title: Editorial.
abstract: SHOULD RAPISTS ever be restored to the register? Most people would say no. Indeed, over 90 per cent of nurses at this year's Royal College of Nursing Congress voted in favour of a resolution to ban nurses convicted of rape and other serious offences from nursing for life. The question is - do the proposals that the UKCC have devised and are most likely to be approved at this week's Council meeting go far enough in protecting patients and nursing's reputation?