Listings

Saunders review for NCLEX-RN

Lorenzo Visentin

Quality Assurance: An Introduction for Health Care Professionals

Jan Morrison

The absolution game

Daniel Allen

American kids’ camp nursing

Juliet Baker

The history of health scams

Rosemary Cook

Training-and-development

Steve Wright, Frank Ashton

Cracking the Code

Tony Gillam

Value for money nursing

Lin Lamdin

Alternatives to bad nursing

Karen Rose

Mentor be a role model?

Joseph Winters

Points of view

Susan Allen

Information exchange

An ‘ageist’ comes to terms with his views

David Barrett

Patients’ rights do not include racist choices

Malcolm Snell

Letter

Pat Smith

Basic interactions do not need analysis

Jackie Ellinger

Sex abuse of elderly must be recognised

Malcolm Holt

Surrendering to the merge of education

James A Newton

Objective assessment of muscle function

Jackie Oldham, Ray Tallis, Tracey Howe, Gavin Smith, Tim Petterson

The cost of care: an American experience

Ann Marie Brooks

The named nurse: effects on practice

Rheumatoid arthritis in pregnancy

Aileen Richardson

A toothless tiger?

Naish John

News feature developing countries

O'Sullivan Enda

Bringing relief to the streets

Barbara Battista

Opening the door to improvements?

Effective prevention of vomiting after cisplatin

Unleaded petrol gives athletes more milage

New Tumour risk high after first skin cancer

Colitis risk following NSAID treat

Osteoporosis linked to suppression of protein

Early use of penicillin in meningococcal disease

More schizophrenia in urban-raised adults

Traditional uniforms do not offer best protection

News In brief

Parliament

News in brief

Saudi Arabia

RCN child protection group launched

Jackie O‘Byrne

Mental health, midwifery NDU bids successful

Call for separate Midwives’ Act is rejected

College refuses to accept admission of HCAs

Demand for extra cash to meet white paper’s targets

Education and research plans are announced

Minister urges midwives to speak on local issues

Call to rid NHS of all gagging clauses

‘Attitude gap’ divides the government and midwives

Daniel Allen

Older people

Nursing unions oppose job evaluation scheme

Nurses block weekend hospital closure

Day case treatments rise by one third

News in brief

Guidelines seek to limit intubation of dead bodies

RCN aims for a smoke-free generation of nurses

‘Patient focused’ means ‘task focused’ warns RCN

News in brief

Nursing students ‘trained to sign on’

Royal London hospital trust

Safeguards to regulate GP fundholders

Massive spending cuts likely to hit recruitment

Royal college of nursing

UKCC disappointed with government costing plan

Skill mix reviews ‘are used to cut costs’

Derek Hand

You get what you pay for

Linda Thomas