Footnotes

Listings

Your input is what counts

David Lane

A right to quality of life

Lawrence Abrams

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The importance of mouth care in preventing infection

Gladys Xavier

Nursing the child with gastroenteritis

Computerised databases in infection control

Sarah Ormond-Walshe

Assessment and learning in post-registration nurse education

Julie Santy, Carolyn Mackintosh

Distance learning for post-registered nursing: the facts

Linda Chapman

The policy context

Ann McMahon, Dave O'Carroll, Paula Robinson

Give working parents a chance to do the job

Caroline Stephens

They just go clubbing - don’t they?

Paul Canning

An age divide between students is pointless

Lucy Reynolds

Some managers are simply not 'fit for practice'

Mike Travis

We must encourage employers to recognise previous training

Paul Hateley

Be realistic about elderly care placements

P Farmer

Eradicate avoidable blindness by 2020

Sue Stevens

Caring for People with HIV, A Community Perspective

Robert J Pratt

Complications in the Intensive Care Unit

Timothy Collins

Focusing on a vision of health for the new century

David C Benton

Leaving the dark ages

Viv Semmens

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Protecting the vulnerable

Alex McMahon

Where do the hours go

Jim Buchan

Blood lines

Meena Pathak

Making the beds

Caroline White

Doube helping

Catherine Sadler

Millennium bug

Nick Lipley

Rewarding experience

Adele Waters

Reduced disability with new treatment for stroke

Celecoxib effective and better tolerated than diclofenac

Most parents want to stay with their child during procedures

‘Comet assay’ for sensitivity to radiotherapy treatment

News in brief

News

Recruitment figures show campaign has paid off

Graham Scott

More midwives on the way

'Nice' department fails in funding scramble

Primary care trusts put paediatric nursing at risk

Nick Lipley

Senior staff needed in A&E

News

No minister, the NHS isn't coping

News in brief

Planning for next winter has to start now, government is warned

Adele Waters

RCM rejects ban on fathers in delivery suite

Phone lines ease winter crisis

Labour’s plans attacked

Award should be part of long-term plan, says RCN

Midwives miss out on 'golden opportunity'

Nurses’ pay set to rise by at least 3.4 per cent

Graham Scott

‘The NHS is dealing with flu, not coping with it'

Good news, but just a start

Jean Gray