| Nursing Times 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 2020 vision.(medicine and nursing in the future) | Health | John Howe |
| A berry Christmas. (renewed interest in therapeutic effect of mistletoe) | Health | David Watkins |
| A bit of a do: tactical voting, late-night parties, exhibition junkies...there's much more to congress than meets the eye. (RCN annual congress) | Health | Mike Hayward |
| A change for the better. (inner city community mental health services) | Health | Iain Ryrie, Maresa Ness |
| A Christian path. (nursing; religious aspects) | Health | Owen Bennett |
| A clean sweep.(treatment of childhood encopresis) | Health | Peter Griffiths, Joan Burns |
| A common ailment. (respiratory syncytial virus)(Infection Control) | Health | Edward Purssell, Diana Gould |
| A critical difference.(kinetic therapy, a response to Mark Collier in Nursing Times, March 5, 1997)(Wound Care) | Health | June Poston |
| A cut too far? (benign prostatic hyperplasia; treatments)(includes related article on the Prostate Help Association) | Health | Philip Dunn |
| A diplomatic service. (creating an integrated nursing team) | Health | Wendy Burke |
| After the battle.(army nurses in Bosnia) | Health | Kevin Davies, Martin Bricknell |
| A garden of the imagination. (creation of sensory garden at Woodfield Nursery for children with learning disabilities in Oldham, England) | Health | Jo Gartland |
| Age of no concern.(age discrimination in the National Health Service) | Health | Sally Greengross |
| A health care revolution.(health care in Cuba) | Health | Robert Quick |
| A healthier shade: after a narrow escape from a terminal suntan Gary Price is happy to remain pale and interesting. | Health | Gary Price |
| A healthy degree of success. (degree in nutrition support)(Nutrition) | Health | Pearl Burnham, Jackie Collett |
| Air today, gone tomorrow: air sampling is a costly and time-consuming exercise and results can be misleading. (Infection Control) | Health | Kate Mennie |
| A kick up the ballot.(why nurses should use their vote in the UKCC election) | Health | Paul Chapman |
| A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.(teaching infection control) | Health | Molly Courtenay |
| Alive & kicking.(support groups for women with breast cancer) | Health | Rosemary Burch |
| All fall down. (influenza pandemic; 1918-1919) | Health | Bryan Robinson |
| Alternative intake. (peripheral parenteral nutrition)(Nutrition supplement.) | Health | Diane Palmer, John MacFie |
| A model approach to care of a patient with alcohol problems. | Health | Christopher Buswell |
| Anaphylaxis. (assessment and treatment of severe allergic reactions) | Health | Teresa Green |
| A natural nursing talent.(uses of marketing to develop nursing) | Health | Christine Halek |
| An audit of catheter specimen testing practices in the ICU.(intensive care unit; United Kingdom research) | Health | Evonne Curran |
| An audit of pain management in acute sickle cell crisis. | Health | Jill Day |
| An embryonic dilemma. (moral issues of cloning) | Health | Arlene Judith Klotzko |
| An essential and ancient oil. (tea-tree oil in oral care for hospice patients) | Health | Alison Mennie |
| A new way to care.(for people with HIV infection) | Health | Hamish MacGregor |
| Animal action stations: pet-owners do not need to be anxious about who will care for their animal if they become incapable of doing so. | Health | Averil Jarvis |
| A nose for trouble. (nasogastric tube feeding)(Nutrition supplement.) | Health | Hazel Rollins |
| A one-woman crusade. (Tsering Lhamo, founder of a shelter for Tibetan refugees)(Interview) | Health | David Gough |
| A perfect partnership in practice: redefining nurses' roles can be a minefield. But now management and unions are working closers together. | Health | Craig Kenney |
| A personal challenge: people with personality disorders can be helped by cognitive behavioural therapy. | Health | Adrian Childs-Clarke, Peter Oxley |
| A plan for introducing evidence-based practice. (nursing research at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland)(NT Practice) | Health | Joan Curzio |
| A positive approach to chemotherapy: alleviating anxiety and providing reassurance can help a cancer patient take a positive approach to treatment. | Health | Maureen Whenery-Tedder |
| A practical way forward in forging alliances. (mental health) | Health | Paul Baker |
| A practice-centred model of clinical supervision. | Health | Peter Nicklin |
| A proud record.(United Kingdom Conservative party health policy) | Health | Stephen Dorrell |
| Are older people satisfied with discharge information? (United Kingdom hospital patients) | Health | Monica Smith |
| A review of approaches to teenage pregnancy. | Health | Deirdre Fullerton |
| A room with a view.(how hospices confront the fear of dying) | Health | Julia Lawton |
| A screening programme for people over 75. (health centre programme) | Health | Gail Young, Debbie Johnstone |
| A second chance. (heart transplant patients)(includes related article on personal experience of heart transplant)(Cover Story) | Health | Pauline Greaves |
| A snapshot in time. (disappointing take-up of UK's national vocational qualifications in the NHS) | Health | Paul Chapman |
| Assessing course on pain. (pain relief training for nurses) | Health | Vikki Entwistle |
| Assessing the future. (wound assessment) (Wound Care) | Health | Elizabeth Williams |
| Assessment and planning for older people. (nutritional status of elderly hospital patients)(Nutrition) | Health | Ann Hunt |
| Assessment of the risks posed by people with mental illness. | Health | James Noak |
| Asthma in older people. | Health | Patricia MacDonald |
| A strategy to reduce laxative use among older people.(includes related article on gut problems in the elderly) | Health | Eileen Stewart, John Innes, Jean Mackenzie, George Downie |
| A successful bladder retraining programme. (avoiding catheterization in elderly people with bladder problems) | Health | Susan Vernon, Sarah Bleakley |
| Asylum seekers.(profile of Broadmoor secure hospital) | Health | Chris Allen |
| A talent for listening. (National Deaf Services at Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust in London, England, employs deaf people to care for deaf people with mental health problems) | Health | Emmanuel Chan |
| A treatment of last resort. (larval therapy) (Wound Infection) | Health | Heulwen Evans |
| Auditing infection.(in hospitals) | Health | Valerie Ward |
| A world apart.(working as an aid worker abroad) | Health | Clive Cavanagh |
| Back from the twilight zone. (personal experience of a patient in an intensive care unit) | Health | Neil Sawyer |
| Balanced mix. (rationing of care provided by United Kingdom National Health Service is inevitable) | Health | Margaret Elliott |
| Behavioural misdiagnosis. | Health | Simon Reeves |
| Behaviour modification in hyperactive children. | Health | Anne Weeks, Cathy Laver-Bradbury |
| Behind bars. (work of health care personnel in Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, England; includes related article on prison health care system) | Health | Ian McMillan |
| Benefits of standardised assessment.(assessment process for continuing care of the elderly) | Health | Deborah Sturdy, Ian Carpenter |
| B fit or B flat.(therapy for music students) | Health | Neil Crossley |
| Big ears goes to work.(listening to health service users) | Health | Stephen Peckham |
| Blinded by the light. (United Kingdom health professionals experience guardian angels) | Health | Renata Langford |
| Blood coagulation: what screening tests can show. | Health | Chris Higgins |
| Blood in the sand. (Saudi Arabia; punitive regime, British nurses) | Health | Lynn Eaton, Jo Waters |
