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- Volume 20
- Learning by doing
- A cut above
- Jill of all trades
- All things being equal
- Positive spin
- Nursing in a war zone
- Anxious moments
- Wake up and learn
- On the road to recovery
- Memories are made for this
- Be brave, admit ignorance
- Ringing the changes
- Writing on the wire
- Hotline to health
- Improve your wobbling skills
- Headed the right way
- Too posh to floss?
- Hang on in there
- Confidence boost
- Be ready for your 15 minutes
- Beyond the emergency
- Face up to responsibility
- Movers and shakers
- Having it all
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- Worth the effort
- Volume 21
- Do your patients rate you?
- Pioneers of independence
- Star performance
- First step on career ladder
- Dealing with differences
- Carry on nursing
- Battle stations
- Blowing the whistle
- On the doorstep
- Nursing in New Delhi
- Agencies offer choice and variety
- The healing personality
- What makes a good nurse?
- Power of effective communication
- Where there's smoke…
- Information explosion
- When disaster strikes
- Time out for latecomers
- Solid grounding
- Recruitment in freefall
- Talking up the treatment
- Understanding learning
- Are you just the job?
- Intent on success
- Put value in evaluation
- New Zealand, new life
- A gentle art
- Drive for success
- Finding something to smile about
- No barriers to nursing
- Education in overdrive
- Finding something to smile about
- Broader horizons
- See beyond the illness
- Remember and learn
- Sight savers on wheels
- Shipshape to nurse
- Learn to play hardball
- A big adventure
- Battlefield
- Connecting with children
- See the client not the addiction
- Make your choices ‘green'
- Learning to assist
- Emergency medicine
- The good portfolio
- Raising a research profile
- My turning point
- Practical support for Africa
- Honing interprofessional links
- Keeping to the same old pathways
- Crossing the divide
- Freedom to learn
- Nurses need the law
- Expanding professional horizons
- Try some variety
- In the land of ‘cash and ‘carry' health care
- Take direct action
- Pride and prejudice
- An essential debriefing
- The nurse is not for burning
- Can you tell write from wrong?
- Safe in our hands
- Highly prized
- Designed for life
- Building for health
- Change of direction
- Listen and learn
- Eat, drink and be renewed
- Finnish school
- It will go swimmingly
- Model for delivery
- Don't take it personally
- How IT is shaping up
- Timeless nursing values
- Working together, learning together
- Loss of experience
- Prison placement
- Sounds of silence
- Defining moment
- Alternative nursing
- Shifting priorities
- To Russia with care
- Pulling power
- Here to help
- Not always greener
- Plotting your pathway
- How healthy is mental health?
- A hard day's night
- All together now
- Aide to recovery
- There for the taking
- Humbling experience
- Lead by example
- No problem too small
- Of pharoahs and sphinxes
- Volume 22
- Formative years
- At your service
- Interview tactics
- Take a look at tomorrow
- Out of our comfort zone
- Guiding lights
- Get a career boost
- Finding your way in the early days
- Volunteering can be a career investment
- Not living comfortably
- Get things in perspective
- Crisis can give you a better Christmas
- No Students for me
- Happy to stay in Lebanon
- Difficult conversations
- Nightingale’s work lives on
- The art of empathy
- Train to retain
- Enterprising moves
- Rules of engagement
- Off to a good start
- The nurse will see you
- Calm and collected
- Root and branch review of education
- Leaders at liverpool
- Stress busters
- All in a day's work
- Young minds
- Remote solutions
- The balance of power
- Lean and simple
- Power of the team
- Developing intelligent feelings
- Winning is a BIG boost
- Research power
- Opportunity knocks
- Just a minute
- Up to the challenge?
