principles of marketing education in the NHS

Wendy Boothroyd

A moving lesson in empathy from the survivor’s story

Pratt Robert

Resources

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Beat the bullies - before they beat you

In hindsight

Caroline Bothamley

A body of equals

John Austin

China in her hands

Rosey Grandage

Practice makes perfect

Charlotte Alderman

An international nurse

Laurence Dopson

Peer support for parents

Putting safety first

Adele Waters

Depressed adolescents have problems in adult life

Wound protector prevents post-operative infection

New advice on diet and eczema available

Substitute for insulin on the horizon?

On the move

MMR and bowel disease link dismissed

News

Top nurses welcome new public health specialist role

Heather Stephen

News in brief

Security levels come under spotlight as nurse is stabbed in busy surgical ward

Ministers urged to push through nurse prescribing

Waters Adele

Down's patients 'unhappy' about care

Midwives defend role in breastfeeding promotion

Nick Lipley

Help to stamp out child labour

Nurses' attitudes to mental health

Preparing for war aftermath

Boost to nurses' influence on PCGs

News

RCN to look at ways of ranking hospitals by the quality of nursing care they provide

Waters Adele

Staff deny reports that patients are starving

When your heart wants to remember: person centred dementia care

Jan Dewing

News

Junior doctors back action

Agency announces £500 millennium pay

Give up on nurse prescribing after all this time? no way

A little acorn of a job

Linda Thomas