Suzanne Clarke discusses the use of silver in modern wound management programmes.
Suzanne Clarke RGN, Dip Nursing is a Community Nurse with Dudley Priority NHS Community Trust, Midlands.
Article accepted for publication July 2002.
Chris Buswell discusses the Public Interest Disclosure Act and the need for nurses to ensure their patient’s safety and health needs are met.
Chris Buswell, RGN is a Staff Nurse in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Article accepted for publication: April 2002
In the first of two articles, Barbara Green reflects on life in the ’sylums of the ’60s, and gives a humorous and sometimes tragic account of her training days as a student psychiatric nurse.
Barbara Green RGN, SCM, DN Cert is a District Nurse, Calderdale Primary Care Trust, West Yorkshire. Article accepted for publication April 2002.
Henry Ekpe discusses the role of nurses in the prevention of alcohol abuse.
Henry Idiong Ekpe BSc (Hons), DPSN, RN, RMN, MRSH is a Forensic Mental Health Nurse & Research Student, Behaviour Modification Unit, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. Article accepted for publication: July 2002
Janet Knott reviews the literature and identifies a lack of clarity within both the health sector and social services sector as to whose role it is to provide basic footcare services to older people living in the community.
Acknowledgement: The author is grateful to Dr Christine Smith, Senior Nurse Research (at the time of writing), Carmarthenshire NHS Trust for guidance and support with proof reading this article.
Deborah Stevens discusses the position of the teacher within practice and the opportunities and threats inherent in the role of the practice educator in specialist community practice.
Deborah Stevens BSc (Hons), PG Dip Ed (Health & Social Care), RGN, DN Cert is a Primary Care Educator, Guildford & Waverley PCT.
Article accepted for publication: October 2002
Annemarie Brown discusses why some patients do not appear to desire complete healing of leg ulceration.
This article was written in part fulfilment of an MSc in Tissue Viability, University of Hertfordshire
Annemarie Brown BSc (Hons), RGN is a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist, Southend PCT & Castlepoint & Rochford PCT. Article accepted for publication: July 2002