- Of course you can study
- Extension of powers
- Safety in numbers
- Help is just a phone call away
- Leading the way
- The business of community spirit
- Pass on the advice
- CPD
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- Student life
- Dealing with your first death
- The calmness and dignity of the last offices ritual impressed me
- Participating in a patient's end-of-life care was humbling
- Patient's Frank talk about death made me feel uncomfortable
- A staff nurse showed me how to respect patients who have died
- Helping parents to grieve was a privilege I will never forget
- I was shocked by My inability to support a grieving relative
- Patients were reassured when I expressed my distress at death
- My sister's loss taught me the hardest lesson of all
- The death of a child takes an adult nursing student by surprise
- Working with tsunami survivors taught me to listen to patients
- Dealing with your first death
- A patient's thanks gave student Victoria Snowdin confidence
- End of life care was exemplary
- At last, I found a way to connect with a lonely hospice patient
- Communication failure meant a patient did not die with dignity
- How I learned to be calm and unafraid in the face of death
- I was deeply moved by the trust a dying patient showed in me
- Life on the wards
- It was easy to misinterpret a loving wife's brusque manner
- I cannot forget the patient who was turned away
- Needless communication error compromised a patient's care
- I learned to set aside my own feelings on abortion
- Families benefit from getting involved with personal care
- Simple encouragement was all a client needed to get moving
- I gained personal experience of the impact of arthritis
- Clients assessed my care-giving skills in a placement interview
- Try to understand the patient's feelings about being looked at
- A gentle art
- I lacked confidence to speak up for my patient's best interests
- An orthopaedic placement helped heal my fear of cancer
- Learn to play hardball
- Tube feeding excludes patients from some basic social rituals
- Blood sugar spiked when drugs were given at the wrong time
- A non-accidental injury threw light on postnatal depression
- A family death highlights the importance of communication
- I felt guilty when I could not help a client hearing voices
- I wish I had felt more confident to use my life-saving skills
- Insensitive nursing marred a patient's last hours of life
- If you feel uncomfortable about a task, trust your instincts
- ‘They were not bad nurses, but the patient was overlooked'
- Shamiso Simango found a simple solution to a patient's anxiety
- Take time to preserve patient dignity
- Sharing information about a patient's past can be useful
- In self-defence
- Efficient case conference felt a bit like child abuse
- When truth hurts
- Reluctance to interfere should not get in the way of good care
- Being with a patient as he or she dies is a unique experience
- A language barrier isolates patients and can be harmful
- In the dock
- Hospital can be a comfort zone too
- A mature approach
- Pure theatre for nursing students
- Fighting back
- Health in relation to lifestyle and health promotion
- Keeping patient's informed
- Clear communication
- Nursing can be a rollercoaster ride
- Exposure to an IV drug abuser's blood
- Edward Davies realised he knew a patient in his care
- From breast cancer diagnosis to an Advanced Diploma
- An experience I will never forget
- Scared and shaken but proud
- Informed consent
- Individualistic approach to care
- Katie Hillier learned that all nursing can involve palliative care
- The value of building relationships
- A first encounter
- Visiting a terminally ill patient
- Building communication and interpersonal skills
- Support for family members
- A nurse's therapeutic relationship
- Perceptions of mental health nursing
- A patient's right to know?
- Losing sight of patients as people
- An ethical dilemma
- Learning professionalism and responsibility
- Person-centred care
- Was I really cut out for nursing?