| Blue days: with the constant fear of death for company, an isolation patient needs strong, honest words to hang on to. | Health | Loretta Loach |
| Blues in the night. (night work and symptoms of clinical depression)(Cover Story) | Health | David Healy |
| Bottling out. (National Breast-Feeding Awareness Week) | Health | Alison Moore |
| Breaking down the barriers to effective communication. (between health professionals and patients) | Health | |
| Breaking the chains.(sexual abuse in mental health centres) | Health | Malcolm Rae, Maeve Murphy, Caroline Collins |
| Breast-feeding support in a neonatal surgical unit. | Health | Rosemary Fraser |
| Brief encounters.(one day in the working life of a psychiatric liaison nurse) | Health | David Watts |
| Broadmoor is first among equals. (Broadmoor Hospital's new psychiatric unit for women) | Health | Ian McMillan |
| Bug busters. (headlice campaign) | Health | Christine Duncan |
| Burnt into our memory.(improvement in nursing practice as a result of the King's Cross fire, includes brief article about a survivor) | Health | Neil Crossley |
| Call to stop GPs seizing control. (United Kingdom nursing unions concerned about GPs gaining control of National Health Service purchasing) | Health | |
| Cardiovascular assessment. | Health | Debbie Field |
| Care after bone marrow transplantation.(part 3) | Health | Timothy Jackson, Nikki McKeag, Judith Stuart |
| Caring for neonates. (infection control) | Health | Anne Griffiths-Jones |
| Cash control. (the role of budget-holding ward manager in a United Kingdom hospital)(Leadership supplement) | Health | Chrissie Craske |
| Cash in the bank. (nurse bank system; usage by hospitals)(Cover Story) | Health | Mike Travis |
| Cause for alarm.(better care in labour would save babies' lives) | Health | Cathy Cooper |
| Changing the guard: with a mission to save the NHS but no extra money to back it, Labour's team at the Department of Health faces a tough challenge. | Health | Pete Bell |
| Children's nurse and service manager in acute paediatrics. | Health | Julie Dewsall, Kate King |
| Choice in intrapartum care. (choice for women in labour within United Kingdom health service) | Health | Elisabeth Judge |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.(Learning curve) | Health | Christina Bunce, Carl Margerson, Glenda Esmond |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: professional issues. (part 3)(includes Professional Development posttest) | Health | |
| Citizen Smith. (mental health patients; involvement in society)(Cover Story) | Health | Peter Campbell |
| Client-held records in community mental health. | Health | Ben Hannigan, Anna Stafford |
| Clinical staff development: a two-way solution. | Health | Rose Anderson, Alyson Dickson, Sue Lee |
| Clinical supervision: a hornet's nest? (controversy over clinical supervision for United Kingdom nurses and health visitors) | Health | Philip Wolsey, Lesley Leach |
| Clinical supervision in nursing homes. (nursing staff) | Health | Neil Brocklehurst |
| Clinical supervision: managing the resistance.(why nurses resist clinical supervision and ways of overcoming this) | Health | Peter Wilkin, Len Bowers, Juliet Monk |
| Close observation: how to improve assessments. (psychiatric wards; close observation of patients)(includes case study) | Health | Sharon Dennis |
| Clueless in the commons: despite the government's hunger to transform the NHS, it simply has no idea how the replace the internal market. | Health | Nial Dickson |
| Cognitive behavioural nursing therapy in paranoid psychosis. | Health | Joanne Sullivan |
| Comfort eating.(giving oral stimulation to children who are enterally fed) | Health | Carol Robinson, Ruth Townsley |
| Complementary therapies and healthcare practice. (includes related article extracts and study questions)(Learning Curve supplement.) | Health | |
| Complementary therapy to fight drug addiction. | Health | David Southall |
| Computer assessment in continuing care.(assessed continuing care package for elderly people) | Health | Susan Brown |
| Consent and common law. (legal position concerning accident and emergency patients who do not or who cannot consent to treatment) (includes case study)(NT Practice) | Health | Anthony Harrison |
| Consulting room?(moves to encourage patient participation in United Kingdom health services) | Health | Chris Kent |
| Continence care: choosing carefully.(methods of treatment)(includes related article about catheters) | Health | Catharine Hodges |
| Coping with stress.(in nursing; includes details about setting up support groups and stress awareness programmes) | Health | Isobell Jackson |
| Could you justify this decision? | Health | Sue Parker |
| Counselling people with HIV about pregnancy. | Health | Tracy Chester, Corinne Moore, Jo White |
| Countdown to completion: fears that enrolled nurses would not find enough courses to convert to registered nurse status have turned out to be exaggerated. The task of converting over 50,000 ENs may soon be completed. | Health | John Humphreys, Jane Hemsley-Brown |
| Counting the dead.(nurses who kill patients) | Health | Cameron Stark |
| Country life.(health care provision in the country) | Health | Carol Evans |
| Cry freedom. (Spirituality)(nursing; religious aspects) | Health | Trevor Emdon |
| Cut out the padding. (continence management)(Continence supplement) | Health | Anne Siddle |
| Damned if you do ....(victimizing nurses who report mental illness) | Health | Allan House |
| Damning for all. (dangers of perpetuating a negative image of mental illness)(Column) | Health | Kay Sheldon |
| Deadly substitute.(prescribing methadone) | Health | Hilary Wheat |
| Death in the family: helping with pet bereavement. | Health | Simon O'Donovan |
| Deathly silence. (ethical involvement of nurses in executions) | Health | Carolyn Mason |
| Dedicated palliative care.(setting up a residential centre for mental health patients with HIV and AIDS) | Health | Andrew Baker |
| De-escalation in the management of aggression and violence. | Health | Brodie Paterson, David Leadbetter, Alex McComish |
| Delivering satisfaction.(UK midwifery) | Health | Jackie Cresswell |
| Demanding supply.(parenteral nutrition, includes case study of patient) | Health | Susanne Wood, Kathryn Charles |
| Dementia: supporting the patient and the carer: care of people with dementia in the community requires a great deal of nursing support for all involved. | Health | Madeline Armstrong |
| Denial: a symptom of addiction.(response to article by Michael Brookes in this issue p. 28)(includes readers' letters) | Health | Hilary Wheat |
| Dermatology: the forgotten subject? (Skin Care) | Health | Mercy Jeyasingham |
| Determining the causes of fertility problems. | Health | Catherine Prosser |
| Developing a nurse-led aural care clinic. | Health | Hisham Zeitoun |
| Developing skills for sharing information. | Health | Caroline Alexander |
| Diabetes childhood incidence. (includes related articles) | Health | Catharine Hodges |
| Diary of a festival.(medical help at the Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts) | Health | Rachel Hutchinson |
| Dignity to the end.(care of a dying patient) | Health | Sarah Russell |
| Diptheria: a changing pattern. | Health | Susan McQueen |
| Diversion schemes: an alternative to court. (new approaches to dealing with offenders with mental health problems)(includes case studies) | Health | Belinda Gibson |
| Don't just role over and die. (United Kingdom, mental health nursing) | Health | Lesley Warner |
| Do we fail those who fail? (little support for nursing students who fail in their studies)(Students) | Health | Wilfred McSherry, Glen Marland |
| Down on the farm.(providing health services to farmers) | Health | Mike Walsh, Cath Gerrard |
| Do ya think I'm sexy?(sex and the over 60's) | Health | Suzanne Rathbone |
