Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Para-suicide: a cause for nursing concern
The government has recently highlighted the tragedy of lives lost through suicide,...
Clinical practice and management
Next week, Nursing Standard, Smith and Nephew Medical and the Royal College of...
Analysing mandatory continuing education
The proposal for mandatory continuing education in the form of five study days...
Helping midwives in developing countries
The author describes a World Health Organization backed educational initiative for...
Nurses’ responses to PREP: a short study
Nurses attending information sessions on the UKCC’s Post-registration Education and...
Cardiac rehabilitation
The Coronary Rehabilitation Programme at Leicester General Hospital has operated...
Uncertainty on career prospects
More effort is required to increase provision of, and ease access to, conversion...
Leading from the front
The prospect of facilitating professional development for about 3,000 nurses may...
Supporting bereaved relatives in A&E
The development of a support nurse system for the care of bereaved relatives in an...
Theory and practice of isolation nursing
Infection is a common problem in hospitals, with approximately 10 per cent of...
Coping with dying and bereavement
This article explores the likely processes which patients and families undergo from...
Continuing education: who meets the cost?
Since the UKCC issued its first proposals for mandatory continuing education for...
Developing a career through nursing
Nurses now seek planned career advancement patterns, as opposed to a series of...
Doctors and nurses: a personal view
During the first half of the twentieth century, is nursing was dearly subservient...
NHS Trusts and equal opportunities
The Equal Opportunities Commission (HOC) report on women’s employment in the...
Community education and practice
A 'positive blueprint for change' is how the United Kingdom Central...
Assessment of prior experiential learning
The potential benefits of receiving academic accreditation for prior experiential...
Continuing education in an NDU
This article features the experiences of a group of intensive care nurses in their...