I was fully aware of the facilities available in the approval nodelet. My intention was for NN to give a tabular display of the status of all newest nodes.

The second paragraph makes me inclined to suggest adding the same information to the user search results. My thoughts are that of an initiate, just created her ID, posted a question to SoPW, but where is it?

The intelligent novice may go straight to Newest Nodes, or failing this, try the link on her ID, see that she has 1 writeup, click on it and find out that the question is awaiting approval.

The layout of Newest Nodes and User Search results may possibly necessitate truncating or wrapping long node titles.