System failure

Linda Nazarko

Ward witness

Joy Miles

Gossip

Newly qualified Pete Dean reflects his experience of exams and asks: ‘Is that it?'

RN Pete Dean

Face to face

Nicola Andrew

Cash 22

Kenneth Ashton

Study Daze

Rosemary Cook

Backs to the wall

Couell Roger

Information exchange

Catherine Taylor, Dawn Grealey, Rosemary Skinner, Ms A Terdenzi, AM Lee-Ranson, A M Ait ken, Isabel Osborne, Linda Howard, Lindsey McKenna, A M Noakes, Wendy Simpson

No real jobs for just- qualified nurses

Plj

Staffing is now at a dangerous level

The wrong notepaper and the wrong values

The need to uphold nursing standards

Money now rules everything for trusts

Professionals - but we are also employees

Deborah Briggs

Paediatric nurses are often devalued

Cooksley campaign is not going away

Graham Pink, Anne Siddall

The theory/practice gap: can it be closed?

Howkins Elizabeth

Information needs of hysterectomy patients

Angela Scriven, Anne Chesterton

A case study in Rogerian nursing

Ann Milk, Franck C Biley

Testing lower urinary tract function

Kate Welford

Drop in centre for cancer care

Bobby Jones

Predicting a bright future

Ruled by the clock

Linda Lamont

The time machine

Rosemary Wilkinson

Star signs

Care - not a production line

UKCC’s management crisis timetable

Ralph dears his desk

Graham Scott

Facing the challenge

Jean Gray

Health risks of weight loss/regain cycle

Increasing emergency contraception uptake

Joint repair with cultured cells?

Food and fluids in the terminally ill

UKCC post filled for six months

Graham Scott

Guidelines on pressure sores released soon

News

Nursing Standard picks up PPA Award for subscription promotion

News in brief

Overseas nursing experience penalised by NHS

News

Sacked lesbian joins gay campaign against MoD

District nurses top work injuries table

Concern over new deregulation bill

Grade recognition struggle for newly qualified nurses

News in brief

Current nurse prescribing practice could be divisive

Council disturbed by measles immunisation campaign

Williams Kate

News in brief

‘Tired, stressed’ children’s nurse battered two babies

Bottomley wary about cannabis as a medicine

News

Leading trusts to pave the way on pay

Doult Bill, Leifer Dina

Ethnic groups feel let down by mental health services

Leifer Dina

News

Bottomley fails to convince sceptics over elderly care

Healy Pat

Bottomley presents Clothier safeguards in wake of Allitt

Doult Bill

Community care targets ‘unrealistic’

CPNs facing ‘scapegoat’ fear as workloads increase without proper training or back-up

Uncertain future for Lothian’s bank nurses

Ralph’s departure prompts URCC review

Scott Graham

Best practice in counselling skills

Armstrong Elizabeth

Editorial

Norah Casey