| Drug-related problems in older people.(includes case study and list of common problems) | Health | Ziba Rajaei-Dehkordi, Gail MacPherson |
| Due south. (mental health care on the Falkland Islands) | Health | David Harding-Price |
| Early intervention begins at home. (psychiatric care) (Safe as Houses, part 3) | Health | Nigel Crompton |
| Ear today, gone tomorrow?(health policy issues in the UK general election campaign) | Health | Patrick Butler |
| Emergency action.(emergency psychiatric nurses; includes case studies) | Health | Mark Roberts, Bob Taylor |
| Empowering the carers of patients with dementia. | Health | Rosemary Simpson |
| EN career development opportunities: conversion is by no means the only way for ENs to get ahead. (Learning Curve) | Health | Marianne Phillips |
| Ending of student grants outrages nursing unions. | Health | |
| Energy crisis. (malnutrition; hospital patients)(Nutrition supplement.) | Health | Gail Beese |
| Enquiring into healthcare practice: carrying out an enquiry-based project. | Health | |
| Enrolled and endangered: a survey of nurses and employers suggests grim times ahead for those enrolled nurses who cannot, or will not, convert. | Health | Chris Mahoney |
| Epidemiology in infection control. | Health | Anne Mulhall |
| Epilepsy: the most common serious neurological condition. | Health | Annette Russell, Alice Hanscomb |
| Equipped to care.(care of pressure sores, includes main factors in bedsore prevention)(Wound Care) | Health | Kate O'Dea |
| Erythrocyte sedimentation test as an aid to diagnosis. | Health | Christopher Higgins |
| Ethics of fertility treatment. (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) | Health | Suzanne McCarthy |
| Evaluation of nurse and midwife education in Scotland. | Health | Margaret Alexander, Jean McIntosh, Lin Veitch, Nick May |
| Every day was so bloody awful .... (failed suicide attempt; personal narrative)(Suicide: Nurses' Tales special section)(Cover Story) | Health | James Taylor |
| Exclusion of care.(caring for children with mental health problems) | Health | Liam Clarke |
| Failing the screen test.(screening for illnesses may not be in the public interest) | Health | Trevor Sheldon |
| Faith healing. (large fungating wound arising from squamous cell carcinoma; care and treatment)(includes related article on skin cancers) | Health | Susan Cosgrove |
| Family relationships during serious illness. | Health | Jenny Altschuler |
| Fatal reaction.(causes of anaphylactic shock, includes related article about Anaphylaxis Campaign) | Health | Terence McGeary |
| Fear and loathing.(overcoming public fear of mental illness; includes article about survey findings) | Health | Julie Repper |
| Fellow travellers. (help on offer from self-help groups) | Health | Jane Feinmann |
| Fibrin sheaths in vascular access devices. (management of venous catheters in patients) | Health | Janice Gabriel |
| Finding the flaw. (incontinence; preventative role of primary care nurses)(Continence) | Health | Jane Dowse |
| Flashback to my own baby killer nightmare. (midwife Susan Alston, whose baby was killed by childminder in 1993) | Health | Mary Hampshire |
| Floor plan. (pelvic floor; anatomy and physiology)(Continence) | Health | Jeanette Haslam |
| Fluid systems.(parenteral nutrition of infants, includes details of special considerations and medical conditions which require it) | Health | Christine Holden, Heather Kelcey |
| Flying the standards. (Former Director of Nursing Standards in the United Kingdom working in Yugoslavia) | Health | |
| Foreign policy. (continence advice and minority ethnic women)(Continence) | Health | Veronica Haggar |
| Forging new roles: professional and practice development are tagged on to new nursing posts, but what do these terms really mean? (includes related article) | Health | Jane Mallett |
| Forgotten casualties.(Bosnian patients with mental health problems and learning disabilities) | Health | Andrew Johnstone |
| For immediate topical application.(midwifery) | Health | Anne Taylor |
| Four-layer bandaging.(Know How) | Health | Christine Moffatt |
| Free the spirit.(spiritualism in nursing) | Health | Steve Wright |
| From profession to commodity.(developing nursing policies) | Health | Nicola Walsh, Pippa Gough |
| Full of beans.(genetically engineered foods) | Health | Mary Taylor |
| Genetic screening: risk factors for breast cancer. | Health | Emma White, James Mackay |
| Germ warfare. (antiseptics; bacterial resistance) | Health | Sylvia Hampton |
| Get back on track. (nurses; back injuries) | Health | Harriet Gaze |
| Good old home cooking. (nursing homes; nutritional adequacy of meals)(Nutrition supplement.) | Health | Anne Micklewright, Vera Todorovic |
| Goose grease and brown paper. (traditional remedies for childhood ailments) | Health | Dorothy Hill |
| Growing pains.(urinary continence problems in children) | Health | Penny Dobson |
| Growth hormone deficiency in adults. | Health | Maureen Wallymahmed |
| Guilt complex. (caring for a mother with dementia)(Special section on carers) | Health | Barbara Easton |
| Halfway home. (intermediate care services at Shipley Hospital, England) | Health | Susan Ince, Angie Clegg |
| Handing back the reins. (user-based model of care for the mentally ill)(Cover Story) | Health | Martin Westwood |
| Handle nurses with care: lifting policies are changing.(includes related article on the practice and economics of safe handling) | Health | |
| Hard graft.(management of skin grafts, includes details about different dressings)(Wound Care) | Health | Barbara Wilkinson |
| Hard times: GPs are increasingly reluctant to treat older people in long-term care homes. Is this the thin end of the wedge. | Health | Hazel Health |
| Have a nice day.(study days for nurses) | Health | Grace Lindsay |
| Healing Jesus.(management of a nurse-led psychiatric service) | Health | Lisa Loveridge |
| Healing messengers.(growth factors) | Health | Bernard R. Garrett, Sheila Garrett |
| Healthcare evaluation: evaluating the health service.(UK; excerpt from MacMillan Open Learning 'Healthcare Evaluation'; Learning curve) | Health | |
| Health care for women with learning disabilities. (Dundee, United Kingdom) | Health | Diane McRae |
| Health promotion models. | Health | |
| Health, wealth and strategy.(asthma strategy can improve provision of care, includes case study) | Health | Chris Fehrenbach |
| Heart to heart. (organ transplant patients; after-care)(Cover Story) | Health | Jane Edmunds, Rachel Gittins, Peter Mercer |
| Heat and dust.(conditions on Montserrat, includes sidebar article about an emergency shelter) | Health | Andy Johnstone |
| Help is at hand.(advantages and disadvantages of volunteer services in United Kingdom National Health Service) | Health | Joy Merrell |
| Hepatitis C: a bloody business. (includes related articles) | Health | Nigel Hughes, Matthew Dolan |
| Hepatitis C: it's in the blood. | Health | Carol Watson |
| He's leaving home.(resettling a mentally handicapped adult into a new home) | Health | John Brooke |
| Hidden killer. (ovarian cancer)(Cover Story) | Health | Maria Healy |
| High anxiety: drug us is common among people with mental health problems, providing temporary relief but also often longer-term problems. What can nurses do to help? | Health | Phil McEvoy |
| High-flying activist. (former nurse and political activist Avis Hutt) | Health | Chris Hart, Michael Walker |
| High pressure areas.(stress in the nursing profession) | Health | Paul Kennedy, Nick Grey |
| High priority. (United Kingdom project to identify nursing priorities) | Health | Elizabeth Scott, Anne Marie Rafferty, Alison Kitson, Ann McMahon |
| High seas, high drama. (nursing in a round-the-world yacht race) | Health | Phil Revell |
