Elaine Hemingway looks at why and how nurses fail to fulfil their role in the provision of spritual care.
Elaine Hemingway BSC (Hons), NNEB, RGN, Dip in Prof. Studies in District Nursing is a District Nursing Sister, Bay Community NHS Trust, South Cumbria
Article accepted for publication: March 2000
Pat Owen discusses the history of public health and asks if community nurse are up to the challenge of initiating and implementing public health policy
{Pat Owen RGN, RHV, Cert.Ed (FE), BSc is a Senior Lecturer, Primary Care Division, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Wolverhampton.
Article accepted for publication: January 2000.
Joan Cochrane examines the right of every patient to receive care in a microbiologically safe environment and discusses the need for nurses to apply infection control principles into their daily clinical practice
Joan M. Cochrane MSc, RGN, RM, NDN (Cert), Adv Dip. Health Sciences (IMT) is Senior Infection Control Nurse HIV, Newcastle City Health NHS Trust.
Article accepted for publication: January 2000
Deborah Ward discussed the issue of infection control and the challenge faced by community nurses
Deborah Ward RGN, BSc (Hons) is a Senior Nurse, Infection Control, Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust
Article accepted for publication: March 2000
Hilary Duffin outlines the individual methods and advantages of clean intermittent catheterisation - a much underused technique in bladder control management
Hilary Duffin BSc (Hons), RN DPSN is a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Continence Clinic, Leicester General Hospital NHS Trust
Article accepted for publication: December 1999
Winifred Farrell discusses a framework for analysing health care needs and how these influence and impact on the delivery of leg ulcer care
Winifred Farrell RGN, RSCN, Cert.Ed., B.Ed (Hons), M.Ed, Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, School of Human and Health Sciences, Dept of Health, Social Work & Community Studies.
Article accepted for publication: May 2000