- A patient's choice must be respected
- Taking time to talk
- An enlightening experience
- Highs and lows
- Student Steven Edmunds helped a patient through a painful procedure
- Student Maureen Taiwo Alabi comforts a woman in pain
- Out of our comfort zone
- Painful lesson in how to deal with patients’ aggression
- Assisting with births helped me to empathise with mothers
- I had to lie to a patient and it ruined our relationship
- My patient needed a chance to voice his fear of falling
- My outburst upset colleagues, but I expect high standards
- Relatives can appear uncaring but they still need our support
- A close shave brings home the importance of identity checks
- Starting out
- I saw a patient die in pain after it took too long to get his drugs
- The day I learned to be wary of leaving dad holding the baby
- I learned that dignity is about listening to the patient
- Social pressure was to blame
- It is only natural to show your emotions and cry sometimes
- Assisting in the delivery room can be tense and emotional
- Making the best of your placements
- Picnic mishap gave me a lesson in preparing for the unexpected
- Be confident in your skills and speak up for your patients
- Listen to your conscience when you work under supervision
- Dealing with differences
- Blowing the whistle
- Talking about his family life calms a patient with dementia
- Time out for latecomers
- Keep your chin up, work hard, tell the truth and enjoy it all
- Placement visits revealed the realities of the sex trade
- Emergency medicine
- Let's stop apologising and be proud of our student status
- Honing interprofessional links
- Learning to survive the world outside of my comfort zone
- Try some variety
- Take direct action
- Starting out
- Keep in touch
- Lessons in how to get the best from a methodical assessment
- Be persistent in the search for dementia patients' identity
- I was deeply affected by a dying patient who put on a brave face
- Really listening to a patient can make all the difference
- Nurses have a right to make moral judgements at work
- Students on placements must never forget they are guests
- We must always challenge bad practice, even from a consultant
- Be the nurse you want to be by refusing to kowtow to bullies
- A GP showed me how to deal with a violent and aggressive patient
- I learned about the importance of balancing ethical principles
- Good communication can start with an offer of a cup of tea
- A hospice placement gave me experience of ‘real nursing'
- Happy to be a softie if it means remaining true to my values
- Diagnosis without explanation can cause needless anxiety
- Last hours
- Patients and staff benefit from ‘human touch' nursing care
- A poor hospital referral puts patient's welfare in jeopardy
- Good communication takes account of patient's abilities
- A day centre placement showed me a different side to nursing
- Don't overlook the importance of communication with patients
- Witnessing ‘barbaric' seclusion provided impetus for reflection
- Discussing a patient's fear of falling could prove helpful
- Feeling valued
- Some people may prefer not to be reminded of the ‘old days'
- There is so much to learn, but it is sinking in – gradually
- People told me I could never be a nurse, but they were wrong
- Becoming a person again
- How one simple sentence gave my patient false hope
- I learned to see a person behind the mental illness
- Second nature
- Off target
- Good practice
- The mother load
- The end is in sight
- Real life is not like holby city, but i realise that I did my best
- Tips for success
- Finding time to talk to a patient can help reduce their anxiety
- An appreciative patient showed me the importance of trust
- Happy returns
- Getting to know each other starts with exchanging names
- Feeling the squeeze
- No time for staff tiffs when patients need our care
- Make a link
- Do mental health patients get the services they deserve?
- Learn side by side
- Added value?
- First–time nerves
- We are all responsible
- When it all goes wrong
- Student Michelle Dunn learned to keep an open mind
- Culture shock
- Joanne Hardy learned that sometimes the patient just wants a hug
- Student Evie Jackson learned from a difficult patient encounter
- Student Ian Simpson's eyes were opened in the community
- Placement prejudice
- Find positive learning from negative experiences of care
- Spread your wings
- My first placement taught me so much
- Good placement guide
- A bank nurse showed me how to trust my own judgement
- The final placement
- Mentoring
- I am thankful that healthcare assistants are there to help
- A good mentor has helped me to realise my potential as a nurse
- Mentor's poor example made me examine my own attitudes
- I should have had the confidence to speak for unconscious patient
- Straight talk cleared the air with mentor
- Loss of confidence
- Key to learning
- Mutual benefit
- Study skills
- Recruitment in freefall
- Understanding learning
- Are you just the job?
- Put value in evaluation
- Education in overdrive
- Remember and learn
- Can you tell write from wrong?
- Using the internet as a learning tool
- Testing time
- How to ask an intelligent question
- Word perfect
- The cost of reading
- On course for success
- Crunch the numbers
- A test of fitness
- Why be a nurse?
- At your service
- The healing personality
- What makes a good nurse?
- No barriers to nursing
- See beyond the illness
- Swift response to suspected diabetes helped save my sister
- A big adventure
- See the client not the addiction
- My turning point
- I refused to let Scoliosis stop me from following my dream
- Battling a stomach bug gives me an idea of how patients feel
- Why be a nurse?
- Student Julie Meredith learned to question her own beliefs
- Transfer made easier
- The truth about failure
- When I came face to face with the ‘too posh to wash' nurses
- Caring for dad helped me realise I was ready to nurse
- Exclusion from the clique left me scared and demoralised
- Nursing the planet
- Older and wiser
- How to take the flak
- Make a difference
- Steps toward recovery
- Work/life balance
- Dealing with your first death