| Hitting the streets.(mobile health clinic for homeless people) | Health | Harriet Gaze |
| Home-based cardiac rehabilitation. | Health | Judith Imich |
| Home but not alone. (community respite project for psychiatric patients) (includes a case study) (Safe as Houses, part 1) | Health | Stanley Riseborough |
| Home economics. (Ealing Hospital NHS Trust in London, England, offers post-operative home nursing care for day surgery patients) | Health | Barbara Millar |
| Home for people with challenging behaviours. | Health | John Rose, Steve Walker |
| Home is where the heart is: recovering at home is proving to be a successful option for cardiac surgery patients. (includes related article) | Health | Helen Goodman |
| Homes on the range: are the multinationals that own some of Britain's nursing homes raising standards or are they just after profits. (includes related articles) | Health | Phillip Inman, Kendra Sone |
| Honesty on trial.(fraud in clinical research) | Health | Barbara Millar |
| How a primary care specialist role for HIV/AIDS was set up.(human immunodeficiency virus) | Health | Elizabeth Rink, Heidi Lempp, Lorraine Taylor |
| How nurses can influence policy. (includes related article) | Health | Peter Spurgeon |
| How nurses can support people with epilepsy: skilled care and support make a great difference to the quality of life of patients with epilepsy. | Health | Annette Russell |
| How rheumatoid arthritis affects patients and families: the family plays a vital role in the treatment of people with chronic rheumatoid arthritis. | Health | Sarah Ryan |
| How the shared-care model can benefit patients and staff. | Health | Sue Webber, Tina Wills |
| How to avoid the pitfalls of questionnaire design. | Health | Graeme McGibbon |
| How to get credit for your previous learning. (nursing and midwifery continuing education)(Learning Curve supplement.) | Health | Jo Skinner |
| How to get published in NT.(Nursing Times; guidance on writing composition, style for publication) | Health | |
| How to make questionnaire work: looks may not be everything, but an attractive user-friendly design combined with clear targeted questions help a questionnaire do its job. | Health | Graeme McGibbon |
| Humane decisions. (rationing in United Kingdom National Health Service) | Health | Iona Heath |
| Hypodermoclysis as a means of rehydration.(a simple way of replacing fluids in the elderly) | Health | Aza Abdula, John Keast |
| Identity crisis.(pyoderma gangrenosum) | Health | Trudie Young |
| If pigs could fly.(animal organ transplants into humans) | Health | Richard Nicholson |
| If the past was tense can the future be perfrect?: Nursing Times launched in 1905, since when nursing has not controlled its destiny as much as it would like. | Health | Anne Marie Rafferty |
| Images of health and illness. (media images)(includes related study questions) | Health | |
| Immaculate contraception.(centre providing contraceptive advice to young people) | Health | Kay Smith |
| Independent means.(helping disabled children to control their bowels and bladders) | Health | Elizabeth Brookes |
| Informed care. (workshops for carers of people with dementia)(Special section on carers) | Health | Barbara Jones, Angela Bennett, Marion Murphy, John Riordan |
| In search of perfection: the complex nature of bulimia nervosa has led to the development of various treatments. | Health | Heather Wiseman |
| Inside story.(giving medication to patients on enteral nutrition, includes related article on absorption of different drugs) | Health | Alison Smith |
| Intergenerational work with older Asian people: a charity has brought together children and older Asian people at a new day centre. | Health | Susan Langford |
| Intermittent catheterisation for post-operative urine retention. | Health | Sue Julley |
| Interpreting policy at local level. (health policy) | Health | Sylvia Fry |
| In the line of fire. (case study of a physically assaulted nurse) | Health | |
| In the melting pot.(skill mixing of different health professionals) | Health | Kate Bones, Melanie Heald, Judith Boxer, Ray Miller |
| Intra-ocular melanoma.(cancer in the eye) | Health | Jane Humphreys |
| In tune with clients.(how music helped Alzheimer patient) | Health | Clive Spendlove |
| Invisible carers. (carers with learning disabilities)(includes case studies) | Health | Marie Comerasamy |
| Invisible exports: why do Irish-born women in Britain have higher rates of mental illness than both indigenous and other immigrant women. | Health | Ethel Corduff |
| I recognised the man who had tried to hang himself. (suicidal hospital patient; nurse's reaction)(Suicide: Nurses' Tales special section.)(Cover Story) | Health | Esther Davidson |
| Is curiosity killing nursing? (dangers of overemphasis on academic excellence in nursing in United Kingdom) | Health | Mark Radcliffe |
| Is it ever acceptable to deceive a patient? | Health | Deborah Ballinger |
| Island in the sun. (health care in the Maldives)(includes related article about voluntary service overseas) | Health | Peter Rookes |
| Is mum the word?: Tessa Jowell wants to shake up attitudes to inequality and illness. | Health | Val Buxton |
| Italian ideals: Italy pioneered care in the community for people with mental health problems. What can UK nurses learn from their Italian colleagues? | Health | Pam Chan |
| It could be you. Antenatal screening ... just another lottery?(for Downs Syndrome) | Health | Jacqui Rogers |
| Its a duet not a duel.(being a lecturer and a practitioner, includes tables showing expected outcomes of the role) | Health | Sue Ford, Pat Fairbrother |
| It's all academic. (academic credibility of the nursing profession) | Health | Howard Shelley |
| I wanted to stop the world and get off ... but not forever. (suicide attempt; personal narrative)(Suicide: Nurses' Tales special section)(Cover Story) | Health | Kay Watkins |
| Juvenile chronic arthritis: epidemiology and genetics. | Health | Martin Leach |
| Know how: alternating pressure relief. | Health | |
| Know how. (Diabetic Foot Ulceration) | Health | |
| Know how: female catheterisation. | Health | Wnedy Colley |
| Know how: Guide to eczema/dermatitis. | Health | Tom Poyner |
| Know how: ischaemic leg ulcers. | Health | |
| Know how: latex sensitisation. | Health | |
| Know how: management of cavity wounds. | Health | |
| Know how. (management of wound exudate.) | Health | |
| Know how ... vitamins and minerals. (children's vitamin and mineral requirements, part 4)(Nutrition) | Health | Anita MacDonald |
| Know how vitamins and minerals: key micronutrient requirements during adolescence 11-18 years.(part five) | Health | |
| Know how: vitamins and minerals. (nutritional requirements; middle-aged and elderly)(Nutrition supplement.) | Health | Tara Hegney |
| Know how: wet wraps in atopic eczema.(Skin Care) | Health | Sue Donald |
| Labour of love: undervalued and under attack - that is how surrogate mothers in the UK feel. | Health | Kim Cotton |
| Lashings of double standards.(Saudi Arabian legal system) | Health | Brid Hehir |
| Learning to understand a patient's silence.(enhancing patient health care) | Health | Brian Lomax |
| Legionnaires' legacy. (causes and treatment of legionnaires' disease)(Infection Control) | Health | Terence McGeary |
| Less pain, more gain.(reducing pain when changing dressings) | Health | Helen Hollinworth |
| Let's talk about sex. (sex education outreach projects) | Health | Muriel O'Driscoll |
| Life and death decisions about babies' treatment. | Health | Hazel McHaffie, Peter Fowlie |
| Life can be tough for the inbetweenies. (need for management support for nurses) | Health | Sue Dowling |
| Light relief.(laser therapy for leg ulcers, includes details of the study and how to use the laser)(Wound Care) | Health | Eva Shuttleworth, Kath Banfield |
