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The Child and Family

Patric Devitt

Becoming a nurse: a career survival guide

Bruce Lindsay

My patient - my nurse, 2nd Edition

Rod Thomson

Golden opportunity?

John Howe

Hope, scope and a jump

Matthew Winter

Short shrift for long shifts

Linda Nazarko

Mediocrity: It’s just not good enough

Colin Gretbé

Handshakes with hillary

Daniel Allen

What’s it all about?

Roger Cowell

Status quo

Dimitra Balkizas

Information exchange

Stoma care is for specialist nurses

Sue Hinchliff

We really are open all hours in Skegness!

DL Read

Not all doom and gloom for child care

Liz Winder

Basic values are what this country needs

David Hands

What about the good news in our homes?

Putting forward a balanced view

Barry Hassell

Nursing homes: the debate continues

Auditing student practice placements

Feny Ghazi

Depression in older people: a study

Barbara Wade

Sharps handling and disposal: a study

Dinah Gould

Risky business

Mary Spinks

Nursing’s new role in the future of research

Alex Mathieson

Meeting all our maternity needs

Jackie Robinson

Breaking the news

Simon Canning

Abdominal pain linked to pre-eclampsia

Therapeutic touch of virtual reality

Vaccine shows promise against genital herpes

Omeprazole prevents oesophagitis relapse

Education helps patients in self-management of asthma

Family clinic success improves ethnic health care by screening households

News in brief

Public tolerance of depends on severity

New guidelines from Age Concern

News in brief

Psoriasis care scheme launched

Four hospitals in project to improve ward leadership

Top nurse calls for a halt to pressure sore research

‘Unfair’ tax trap system penalises community nurses

Care without judgement needed for modern families

News

News in brief

Plan to save on sick leave

Training needed for therapies

All party group launched to raise profile of epilepsy

Move to legalise cannabis for multiple sclerosis sufferers

Future of nurse education in north of Scotland threatened

Bill Doult

News in brief

Report on research grants praises sister penny prophit

New partnership for health care

BMA calls for police station nurses

RCN says quality systems 'must be more flexible'

Nursing needs a sense of fun to survive, conference told

Kitson calls for young nurses to be involved in leadership

RCN and BMA in link-up to save pay review body system

£210,000 damages for back injury

News

News in brief

Trust denies gag on nurses over closure row

Hancock: Nurses should be heading clinical teams

Pay structures and management must change, says Mailly

Anne Wiltsher

Bottomley challenged to work as a care assistant

Anne Wiltsher

News

RCN president calls for openness at UKCC

Facts behind acute bed cuts ‘should be made public’

Nurse productivity now better than ever

Graham Scott

Editorial

Norah Casey