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Jane Bates
Jane Bates works in outpatients in Hampshire.
But once a year
Jane Bates sings songs of appraisal
Drug trials
I once lost half a day of my precious holiday after I mistakenly swallowed a mega-drowsy antihistamine that I usually only take at night.
Take the blame
Jane Bates resents master manipulators.
A warm ending
Jane Bates laments the end of the drinks round.
History lesson
A recent public health exhibition in London featured a map of Soho, where my ancestors lived in the mid-1800s.
Learning curve
We learn from mistakes, writes Jane Bates
None too clever
I am sure many of you are fans of the BBC TV programme 'Call the Midwife'. As a Londoner, I remember that world from my childhood, when I was taught by nuns as kind and gentle as those in Nonnatus House.
Full circle
There has been no response to the Francis report as passionately debated as the issue of nurse training. It gets everyone hot under the collar.
True goodness
It was though tears that I read about the death of Susan Pembrey in a recent issue of Nursing Standard.
Think about it
'We nurses are toothless,' I ranted to another NHS employee. I was so fired up with indignation that I had forgotten he was my dentist.
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.