Footnotes

Questions of confidence

Linda Nazarko

Abuse alert

Chris Middleton

The tissue viability society

Diabetic foot ulcers

Michael Edmonds, Sally Wilson, Ali Foster

The implementation of clinical practice guidelines for venous leg ulcers

Aciare Morrell, Hui Liao MBchb, Gill Harvey

Pressure ulcers - prevention and treatment guidelines

Lyn Phillips

The management of leg ulcers in a patient with B cell cutaneous lymphoma

Janice Bianchi

Care of the patient with dementia

Guidelines for administering blood and blood components

Sandra Gray, Michael Murphy

A language for nursing: furthering the debate

Paul Crawford, Brian Brown

Patients’ perceptions of bedside handover

Catherine Greaves

Professional facilitation

Greta Thornbory

Marjorie Gardener OBE

Laurence Dopson

Unison does not want an end to supernumeraries

Paul Chapman

Picture-perfect nurse is an inspiration to profession

June Gooch Kent

No sympathy for student nurses' complaints

Teresa Burgess

Guidelines on working over the millennium

Liam Williams

We are snowed under with pieces of paper

David Salvage Plymouth

Internal rotation is false economy

Frances Wheatley Dorset

Time machine

Audrey Given

Bouncing back

Lynn Wallis

Dreaming spires— not here

Tony Butterworth

Break for freedom

Elizabeth Scott

Going up in smoke

Shams Uddin

Calling in a new bank manager

James Buchan

Standard life - The cloak of privacy hides a shocking rate of domestic violence

Daniel Allen

Silent minority

Anne Manchester

NICE work for nursing

Homing instinct

Back on track

Rael Martell

Role of infection in early myocardial infarction

Taking ecstasy while pregnant may cause congenital defects

Brain damage might leave older people open to fraud

Children capable of using automatic defibrillators

On the move

Owners demand funding for improvements to properties

Staffing homes

Care homes fail to meet standards

Government set to reject level guidelines for nursing

Nick Lipley

News in brief

Surprise appointment of Sinn Fein member

Adele Waters

Twenty nurses face fraud probe

Nurses criticised for 'chit-chat

Complacency could lead to surge in HIV infection

Dinsdale Paul

Improving accident logs

Oxfordshire hospitals to go

Care Standards Bill announced

Government to clear up long-term care confusion

Lipley Nick

A celebration of the millennium's nurses

Cancer nurses to fine-tune criteria for faster referrals

Waters Adele

RCN Institute defends high drop-out rates

Touch and go

UKCC to discuss organ removal procedures

Make time to understand nursing academics

Reap what you sow

Linda Thomas