| Limited access.(to health facilities in rural areas) | Health | Allison Heward |
| Link up, check up, speak up.(equal access to health care for elderly in care homes) | Health | Sue Cochrane |
| Long term health care and the ethics of the marketplace. | Health | Brendan McCormack |
| Look again.(needs of the elderly disabled) | Health | Angela Cotter |
| Looking back, I definitely wanted to die. (suicidal patient; personal narrative)(Suicide: Nurses' Tales special section)(Cover Story) | Health | Claire Addison |
| Losing sight of the future. (school nursing cutbacks; United Kingdom)(includes related article on the Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust school nursing service) | Health | Sandra Rote |
| Loss adjusters. (bereavement support for relatives) (includes results of relatives' audit) | Health | Cesca Watts, Barbara Hall |
| Luck of the draw?(screening and management of breast cancer in the UK, includes list of support organisations and details of recent research) | Health | Jessica Barnett |
| Mad to work here.... (mental health employment scheme)(includes related article on views of user employees)(Cover Story) | Health | Ben Davidson, Rachel Perkins |
| Major under taking: funeral workers often lack information on dealing with the bodies of people who have died from specific infections. (Infection Control) | Health | Vera Crummey |
| Make marketing your business.(nurses need to market their skills) | Health | Barbara Vaughan, Sandra Jowett |
| Make the right noises caring for hearing-impaired patients. | Health | John Hines |
| Making a difference through acceptance.(alternative therapy for mental health crises) | Health | Ben Davidson |
| Making a fresh start. (Wound Care) | Health | Margaret Crookes |
| Making babies making waves.(television programme tackles stigma of infertility) | Health | Tessa Brown |
| Making sense of ...parenteral nutrition in adult patients. | Health | Teresa Finlay |
| Male order problems. (work of impotence clinic in Glan Clwyd Hospital, United Kingdom) | Health | Peter Clark |
| Management material: every day nurses demonstrate the skills that are vital for good leadership, but when it comes to management few think they have got what it takes. | Health | David Hunter, Christine Kent |
| Management of pleural drains. (nursing practice) (includes case study) (Care is Critical, part 8)(NT Practice) | Health | Kate McMahon-Parkes |
| Managing the risk: forensic psychiatric nursing is one of the most challenging-and rewarding-specialities that nursing has to offer. | Health | Chirs Mahony |
| Many roads to midwifery: the development of direct-entry midwifery degree courses will provide an extra way into this rewarding career. | Health | Chris Mahoney |
| Marshalling the arguments for community practice teachers. (community nursing) | Health | Caroline Simmonds |
| Masseur & patient.(a masseur and patient discuss the advantages of massage)(Interview) | Health | Eileen Fursland, Peter Mackereth, Chris Banks |
| Measurement of cholesterol and triglyceride. | Health | Chris Higgins |
| Meeting the health care needs of people with learning disabilities: there have long been gaps in health care provision for people with learning disabilities. But why are they continuing? | Health | Cynthia Thornton |
| Mental health education: where to now? (mental health nurse training; United Kingdom) | Health | Geoff Haines |
| Mental health promotion in high-risk groups: identifying vulnerable groups and providing effective interventions can prevent mental health problems. | Health | Amanda Sowden, Simon Gilbody, Mary Turner-Boutle |
| Methods of gastric decontamination. (includes details of equipment and procedures for gastric lavage) | Health | Sarah Thorsby |
| Methods of in vitro fertilisation. | Health | Catherine Prosser |
| Micronutrients for pregnancy, lactation and babies 0-1 year.(Know How Vitamins and Minerals, part 3) | Health | Lynda Robbins |
| Mind matters.(identifying people with mental health problems) | Health | Cathy Gale, Margaret Abboyi |
| Modest ambition.(a Liberal Party candidate in the 1997 United Kingdom election)(includes profile of a Liberal Democrat candidate, Clare Hamblen)(Is There a Nurse in the House?) | Health | |
| Monitoring PREP: an exercise in trust and accountability.(UK nurses' post-registration education and practice; Learning curve) | Health | Maggy Wallace |
| More than a silent witness. (nursing ethics; patient's request for information) | Health | Sue Parker |
| Multiple sclerosis: the role of the nurse. (Professional Development)(part 2) | Health | |
| Music and movement to exercise older people. | Health | Julie Sobczak |
| Mutual support: every member of the hospice team had a party to play in the care of a man with a fungating face wound. | Health | Sheila Saunders |
| Myasthenia gravis: the immune system, part 2. | Health | Peter Gardiner, Alison Stephens |
| Neurological disease: a nurse as patient.(chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy) | Health | Kim Hammill |
| Never too late.(When a Baby Dies) | Health | Peter Nelson, Chris Walters |
| New Labour new NHS: will the new Labour government cure the NHS or simply provide a line for a lingering drip feed? | Health | Roger Numas |
| Nice ad, shame about the reality.(recruitment drive for nurses; includes related article about the advertising campaign) | Health | Chris Mohony |
| Night ride. (community nursing; night shift)(Cover Story) | Health | Marion Grant Findlay |
| No butts.(methods to prevent children from smoking) | Health | Christine Shaw, Elaine Greaves |
| Not in with the in-crowd. (limited availability of Mirena intra-uterine contraceptive in United Kingdom) | Health | Kendra Inman |
| Not yet cut and dried.(treatment of surgical wounds)(Wound Care) | Health | Jill Galvani |
| Now, wash your hands please.(infection control) | Health | Christine Perry |
| Nuclear impact.(sufferers of cancer caused by nuclear radiation campaign for compensation)(Interview) | Health | Rael Martell |
| Nurse-led asthma clinic in an Asian community. | Health | Diana Oldam |
| Nurse or midwife? (direct-entry training for midwives) | Health | Mandy Robotham |
| Nurse practitioner and GP.(how a general practitioner and nurse work together) | Health | Lynda Lawley, Malcolm Rigler |
| Nurse practitioner service relieves pressure in A&E.(accident and emergency unit) | Health | sally Crux |
| Nurse prescribing by protocol.(Royal Marsden NHS Trust introduces protocols which allow nurses to prescribe drugs; includes details of a protocol) | Health | Douglas Guerrero, Jane Mallett, Sara Faithfull, Frances Rhys-Evans |
| Nurses at the dawn of the NHS.(National Health Service, UK) | Health | Chris Hart, Michael Walker |
| Nurses' experiences of continuing education. | Health | Rob Garbett, Pippa Bagnall, Mark Dilloway |
| Nutrition and diabetes. (Nutrition in Practice, part 8) | Health | Eleanor McGill |
| Nutrition and HIV infection.(Nutrition) | Health | Jim Sumpter |
| Nutrition and immune function. (Nutrition in Practice) (professional development worth 3 study hours) | Health | Olwyn M.R. Westwood |
| Objective analysis of a critical incident.(the importance of evaluating nursing practice) | Health | Jeanette Ramsden |
| Older and wiser, but does anyone care?(care of UK aged) | Health | Tricia Reid |
| Older man's burden: the expected increase in prostate disease means new methods of management are needed. | Health | Richard Simpson, Vanessa Webb |
| Older patients - who cares? | Health | Stephen O'Kell |
| Older people's views of continuing care. (value placed on nursing by patients in continuing care) | Health | Pauline Ford |
| Old flames, new desires.(nurses and doctors can work together to improve nurses' status) | Health | Neil Snee, Brian Salter |
