The microbe file

Fatima Mayet, Barry Walsh

Professional identity

Roger Merchant

Dress sense

Alice Walsh

Uniform distress

Maura McNally

Grandad goes to hospital

Kate Phillips

Training for a change

Tony Thompson

Drug use and abuse

Doreen Huddart

Cholesterol and Children

Diana Fowler

The Allergy Handbook

Margot Lindsay

Organising professionally

Paul Moorbath

Why all the fuss?

Fiction file

Queen Elizabeth reunion plans

Margaret Lane

Forgetting community staff

Jean Cubbin

Elderly population study

S Marsden

Leukaemia support group

Sue Harland

Regrading: the other side

Training for the theatre

S Wheatly

Defining the ‘proper’ nurse

Rachelle Barber

Missing the point about categories

Elizabeth M Sharp

Joining the team

Vi Wagner

School nursing and standards of care

Mark Jones

Help from the RCN

Vi Wagner

Failure to fail: the teacher’s dilemma

Annette Lankshear

The reflective practitioner - is help at hand?

Justus A Akinsanya

Quality assurance - a positive approach

Jo Slater, Karen Evans

The group dynamic experience: building relationships

Melanie Atkinson

A two way process

Stress management - 'the group approach’

D Tyler Marion

A stage-managed award

The white paper and nursing

Sheila Roy

Regular health check ups questioned

Reducing the risk of spontaneous abortions

Discharging elderly patients from hospital

Doubts about efficacy of antibiotic

Caffeine and conception

Ames improves its glucometer workstation

Nursing memories

RCN Congress

Indemnity insurance

Teaching values

New silicone-coated dressing launched

News in brief

Parliament

Open-learning package

Warning of chaos over input groups

Pyne stresses registration checks

Call for 'Voluntary accreditation’

Review threat to children’s needs

Fees appeal fails but leads to UKCC review

Service consultation set to continue

College to adopt business strategy

Police warn nurses about armed attacker

Scottish plans approved

Joint initiative for American recruitment

Day of action ‘a stunning success’, unions claim

Cuts in services likely after funding shortfall

Pay body attacks Health Department

Anger greets staggered pay awards

Julie Sylvester

Staggering half truths

Norah Casey

Adapting to the 1990s

Brenda Poulton

Safeguarding standards

Part of the union

Sally Gooch

Prescribing powers

Getting the service

Reorganising roles

Rod Thomson

School nursing benefits

Valerie Dodds

Promoting children’s health

Mary Abraham

Is there a future for community nursing?

Christine Hancock