Assignment writing skills

Geraldine Clay

Implementing a critical care course for ward nurses

Bernadette O’Riordan, Kate Gray, Fiona McArthur-Rouse

Bringing health care to schools

Stephen Peckham, Cindy Carlson

More to being a nurse than window dressing

Megan Edwards

Behaviour, not clothes, makes the professional

Andrew Sargent

Vaccination responsibility passes to practice nurses

Bed baths represent an important opportunity

Debra Fear

Night nurse practitioner role already exists

Vanessa Wright

Letter

Is my night shift pay going to be cut under new deal?

Denise Morris

Too menial for doctors?

Mary Donovan

Do you get that sinking feeling?

Lesley Marshallsay

The Autonomous Patient – Ending Paternalism in Medical Care

Elizabeth Kent

Challenging Cancer From Chaos to Control

Gill Oliver

Shared experiences of cancer

Gill Oliver

The Autonomous Patient – Ending Paternalism in Medical Care

Elizabeth Kent

The best of the week’s health-related TV and Radio

Margaret Paul

Outside in

David Newnham

Research Notes

Richard Wilson

Poor relations

Alex McClimens

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Initial reactions

Jane Bates

Good grief

Cheryl Manley

Ask the experts

‘ Last year, more people died through suicide than as a result of traffic accidents. Some of them were nurses ’

Linda Thomas

All together on hygiene

Clare Morrell

Readers panel - Double trouble

Graham Houghton, Carol Singleton, Sue Orr, Shonagh Musgrove

Starting out

Matt O’Connor

Keeping it real

June Andrews

Murder in mind

Lynne Pearce

Home and away

Mary Hampshire

Minority report

Lynne Wallis

Examples of how job evaluation will work in practice using some of the 16 factors

Fitting the profile

Colin Parish

Burden of proof

Christian Duffin

Study through the web proved effective for nurses

Triage in primary care leads to busier routine surgeries

Role of sedation in weaning children off ventilators

Pravastatin is effective and safe for older people

Smallpox vaccination in States

Nurses press for defined skill mix ratios in trusts

Christian Duffin

TV airing for MS

News in brief

Database to help foreign nurses

Welsh smoking ban fails to win nurse’s blessing

Pension hope for unwed couples

Too many NHS targets are ‘bullying’ staff, MPs told

Christian Duffin

Abuse is rife in mental health, says service user

Colin Parish

Let the picture tell the story

On the move

NMC sets out new incompetence rules

Child protection role needed in every trust

Hospital jobs are safe... for now

Tuition fee hike threatens healthcare recruitment

Christian Duffin

Review body on standby

Early implementer NHS trusts

Pilot will start late

Four new bands replace grades

Agenda for Change details revealed

Colin Parish, Adele Waters

Extra concession for midwives

How the supplements will apply

Core hours changed to encourage night work

Colin Parish

Poster plugs pay promise

Surveys reveal the keys to job satisfaction

A third of nurses to earn£30,000 a year by 2005

Colin Parish, Adele Waters

Health visitors at top of bands

Practice nurses to choose NHS or GP bosses

Why are people from ethnic minorities left out?

Finally, the whole pay deal

Jean Gray