| On the rebound.(value of reflective practice, includes case study) | Health | David Tarbrook |
| Organisation of asthma care: what difference does it make? | Health | Jacqueline Droogan, Katrina Bannigan |
| ... or honey pot? (benefits of clinical supervision for United Kingdom nurses and health visitors) | Health | Tony Butterworth |
| Out of the blues. (postnatal depression; health visitors' role) | Health | Anne Taylor |
| Out of the shadows. (night charge nurses; support group)(Cover Story) | Health | Trevor Hubbard |
| Pain signals. (severely learning disabled people) | Health | Jim Donovan |
| Palliative care and learning disabilities: the particular palliative care needs of people with learning disabilities are being overlooked. | Health | Irene Tuffrey-Wijne |
| Palliative care: nausea and vomiting. | Health | |
| Parenteral nutrition and in-line filtration.(implications of particulate contamination) | Health | Lynne Colagiovanni |
| Partnerships to promote a confident return to practice.(between the National Board for Scotland and the Royal College of Nursing Institute in Scotland) | Health | Alex Mathieson |
| Past caring.(potential decline of palliative care) | Health | Alison Barnes |
| Patient roles in decision-making: do patients want to be involved in decisions concerning their medical treatment? | Health | Ann-Louise Caress |
| Patients approve of pre-operative assessments. | Health | Bie Nio Ong |
| Patients' views of nurse prescribing.(United Kingdom) | Health | Karen Luker |
| Pay and concessions.(UK nurses) | Health | Eilish O'Regan |
| Pedal power.(nurses using bicycles to get to work; includes case studies) | Health | Colleen Shannon |
| People choose nursing for love, not money: nurses go into the profession because they care about people, not money, a situation that has barely changed in 16 years. | Health | John Collings |
| Perfect timing: the discomfort caused by catheter irritation can often be avoided by choosing the right time for removal. | Health | Michael Dean, Philip Downey, Jane Hayes |
| Peripheral parents.(parents whose children have mental health problems; includes related article on treatment) | Health | Susannah Strong |
| Persecution complex: the enigma of paranoid disorders. | Health | Phil Barker |
| Phantoms of the hospital. (pay policies of United Kingdom healthcare workers)(Industry Overview) | Health | Carol Thornley |
| Philosophy in nursing. | Health | Steven Edwards |
| Plain lessons from the Punjab. (medical and nursing conditions at a hospital in the Punjab, Pakistan) | Health | Sarah Coulling, Sally Krause, Ailish Cantwell-Jones |
| Platform for principles. (RCN congress) | Health | Betty Kershaw |
| Positive changes.(coping with a disruptive patient in a nursing home) | Health | Alison Bloom |
| Positive thinking. (United Kingdom nursing research rating) | Health | Richard Cook, Donna Mead, Laurie Moseley |
| Post-mortems: how and why they are carried out.(includes details of types of deaths which need a post mortem) | Health | Ken Campbell |
| Post-operative care of transplant patients. (by the clinician's assistant) | Health | Jane Edmunds, Rachael Gittins, Peter Mercer |
| Power of the union. (nursing students can benefit from union membership)(Students) | Health | Anthony Makepeace |
| Powers of judgement.(responsibilities of being elected onto the UKCC) | Health | Mary Uprichard |
| Preceptorship for RGNs in a small community hospital: if preceptorship schemes are to be successful, they need careful planning and implementation. (Learning Curve) | Health | Debbie Williams |
| Preparation makes perfect.(self-medication programmes for elderly hospital patients; details are given of the risk-assessment score tool) | Health | Dinah Fuller |
| PREP: the key to safe practice and to upholding standards. (continuing nurse education) | Health | Stuart Skyte |
| Prescription for pragmatism.(response to Hilary Wheat, Nursing Times, July 1997)(includes readers' letters) | Health | Michael Brookes |
| Pressure points. (anger management) | Health | Walter Brennan |
| Preventing violence on mental health wards. | Health | Jonathon Warren, Alan Beadsmoore |
| Prevention better than cure.(pneumococcal pneumonia; includes table of risk factors) | Health | Kilmeny Payling |
| Primary care and mental health problems: community nurses encounter many patients with psychological difficulties but are often uncertain how to deal with them. | Health | Peter Bower, Nicola Mead, LInda Gask |
| Primary care scheme aims for partnership in practice. (primary health care pilot schemes; United Kingdom)(includes examples of pilot schemes) | Health | Pat Cantrill |
| Primary concerns.(role of liaison nurses in the community) | Health | Pauline Sumner |
| Professional issues. (Rheumatology, part 3) (includes professional development assessment) | Health | |
| Promises, promises. (health plans for the NHS) | Health | |
| Promoting oral health in older people. | Health | Karen Hardcastle |
| Protocols and emergency nurse practitioners. (emergency nurse practitioners prescribe and administer drugs)(includes case studies) | Health | Julie Marshall |
| Providing children with health information. (information centre established as part of children's department at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, England) | Health | Lorna Patterson |
| Psychodynamics as an aid to clear thinking about patients. (use of psychodynamic model to study problems of mental health patients; includes case studies) | Health | Marcus Evans, Vicky Franks |
| Pulling power. (successful nursing leadership involves attracting followers) | Health | Nigel Northcott |
| Pulmonary embolus. (Systems and Diseases) | Health | Carolyn Mills |
| Puppets can do more than tell a story.(using puppets with the learning disabled) | Health | Derek Shirtliffe |
| Rationing: a dangerous game. (mixed views about rationing of services provided by United Kingdom National Health Service) | Health | Christine Hancock |
| Razor sharp memories.(nurse revisits a hospital where he used to work 25 years ago) | Health | Liam Clarke |
| Reactions to nurses' expanding practice: some see Scope of Professional Practice as the go-ahead for dumping doctors' tasks on nurses. Others view it as liberating. | Health | Sally Redfern |
| Reading the BANS.(British Artificial Nutrition Survey, includes details about British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) | Health | Anne Micklewright |
| Realm of the senses.(stimulating disabled) | Health | Moira Gillyon, Theresa Lambert |
| Recognising the smiles that cry for help.(interpreting smiles within a special care unit) | Health | Maureen Miller, Susan Dobson, Susan Dodsworth |
| Recording what you learn from. | Health | Liz Redfern |
| Recovery on a plate.(good nutrition helps aid wound recovery) | Health | Christine Guest, Susan Pearson |
| Regulation in a changing climate. (nursing regulation) | Health | Pat Darcy, Rita Lewis |
| Report sees nurses as lacking compassion. | Health | |
| Research and development in nursing. | Health | Elizabeth Scott |
| Rheumatoid arthritis and motherhood. (includes related article about the pregnancy of a woman with rheumatoid arthritis) | Health | Aileen Richardson, Jane Mawer |
| Rheumatology: the role of the nurse. (professional development article worth 5 study hours) | Health | |
| Riding the time bomb.(living with HIV infection) | Health | Jeremy Wright |
| Rights from the start.(children's rights) | Health | Christopher Middleton |
| Ringside view from A&E: telephone advice by nurses is becoming more widespread in the UK. | Health | Robert Crouch, Jeremy Dale |
| Road to rehabilitation: who is the new shadow health secretary? Just an old-fashioned Tory financier with little knowledge of the NHS. | Health | Pete Bell |
| Safety fears curb older patients' independence. | Health | |
