Footnotes

David Newnham

Acting to help your career

Pat Hughes

Listings

Learning disability nursing

Rosemary Tidby

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Meeting the nutritional needs of people with mental health problems

Alison Sullivan, Rick Tucker

Patient individuality in the breast clinic

Obesity management

Norma Crombie

Measuring services: a district nursing dependency tool

Sarah Freeman, Gill Shelley, Mari Gay, Beverley Ingram

Critical pathways: an efficient way to manage care

Liz Herring

Do respiratory patients receive adequate analgesia?

Elizabeth Gray

Nurses and PAMs in innovative roles: job satisfaction and its contributing factors

Karen Collins

Obituary Veronica Lott MBE

Laurence Dopson

No more good old days for the returners

Sue Ferguson

Know what you are getting before you part with your cash

Lesley Radley

Requirements to stay on the nursing register

Points on community children's nursing

Anna Sidey

Warning to the hard-working: holidays are not good for you

Peter Antonious

Letter

C J English

Nursing homes stay shut to all but those at death’s door

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

Sheila Quinn

Advanced Precautions for Today's OR: The Operating Room Professional's Handbook for the Prevention of Sharps Injuries and Bloodborne Exposure

Gladys Xavier

Storymaking and creative groupwork with older people

Stephen O'Connor

Ask the experts

Public interest

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Get back to basics

Margaret Brunning

Right on course

Hospice pioneer

Gill Oliver

Protecting the whistle blower

Lynne Wallis

Streets ahead

Alison Moore

Wales to go all-graduate?

Rael Martell

Frame by frame

Nick Lipley

Net profits

Katherine Burke

Factors associated with persistent low back pain

Escherichia coli toxin has anti-cancer potential

Can compression hosiery prevent falls?

Controlling post-operative pain and wound infection

News In brief

Call for shared learning models

Disparity in written work

Theory-practice gap highlighted

Employers are confused by graduate training

Bed shortages are causing delays in psychiatric care

Paul Dinsdale

Junior doctors turn to nurses for help

RCN pleads for extension to nurse prescribing

International network planned

UKCC slammed over titles

Clark launches attack on England’s nursing strategy

PCG attacked for ban on nursing home supplies

Nick Lipley, Rael Martell

Dobson halts checks on overseas staff

Complementary therapies boom

PREP help for agency workers

Staff cut sparks fear over safety

Guidance due on consultant posts

GPs under fire as practice nurse pay deals fall short

Rael Martel, Nick Lipley

West Country braced for eclipse

Nurses win full holiday pay after tribunal ruling

Paul Dinsdale

Tribunal backs working mother

Welcome for childcare plans

The GPs who short-change practice nurses

A model of mental health

Linda Thomas