Listings

End note

Stephen Thomas

Modern management of cardiac failure

Howard Why

The sound revolution

Mark Monaghan

Improving Health and Welfare Work with Families in Poverty

Dave Bolah

Child Studies: The First Year

Maureen Swanwick

Nurses, Computers and Information Technology

Stephen Power

Shopping for systems

Christine Greenhalgh

Powerless to be empowered

Crispin Allen

Home sweet home?

Linda Nazarko

Information exchange

Developments in community nursing

Trisha Holmes

Dynamic situations in private nursing

Bob Garner

Exercising caution on public endorsing

Jane Collinson Brown

Correcting the wrong impression

David Maclsaac

Tired of Sister Susie’s jibes at NVQs

K W Hutchinson

Directives could stop back injuries

Wendy Coffey

An outreach service for adolescents

Gill Savoury, Mary Brophy

Gastric lavage in accident and emergency

Mike Paynter

Lying to patients: can it ever be justified?

Jeannett Martin

Childbearing within the prison system

Juliet Wilson

A poor substitute for life

Barbara Green

Stopping them from starting

Could do better?

No room for beginners

Crisis Medicine

Beneficial effects of ‘overprotection’

Hypertension and birth weight linked to fetal life

Substance abuse part of trauma screening

Inheritance may be a factor in bowel disease

Genetic defect found in heart condition

News clinical

Monitoring unnecessary caesarean births

Emergency services for coronary care

DNs may be failing in assessing patient needs

Suicide: a target for health

Marcus Evans

News

Health needs homelessness

Canada: Alcohol warning issue dodged

Germany: hospital food is ‘unhealthy’

US: Nurse takes seat in Congress

Student quotas are still not established

News in brief

News

Special commemorative service for pioneer in nursing research

170,000 health professionals suffer from mental illness

Daniel Allen

CPNs up by 250 per cent

Mental Health Act review is inadequate, says Labour

Government to back legal changes in drugs licensing

Warning of future catastrophe in NHS

News in brief

New directory lists 2,000 sources of support

Primary health staff squeeze

Judith Podmore

MSF may take in practice nurses

Whitley pay rising above private rates

Midwife-led units win government support

Child care registration rules relaxed

Kale Williams

News in brief

Rise in number of prison nurses

Regions under pressure to answer student job crisis

John Naish

Policymakers leave nurses ‘struggling for identity’

Daniel Allen

Call for ban on tobacco adverts

Prescribing is ‘not priority’ this year

Depression: lifting the cloud

Vicki Usherwood

Verve, vision and vitality

Norah Casey