Coaching and mentoring

Helen Fields, Helen Fields

Bert’s package

David Fine

Monitoring mentoring

Gae Eddison

Mother russia

No smoke, no fire

Christopher Goodall

Banking your assets

Elizabeth Melville

Gossip

Viewpoint one minute wisdom

Verity Pink

Spend, spend, spent

Stephen Weeks

Information exchange

Therapeutic touch: the debate goes on

Michael Stanwick, Stephanie Stanwick

Nurses’ needs ignored in study day scam

Eileen Beech, Helen

Axed nurse gets little support

Mary Powell

Angry and hard up - a student’s lot

Lisa McClintock

Letter

Julia Cambitzi

...but condemned by others

David McKenna, Louise Shorley

Hay bailed out by student support..

An educational support group

Brian Bailey, Anne Claveirole, Caroline Mackenzie, Maureen Wright

Infection control in high-risk environments

Dinah Gould

Continence advisers’ role in education

Penny Rhodes

Privacy of clients: tags and television

Women in the Union

Phylip Pritchard

Primary movers

Brian Dolan

An agenda for nurse leaders

Decriminalising drugs

Steve Wright, Antony Sheehan

Fluid balance during hysteroscopic surgery

Alternative to liver transplant in children?

Short antibiotic courses save money

Pollution and hay fever link questioned

Women ‘should be screened for incontinence’

Study reveals failure in identification of women at risk from alcohol abuse

Hospital staff lack nutritional skills

Reviewing the Agenda

Congress Agenda at a glance

The history of the RCN congress

Susan McGann

Exhibitor list/stand no

Sleepless in London

Brian French

A year to be proud of

Blowing your own trumpet

Judith Hunter

Nursing around the world

June Clark

Editorial

Norah Casey

Parliament

Bin Douti

Firm appointments aim in Patients Charter

Stress blamed for absenteeism

Graham Scott

Patients divided over first name terms

Teachers unclear about their Project 2000 clinical status

Nurses confused over role of HCAs

Hospice nurses with support less likely to use ‘blocking’

Sister role no substitute for team spirit

Research still dominated by doctors

The year that was

News in brief

ENB members back chief executive

News

Plans to cut 13,000 beds in Scotland

Unions alarmed at ‘ageism’ in health service treatment

Rosemary Corless

RCN subscription rates should be linked to inflation

Hancock Christine

Extra £1.6 billion should finance pay award, says RCN

Opposition to all-graduate recruitment expected as RCN considers education issues

Confusion over implementing Clothier recommendations

Simon Canning

Donation deferred

College seeks Bottomless assurance over job titles dispute

Red Cross trio in Rwanda capital

RCN Congress to hear decision on nurse prescribing

Sweeping change in nurse roles forecast

Simon Canning

The silence of the lambs

Mike Walsh

Welcome to Bournemouth ‘94