| Satisfaction guaranteed. (patients with rheumatic diseases; satisfaction with nurse-led clinics) | Health | Jackie Hill |
| Save the children. (child abuse; prevention) | Health | Jane Naish, Christopher Cloke |
| School survey highlights teenage problem areas: discovering how young people see their lives was the starting point of work to reduce teenage suicide rates in one trust area. | Health | Carol Bowen |
| Screening for cervical cancer: what is a cervical smear test and why is it so important to have one regularly? | Health | Chris Higgisn |
| Seasons of grief.(When a Baby Dies) | Health | Rachel Hawley |
| Self-development for women in the NHS. (improving management skills) (includes related articles) | Health | Tracy McFall |
| Self-esteem and stress in mental health nurses. | Health | Jerome Carson |
| Send in the clones. (cloning; personal opinion) | Health | Steve Jones |
| Send in the clowns.(using laughter as a treatment in hospitals) | Health | Victoria Clayton |
| Sexual revolution. (people with learning disabilities; contraceptive services) | Health | Elizabeth Fletcher |
| Shadow of a doubt. (depressive illness) | Health | Ann Sullivan |
| Shared care recording in community care. | Health | Rogan Wolf |
| Should iodine be reconsidered?: antiseptics are often the subject of heated debate. | Health | Brian Gilchirst |
| Smiles belied an inner torment. (patient's suicide; mental health worker's personal narrative)(Suicide: Nurses' Tales special section)(Cover Story) | Health | David Duffy |
| Smoke alarm for mothers: the risks of foetal damage are greatly heightened if the mother smokes during pregnancy. But more than medical advice is needed to help women quit. | Health | Catherine Slattery |
| Someone to watch over me.(Cicely Saunders, founder of hospice care, includes related article about Ms Saunders) | Health | David Clark |
| Sore points. (pressure sore management; community care wheelchair users) | Health | Patsy Aldersea |
| Sore points sorted. (pressure sores) | Health | Ruth Hanson |
| Speaking out. (nursing professional body United Kingdom Central Council; election, low turnout)(Column) | Health | Mick Ashman |
| Specialist nurse support for clients with blood disorders. (thalassaemia and sickle cell syndrome services)(includes related article describing the syndromes and their genetic base) | Health | Collis Rochester-Peart |
| Spell check.(students with dyslexia, includes useful addresses) | Health | Robert Parry, Roger Cobley |
| Spicing it up. (nurse and author of erotica, Sue Bentley)(Interview) | Health | Bentley Morris |
| Spirit of the beehive. (propolis; healing properties)(includes a history of propolis usage) | Health | Joanna Trevelyan |
| Spirituality: the awakening. (spirituality in nursing) | Health | Steve Wright |
| Spot the carer. (support for carers in the community)(Special section on carers)(Cover Story) | Health | Gordon Evans |
| Spreading the load.(nurses who have mental health problems, includes case study) | Health | Lorna Butterworth |
| Spreading the word.(student support networks for nursing students) | Health | Jessica Cudmore |
| Stars of the night. (role of night nurse practitioners in New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, England) | Health | Susan Smith, Philippa Deacy |
| Stretched to ... breaking point.(case studies of nurses who experienced stress) | Health | |
| Structured GP liaison for substance misuse.(general practitioners working with drug and alcohol services) | Health | Lisa King |
| Suicide in later life: how to spot the risk factors. | Health | David Duffy |
| Supervised aftercare for clients with mental health problems. (includes case study of aftercare)(Industry Overview) | Health | Philippa Slinger |
| Supervision: how it works.(clinical supervision in practice) | Health | Christopher Bulmer |
| Support for patients with recent visual impairment. (psychological support) | Health | Helen Smith |
| Survival and beyond: challenges in the 1990s. (nursing education) | Health | Rachael Smith |
| Sweet nothings.(diabetic foods should be avoided) | Health | Debra Lake |
| Systematic reviews? (reviews of clinical research) | Health | Allyson Lipp |
| Systematic reviews: what do they involve?: good systematic reviews can be used to guide practice and assess the effectiveness of treatment. | Health | Katrina Bannigan, Jacqueline Droogan, Vikki Entwistle |
| Taking a humanistic approach to assessment. (assessment in the nursing profession) | Health | Tony Gillam |
| Taking research and development forward. (United Kingdom National Health Service research and development funds) | Health | Christine Beasley |
| Tale of the unexpected. (early menopause; personal narrative) | Health | Susan Thomas |
| Teaching and learning in lay-bys.(nurse takes time to reflect and evaluate his work) | Health | Tony Gillam |
| Teamwork: the final frontier in primary care. | Health | Rosemary Cook |
| Temporary transvenous cardiac pacing.(includes case study) | Health | Sue Cottle |
| The baby killer. (cot deaths are main cause of child deaths in UK) | Health | Joyce Epstein |
| The big wheeze. (asthma; controversy over diagnosis and drug treatment) | Health | Liz Hunt |
| The changing role of peri-operative nursing. | Health | Sue Vincent |
| The coffee professionals. (psychiatric nurses) | Health | |
| The cost of infertility.(includes two case studies about infertile women) | Health | Elizabeth Meerabeau |
| The dietary habits of young people. (includes guidelines on healthy eating) | Health | Glen Miles, Sulliman Eid |
| The difference day-care makes. (psychiatric care provided by the Gatehouse Assessment Centre, Warrington, England) (includes two case studies) (Safe as Houses, part 2) | Health | Carol Smith, Patricia Price, Lynne Abraham |
| The effects of multiple medication in the elderly: as the body's reaction to drugs alters with age it is important to review the risks in older patients on multiple medication. | Health | Gail McPherson, Ziba Rajaei-Dehkordi |
| The electronic campus. (remote learning on BSc Health Studies course at University of Paisley, Scotland)(includes entry requirements, tutors' experiences and students' views) | Health | Jenine Willis, Tim Duffy |
| The global challenge.(differences in the nursing profession across the world) | Health | Trevor Ride |
| The impact of new scope. (initial findings of research into the use of UKCC's Scope of Professional Practice 1992) | Health | Sandra Jowlett, Mark Peters, Hedi Reynolds, Jennifer Wilson-Barnett |
| The impact of Project 2000.(nursing training in the United Kingdom) | Health | Jill Maben, Jill Macleod Clark |
| The importance of good record-keeping. (community psychiatric nurses; patient records) | Health | Barry Brown, Tracey Hogg, Valerie Armstrong |
| The killing of Sister Plume.(demise of the traditional methods of patient care) | Health | Moya Davis |
| The management of fluid balance. (includes case study) | Health | Bernard Place, Debbie Field |
| The management of recurrent pilonidal sinus. | Health | Peter Moore, Lorraine Foster |
| The missing link.(community link nurse) | Health | Jane Crouch |
| The missing links between practice and theory. (nursing)(Learning Curve supplement.) | Health | Marion Clarke |
| The mixed message.(drug treatment for HIV patients) | Health | Martin Jones |
| The morale of the story. (United Kingdom health care reforms and nursing morale) | Health | Colin Martin, Gerry Bowman, Bernard Stone |
| The nutritional and nursing benefits of social mealtimes.(health benefits of being with patients at mealtimes) | Health | Richard Wykes |
| Theophylline in acute childhood asthma. | Health | Mark Petticrew |
| The role of the nurse. (Fractured Neck of Femur, part 2) (Professional Development article worth four study hours) | Health | |
