Conference capers

Patti Sheeks

I nurse therefore...

Brian Kay

The inner light

Charlotte Allen

In and out of nursing

Peter J Mackie

Smile please

Give us credit

Alison Joy

A force for change

Watch your language

Sheila Livingstone

Points of view

Linda Beggs

Oops

The same old threat

Storey Les

Helping student nurses

Langford jinny

Clues across

Pillory to post code

L Eddowes, J E Oldman

Sinking heart

Terry Galligan

War preparation is essential

Jan O'Leary

‘The age of unreason’ and the charge nurse

Roswyn Brown

The nurse as a consultant

Stephen Wright, Michael Johnson, Elsie Purdy

Primary nursing: Accountability is the key to its mystery

lain Graham

Listings

Attitudes to clients with mental handicap

Norma Raynes, Catherine Pettipher, Alan Shiell, Ken Wright

Making nursing models relevant for the practising nurse

Louise Selanders, Mildred Dietz-Omar

Asthma on the line

Staging the award

Training for health care assistants

Neil Headford

An investigation of occupational stress among nurse tutors

Martin Bamber

Exerting undue influence

Ann Young

Responding to resource management

Philip Munson

Task allocation: A case of resistance to change?

Jane Merchant

New treatment strategy benefits liver cancer

‘Real increase’ in renal arteritis

Heparin versus saline in infusion patency

CPR learning not affected by anxiety

Treating congenital dislocation of the hip

More research ‘could save accident victims’

Test for albumin may detect kidney failure

Psychological therapies ‘are inadequate’

Postnatal rise in mental illness, but not suicide

News in brief

News

News

News

Parliament

Coalition discourages breast-milk substitutes

Scientific approach for cancer care

Sign language training for Glasgow nurses

Government is ‘running scared’

Lack of income support distresses elderly patients

Nurses win special leave for family care

RCN demands priority for flexible conversion

News

Low secondment patterns cause concern

News in brief

UK fails on child rights

News

Nurses tell of bomb threats in Saudi

Rally of support for Pink

Nurses must recover their ‘moral frameworks’

Cutbacks

Limited prescribing Bill launched in Parliament

News

Commons report claims staff levels are too high

‘Astonishing arrogance’ angers nursing unions

Jackie O’Byrne

Government accused of backtracking over costs

Staff and cash cuts blamed for cancellations

The management of change on a Nursing Development Unit

Joanne Booth, Cath Davies

A survey of the nutritional adequacy of meals served and eaten by patients

Sheila Simon

On these rocks... commitment to nurse education in the 1990s

June Clark

It's competition time

John Naish

Speak your mind

Roz Osborne

The real value of people

Norah Casey

Editorial

David Thompson