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Integrating services to improve patient care

09 June 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Over the past few years there has been an increasing need to reconfigure emergency care service delivery so that patients can be seen and treated as quickly as...

Nursing involvement in a practice development and research unit

08 September 2010

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Cancer nursing practice represents a diverse field of knowledge and enquiry, where practice is informed through experiential knowledge, specialist skills and a deep...

Developing a nurse-led clinic for patients enrolled in clinical trials

08 April 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Successful expansion of local cancer clinical trials portfolios over the past ten years has resulted in increasing demands on clinical staff and resources available...

Developing a clinic to meet patients’ pre-operative needs

10 April 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

A&S Science

This article describes a practice development project at a gynaecological oncology centre aimed at improving patient experience before admission for major pelvic...

Establishing clinical rotation programmes in cancer and palliative care nursing

01 February 2004

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The establishment of rotational nursing posts for practitioners wishing to develop skills in cancer and palliative care nursing is one possible answer to the...

Staff attitudes towards people with borderline personality disorder

10 May 2016

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

This article explores and analyses the negative attitudes adopted by some staff towards patients living with borderline personality disorder from the perspective of...

road to success: recognising service users’ contribution to the development of practice

01 May 2007

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Over the last 25 years there has been growing emphasis placed on the rights of people who have a learning disability, the impact of historical modes of care, and the...

Implementing positive and proactive care

10 December 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

In this article we discuss the Department of Health’s Positive and Safe initiative in the context of one Inner London mental health trust. The goal of the initiative...

Open AccessGraphic facilitation as a novel approach to practice development

10 October 2017

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

The active participation of staff from the outset of any health service or practice improvement process ensures they are more likely to become engaged in the...

Nurse preceptorship in a high secure unit

01 March 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

Preceptorship in nursing has been with us for some time. In the early 1980s it was described as an ‘individual teaching and learning method, in which each student is...