| The route to true autonomous practice for midwives.(includes related personal narrative about an obstetric ward) | Health | Stella McKay |
| The search inside. (nursing; spiritual aspects) | Health | Jennifer Hall |
| The shape of things to come. (the voice of nurses in health care delivery) | Health | Deborah Hennessy |
| The stranger and I.(coping with postnatal depression; includes list of support agencies) | Health | Emma Scott |
| The ultimate gift: the number of transplants performed in the UK last year was 6% down on 1995 while the waiting list grew by 5%. (includes related articles) | Health | |
| The use of the pleuro-peritoneal shunt. (new technique for patients with recurrent pleural effusion) | Health | Edel McCall |
| The voices of reason. (therapy for schizophrenic patients hearing voices) | Health | David Batty |
| The way to take charge. (involvement of US nurses in policy making)(Industry Overview) | Health | Carol Jennings |
| The White Paper recognises that nurses have a critical contribution to make. (United Kingdom government's White Paper 'The New NHS')(Editorial) | Health | Margaret Jay |
| The write treatment. (leg ulcers; written information for patients) | Health | Beverly Wilson |
| The young ones. (children caring for relatives)(Special section on carers) | Health | Carolyn Syverson |
| Things are looking up. (experiences of nurses visiting eye surgery patients in their homes)(Nursing Times/3M National Nursing Awards) | Health | Julie Coughlan, Claire D'Arcy |
| Think ahead to minimize risks of midwifery care: obstetrics is responsible for a high proportion of damage claims. | Health | Josephine Williams |
| Throw down the gauntlet.(suing employers who ignore latex allergy risks, includes related articles) | Health | Daniel Bennett |
| Till death us do part. (poverty related ill health) | Health | Robert Hoskins, Trevor Lakey |
| Time of transition. (growing emphasis on intermediate care in United Kingdom) | Health | Barbara Vaughan, Linda Hanford |
| Times gone by: Mary Lewis worked for Nursing Times in the 1930s when nurses earnt less than 2 pounds sterling a week. | Health | Mary Lewis |
| Time to grasp the nettle. (health policy-making; nurse contribution)(Cover Story) | Health | Pippa Gough |
| Time to grieve. (cot deaths; nurses' support of parents) | Health | Johanna Foote |
| Tinkering is not enough.(United Kingdom health policy regarding mental health) | Health | Mick Carpenter |
| Too close for comfort.(sexual attraction between nurses and patients) | Health | Stephen Briant |
| Tools of the trade.(skills needed by charge nurses) | Health | Rob McSherry, John Browne |
| Tough questions... tougher answers: more than half thought patient care had deteriorated since the reforms came in, while only 17% saw an improvement. (patient care and NHS management) | Health | |
| Trading places.(two nurses swap jobs to get experience of other departments) | Health | Karen Mitchell, Sharon Mooney |
| Training midwives to help pregnant women stop smoking: all midwives should receive the necessary training to enable them to help pregnant women give up smoking. | Health | Jacqueline Dunkley |
| Travellers' ills. (practice nurses, appropriate travel health advice) | Health | Lynn Eaton |
| Travel light.(foreign study guide; includes article about coping with foreign languages) | Health | Philip Burnard |
| Treatment of constipation in older people. | Health | Mark Petticrew |
| Trickle of information: a gap in patient information led to a series of step-by-step leaflets for patients undergoing prostatectomy. | Health | Marguerite Smith |
| Try it, you might even like it.(nurses should become more politically active; includes details of previous campaigns) | Health | Gay Lee |
| Tuberculosis in homeless people. | Health | Anne Griffiths-Jones |
| Turn down the heat. (anger management of mental patients) | Health | Paul Rogers, Tina Gronow |
| Two sides to every story.(Bethlem Royal Hospital celebrations cause controversy) | Health | Anne Gulland, Clive Tabraham |
| Types of bone-marrow and stem-cell transplant. (includes related article on cord blood banks) | Health | Ken Campbell |
| Under surveillance. (wound infection monitoring) (Wound Care) | Health | Jacqueline Reilly |
| Unhappy eater: eating disorders are complex and varied conditions. | Health | Christine Green |
| Unions welcome demise of the internal market. (United Kingdom nursing unions welcome shift away from market-driven National Health Service) | Health | |
| United we make progress. (pressure sore management; team approach) | Health | Alison Parnham, Bridie Williams |
| Unity is strength in joint research project.(a UK hospital and National Health Service Trust work together) | Health | Chris Bassett, Robert McSherry, Mick Bond, Kate Mudge |
| Using airway pressure. (the advantages of continuous positive airway pressure) | Health | Bernard Place |
| Vegetarian nutrition for pregnant womem: a carefully thought-out vegetarian diet can provide all the nutrition a pregnant woman needs. | Health | Pauline Hudson, Maggie Evans |
| Volunteers combat social isolation older people: care of older people should be about psychological and social well-being as well as physical needs. (includes related article) | Health | Anne Jones |
| Watch the birdie.(diagnosing and treating bird-fancier's lung) | Health | Sarah Austin |
| Water births: client choice versus legal implications. (includes related article) | Health | Debra Street |
| Ways and means.(United Kingdom National Health Service; financial analysis of patient long-term care) | Health | Jef Smith |
| Weed control: one-time cannabis fan Christopher Luke argues that it must not be legalised for anything but proven therapeutic purposes. | Health | Christopher Luke |
| Westminster, here we come: against the odds.(ex-nurse campaigns to win a seat in the 1997 UK elections)(includes profile of Conservative candidate, Paul Watkins)(Is There a Nurse in the House?) | Health | |
| What do you pay to work? (financial burdens on United Kingdom nurses) | Health | Chris Buswell |
| What is meant by woman-centred care?: woman-centred care is a fashionable phrase. | Health | Lindsay Reid |
| When a baby dies.(the experience of a stillbirth)(When a Baby Dies) | Health | Caroline Davies |
| When healing is a pain.(treatment of leg ulcers)(Wound Care) | Health | Diane Joseph |
| When profits come first.(elderly care facilities suffer from financial constraints) | Health | John Sumpton |
| When the tables turn: you would never be patronising or rude or inconsiderate to people in your care. Or would you? | Health | Kay Sheldon |
| Who are we listening to? (mental health policy; contributors) | Health | John Hopton |
| Who's in charge here?(nurse discusses use of dispensing protocol) | Health | Quentin Sayer |
| Who wants to be a nurse? (nursing recruitment) | Health | Phil Revell |
| Why gender is a barrier to contraception advice.(men get less advice from health professionals; includes related item on nurses' attitudes.) | Health | Francesca Nelson |
| Winter crisis hits community posts. (United Kingdom National Health Service trusts reduce community nursing services) | Health | |
| Working together to care for children in the community. (joint efforts by community and hospital nurses in the United Kingdom). | Health | Kate Billingham, Elizabeth Perkins |
| Wound cleansing: guidelines for A&E staff. (accident and emergency) | Health | |
| You'll never work alone.(nursing students on placement in the community) | Health | Marilyn Pitcher |
| Young people at breaking point. (suicide risk amongst young people) | Health | Emma Borton |
| Your country needs you. (nursing recruitment campaigns) | Health | Alison Dunn, Patricia Collinson |
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