Listing

Mousetrap for spider fearers everywhere

Do do Rom Rom

Using your devices

Eczema video

New this month

Anaesthesia A to Z

Critical Thinking In Nursing:A Practical Approach

Caring for the dying patient and the family. third edition

When a baby dies: the experience of late miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neoiuital death

Bereavement and grief: supporting older people through loss

Coping with death

A model approach

Sue Bun

Nursing your own

Lucy Moon

Let the clients choose their care

Liz Baines

A testing time for the UKCC

Andrew Rogers AISc, Robert Jenkins Rnaih, Alwyn Pugh Mn

Registered sympathiser

Rosemary Cook

Multimedia reviews

New ways forward for nursing equality

Sarah Williams

Scottish christian fellowship still exists

Nurses’ Christian

Readers panel

Brendan McMahon, Wendy Hall, Kevin Kendrick, Christopher Humm, Roberta Burton, Chris Cruickshank, Fiona Feildhouse, Andrea Martin, Linda Hollings

Information exchange

We should all learn ‘advanced’ skills

Sheila Inwood

Keeping your reading up to date

Nicky Harding

Hepatitis B: when immunisation fails

Judith Dixon Malton

Are the surgeons the ‘angels’ these days?

Debbie Murdock

ME has ruined my nursing career

Hilary Thomas

Too few registered mental nurses

Tinia Galletly

Publicise project 2000 hardship

Sue Johnston

Take the chance to join in debate

Roger Cowell

We need more staff to keep standards

Jim Glen

A study of nurses’ attitudes and quality of documents in computer care planning

Charleen Newton

The use of thinking tools in nursing

David Lewis

Changes in long-term mental health nursing

Paul Armitage

The use of steroids in asthma treatment

Susan Hunter

Just plain torture

Maureen Raper

Who’s caring in the community?

Mike George

Worried to death

Fewer students leads to dramatic review

Julie McCaughan

Patients do well in nursing-led units

JO Barr

Drug use is increasing

Tom Sandford

New prognostic factor for colorectal cancer?

Projected need for knee replacement

Nurses need knowledge about incontinence

Risk of pancreatic cancer with diabetes

News

Associations unite to launch new forum for men’s health

Clinical supervision to run out of ‘goodwill’

Senior management costs £900 million

Dina Leifer

News in brief

Asthma to rival smoking disease costs

Nurse loses battle on gays in forces

Network of services urgently needed

Mental healthcare staff review begins

JO Barr

Research shows lack of support for abused children

Need to focus on leadership

Nurse practitioners need more support

Kate Williams

Managers must bridge divide with staff

Nurse suicide case to be referred to DoH

Students win first pay rise for four years

Graham Scott

Allitt victims’ families have to prove distress

Nurses must take responsibility for reporting misconduct

PM’s support for private NHS

Bill Doult

Pressure on trusts to intake offers

RCN claims progress on pay

Dina Leifer

Barrier contraception: issues and trends

Gill Wootton

Editoral

Norah Casey