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Clinical Practice And Management Essay Winners

Judging the winners

Maureen Lahiff

Gossip

The empirical new clothes

Jane Warner

The ultimate notepad

Philip Burnard

Overpowering empowerment

Barry Clifton

Ethics

Kevin Kendrick

Teaching Students in Clinical Settings

K A Jocelyn

Change Management

Linda Applin

Auxiliaries fail to seethe funny side

Bridgitte Richards

Information exchange

Sick, tired and losing patience with bullies

With thanks for a wonderful weekend

Vivienne Taylor

Contemplation could be cost-effective

Els van Ooijen

Keep up the pressure, back the campaign

Jan Frazer

Care is not free, nor are rights forfeit

Maureen Goode

Is my diploma now rendered useless?

TD Limb Doncaster

Working with the stories nurses tell

Gavin Fairbairn, Donna Mead

Student evaluations of nurse teachers

Margaret Dobson

Securing methods for peripheral cannulae

Joan Livesley, Sally Richardson

Seclusion practice in psychiatric nursing

Matthew Wilson

Can the future turn out bright in the end? this reader's tale shows the bitter legacy of redundancy can be beaten by a positive attitude

The human cost

The good employers’ pledge

John Humphreys

Footing the bill

A place of extremes

Alan Jabez

Treating RSV in the immunocompromised

Asthma inhalers give unreliable dose

Cholesterol lower in chronic hepatitis B

Enhancing quality of life in bowel disease

Exercise and calcium for teens and twenties

Pets able to detect epileptic seizures?

Warning over effects of maternal alcohol abuse

Revised thresholds for hypertension treatment

Lower age limit for cervical screening

World news

Specialist nurses left feeling undervalued

Survey shows that asthma is stifling children’s lifestyles

News

Hit-and-run nurse is recovering

MMR vaccine programme suspended

News in brief

Failure to inform mothers on risk reduction revealed

Men need ‘formal invitation’ to take care of their health

News

Battle with GPs, says RCN

Unacceptable work conditions for PNs

Judith Podmore

Older people face poor levels of care

Daniel Allen

National survey for mental illness

News

Merger means anxiety for tutors

Nurse wins £30,000 for religious discrimination

News in brief

News

350 new community posts called a ‘drop in the ocean’

Daniel Allen

NI unions warn cuts will cause misery

Hospitals should be run by the private sector

Project 2000: the wrong sort of preparation for the future of nursing?

News

Do real nurses work in theatres?

Norah Casey