Tougher than predicted

Taking issues

Another year and another Congress

Back to learn

Making them an offer

Open market

Derek Dean

The event

The quest for quality

The courage to debate

Hazel Platzer

Missing the point of care

S E Jones

Class of 1960 reunion

D A Sargent

Striking a balance

Shirley Bach

NAWCH supplement

Pauline Sheffield

Trying to get back in

B Lloyd

Violence - all part of the job?

Tina Jones

Counselling adolescents

Mike Owen

Birth of a Nursing Development Unit

Kim Manley

The use and mis-use of paediatric casualty

Morag Farquhar

Targets for action: enhancing care

Susan Scott

Aggressive treatment and the elderly

Brian Booth

Nursing models as philosophies of care

Betty Kershaw, Betty Kershaw

Chemotherapy and patient information

Carole Davis

P2000 anger

Execution dashes hopes

Education for primary nursing

Barbie Vaughan

Banking on success?

Creating a climate for the development of nursing

Adrian Ashurst, Dawn Clarke, Anne Evitts, Joan Lacey, Tim Snashall

Single-mindedness and sincerity

Fracture risk in spondylitis

Education aids catheter users

Quality of life and erythropoietin

Dizziness a marker for stroke

Device to assist resuscitation

Older women’s babies ‘are just as healthy’

Leg ulcer video looks at treatment and care

Drug-delivery technique targets tumour sites

The way back

Alison Bentley

Spain Mozambique

Ethiopia

World news

Parliament

News In brief

News in brief

Training is necessary for transfers between health and social services

Victims of torture

EN training set to stop in 1992

News in brief

Health records bill gets commons second reading

Proposal to exempt nurses from repayments

No smoking day

RCN calls for inquiry into hearing cover-up

Commons committee echoes ‘ringfencing’ calls

News

Concern over roles under new GP contract

Bill rushed through after government defeat

Major drive against sexism in NHS

Protocols for clinical trials

Patricia Crawford

Assessing wounds and selecting dressings

Carol Dealey

Leg ulcers: a study in the community

Rosemary Nicholls

Ever decreasing levels

Hancock Christine

Shaping up to the future

Plugging the gap

Vera Stanford

The energy crisis of change

David Stevenson

Writing and using standards of nursing care

Karen Arnold, Stephen Wright, Karen Arnold, Stephen Wright

Implementing a philosophy of care on a children’s ward using action research

Christopher Johns, Susan Kingston

Packing your open mind

The pain of being a mother

Norah Casey

Editorial

Karen Waters