Footnotes

Newnham David

Making a come-back

Monday Ugiagbe

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Autonomy and the nurse practitioner

Cherry Cullen

The role of the nurse practitioner

Beverley Le-Mon

Management of peripheral intravenous therapy

Promoting women’s health

Rosemary Cook

Attempting to set up a randomised controlled trial

Lorraine Ellis, Sue Davies, Sara Laker

Cancer nursing education

Gill Hek, Helen Langton, Gillian Blunden

Criminals deserve equal access to health care

Sue Haworth

Welsh assembly won’t define nursing

Nick Davies

I can't wait to get going on my nurse training

Rebekah Roberts

Letter

Stephen Weeks

Letter

Janet Ronald

No amount of pay could compensate for stress

Julie Batty

Letter

Mike O'Boyle

Can we afford to squabble over the colour of tights?

A book's strength can also prove to be its weakness

Byron Lee

Peer Review in the Health Sciences

Jan Savage

Sit back and enjoy

Margaret Paul

A rapid response

Andrew Koh

Standard life

Daniel Allen

On the couch..

Brendan McMahon

Danger signals

Barry Hill

Action stations

Debbie Murdock

Custody battle

Alison Moore

Breathing space

Guilty by association

Rael Martell

Pressure guage

Nick Lipley

Injecting neurotrophic agents makes nerves grow

Solution to constipating effects of opioids

HRT reduces the sensitivity of mammogram screening

Fluoride in tap water poses no major risk to bones

News In brief

Be grateful for small mercis

Minimum standards to protect overseas nurses

Rael Martell

'Horrendous' task for agency staff

Trusts told to cut back on use of temporary nurses

Kay Smith

On the Move

News

Tips for success in teamworking

Unify healthcare education

New approach benefits patients

Nurses and doctors must collaborate on better care

Paul Dinsdale

'Shocking’ abuse prompts call for tighter regulation

Nick Lipley

Profoundly deaf trainees sought

News

News in brief

Scope proves a success

Ministers admit bed shortage

Consultant nurses are no 'modern matrons'

Nurse-led elderly care wards to free acute beds

Nick Lipley

Managers ’hid’ patients from snap-shot survey

Nick Lipley

Pay award will not help retention

Calls for repeal of Clause 28

Parity for nurses on PCT boards

NPs out in the cold?

Anne Baird

Prescribing the right standards

Bernice Baker

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Stating the obvious

Thomas Linda