The Microbe file

Fatima Mayet, Barry Walsh

Defeating phobias in the community

Rosemary Tidby

Learning from history

Brian Kay

Project 2000: policy and possibilities

Thompson

Focus on mental handicap nursing

Alan Parrish

Managing the risk

John Finch

Caring for the consumer

James Buchan

For practice and patient

Ethel Buckles

Essentials of Rheumatology, 2nd edition

Chris Eberbardie

Alcohol Education

The Nightingale School Computer Assisted Learning Project

The support worker - the way forward for the 1990s

Derek Dean

Nursing a sexist problem

Barry Clifton

Nursing memories

Sharing experience

Rosemary Morris

Fiction file

Cautionary tale

Jan Maycock

The power of the people

David Harding-Price

Legal contracts

Clive Daniels

Speaking up for the animals

S McFarlane

Learning to care for the spirit

Philip Burnard

Health and homelessness

Annette Furley

Psychodynamic models in relationships

Steve Buller

Accountability in nursing practice

Phil McSweeney

Gastrointestinal endoscopy - clinical practice

Pat Bottrill

Listings

Setting standards of compassion

Wilma Addison

Battling for peace

Vaccinating against cholera

Psychological response in breast cancer

Fatal pulmonary embolism rate

Predicting disease severity in pancreatitis

Preventing postoperative sepsis

Equipment washer

New contraceptive for women by 1991

Study to trace Noonan’s gene underway in UK

Earlier treatment needed for asthmatics

Last quarter decline in AIDS cases for ’89

Head lice remedies losing potency

Screening over 65s could cut death rate

Breakthrough could ease life for diabetics

News

World news

Parliament

Aid for heavy, single handed lifting

News in brief

Nurse awarded education honour

RCN warns Clarke about standards

Pioneering psychiatric unit opens

Kidnap could shake confidence in HVs

TV focus for ‘Return to nursing’

News in brief

News

Closure threat to unique psychotherapy hospital

Rosy figures ‘paint a false picture’

Nursing organisation lays blame for problems firmly on the Government

Row at Guy’s leads to freezing of appeals

RCN initiates attack on racism

College denies boycott threat

Call for action on training chaos

Concerns mount for patient care

Paradox of recruitment and the dole

What did you do at work today?

Norah Casey