The use of intravenous therapy

Helen Hand

PICC securement: minimising potential complications

Janice Gabriel

Reflective practice in thermoregulatory nursing care

Claire Marks

A rationale for oral care

Gaynor Evans

Why doesn’t experience count?

Eve Sinclair

We need guidelines on abuse in nursing homes

Jan Langham

Conference on cancer brought nurses together

Barbara Walters

Managers are willing to be flexible if you are too

Bowman Marian

Not all bad attitudes to mental health problems

V Cook, Milton Keynes

Age discrimination lurks in student bursary awards

Paul Denny

Practitioner-client Relationships and The Prevention of Abuse A UKCC teaching pack

Gary Jones

Put your heads together

Philip Woodrow

What's on: the best of the week's health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

From the heart

Polak

The only nurse on the team

Kate Jones

Support service

Susan Thompson

Inspiring change

Jennifer Percival

outside in

David Newnham

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Is nursing bad for you?

Pamela Truman, Chris Mayer, Sue Orr

Age-old practices

Pauline Ford

Success story

Charlotte Alderman

Going dutch

Tony Leslie

Nurse Amanda Pinkney claims that after three failed attempts at whistleblowing, she sacrificed her career. She tells her story to Charlotte Alderman

Behind the news

Colin Parish

Family

Christian Duffin

Computer-generated letters increase smoking cessation

Defibrillator paddles often placed in wrong position

Injected stem cells could solve continence problems

Antioxidant vitamins might prevent pre-eclampsia

News in brief

Mixed response to cancer plans

New roles demand more training

Nurse-led service slashes wait for GP appointment

Paul Dinsdale

Rewrite proposals for new nursing council, says RCN

Colin Parish, Bill Doult

Wales to consider PFI concerns

On the Move

RCN election

News In brief

PALS could disempower nurses

Once in a lifetime

Labour initiatives sapping power, not giving it to staff

Meditation unlocks prison health

Police training boosts zero tolerance results

Clinicians should pay more attention to drug side effects

Paul Dinsdale

Call for guidelines on resuscitation of dementia patients

CHI ideally placed to tackle racism

Caines admits skill mix mistake

Trust cancels one-midwife scheme

Nurses and midwives to bid for 21 per cent rise

Colin Parish

Model setting for students

...but doctors in south call for help

Practice nurses can’t take our place, complain GPs...

Adele Waters, Colin Parish

A&E staff can combat crime

Anger over subsidy cut

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Shifting boundaries

Gray Jean