Listings

Home truths

Ruth Okunowo

Ergonomics and back pain

Nigel Corlett

Linking backcare and safe handling

Rosemary Pearce

Patient handling - let’s get it right!

Brenda Wright

Back pain and charity

VI Gillman

Emergency Nursing Review

Sue Clark

Langman’s medical embryology

Ruth Berts

The emotional labour of nursing

Margaret Andrews

Little shock of horrors

Gareth James

Fighting hearsay is heresy

Barry Clifton

Bum notes and old records

Rosemary Cook

A united stand on global issues

Linda Head

A positive policy of welcoming criticism

Maggi Ross, Grove Elm

Wing welcomes part-time officer

Peggy Pryer

The medical need to be cruel to be kind

B Gilchrist, JF Tucker

A second class point of view

Helen Carter

Defining the nurse’s role in outpatients

Susan Scott

Hygienic hand decontamination

Dinah Gould

Making the case for good nursing care

Mental illness: support for relatives

Celia Carson, Amy Manchershaw

Helping midwives in developing countries

Gaynor Maclean

New kids on the block

Turn your radio on

Lesley Williams

The will to learn

Infective cause of abdominal pain?

Higher HIV rates in South European women

Lactobacilli identified as an emerging pathogen

Treating rejection after heart transplant

Frequency of glove perforation in A&E

Anxiety means children are not being immunised

Breastfeeding initiatives pointless say researchers

Papillomavirus the key to cervical detection

News in brief

News in Brief

Austria

United States

World news

News in brief

RCM claims success in preventing bottle risk

Asthma

News

Plan to end segregation of sexes a ‘key objective’

Green care

Diluted skill mix can lead to surgical deaths

News

News in brief

Celebration of nurses’ qualities and skills

Nurses may be involved in unethical research

Health Visitors’ Association to ballot on review

News

Nominations invited for RCN Fellowship awards

Sacked midwife reinstated with final warning

Radcliffe gets Charter demonstration site

Health visitors’ association

Mixed reaction to ‘lifting’ of ban

Hancock highlights nurses’ low morale

Community nurses fear elderly being forced out

Mixed response for Bottomley speech

Her own woman

Norah Casey