Monitoring quality and standards
Sheila Rodgers Charge Nurse, Western General Hospital. Edinburgh when this article was written. She is now Lecturer in Nursing. University of Edinburgh
Sheila MacBride Charge Nurse, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
The development of a combined standards!quality assurance system is described in this article. Drawing on the work of Goldstone et al and Kitson, the authors discuss the formulation and implementation of a package of core standards for use in a group of hospitals. Heightened awareness of clinical nurses about standards and quality issues and collaborative ventures between wards are identified as benefits of the system.
Nursing Standard.
6, 3, 30-32.
doi: 10.7748/ns.6.3.30.s44
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