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Using a simulated learning environment

07 May 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Stilwell is a simulation environment designed for postgraduate emergency care staff. It encourages participants to make less obvious diagnoses of patients who have...

Farm accidents: Their causes and the development of a nurse led accident prevention strategy

01 November 2000

Emergency Nurse

A&S Science

The work that is reported in this paper is part of a nurse practitioner-led farmers’ health project in south Cumbria and north Lancashire. However, the methods used...

NPs: Why are they so successful?

01 August 1995

Emergency Nurse

Feature

It is no coincidence that interest in the nurse practitioner (NP) role lias expanded dramatically since the publication of the Scope of Practice (1). 'Hie nature of...

Barriers to research utilisation and evidence based practice in A&E nursing

01 May 1997

Emergency Nurse

Research utilisation

Nurses have long been urged to base their care upon research findings rather than ritual and tradition (Walsh and Ford 1989). There has been a welcome and rapid...

the Emerging role of the nurse practitioner in A&E

01 March 2000

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The nurse practitioner (NP) concept differs most obviously from conventional nursing practice in that the NP sees patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed...

Accountability and intuition: justifying nursing practice

26 February 1997

Nursing Standard

Debate

Accepting that the concept of accountability should be central to each nurse's practice signalled a new maturity in the nursing profession, and it was highlighted...

Commentary: nurse practitioner role should be explicitly defined

15 January 1997

Nursing Standard

Accident and emergency

This commentary marks the start of a new initiative in Nursing Standard to help nurses understand and interpret the relevance of the research we publish. The...

Perceptions of barriers to implementing research

29 January 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

This article reports the findings of a study of community nurses to determine their perceptions of barriers to the implementation of research findings in practice. A...

Developing practice through networking

25 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Reports

In the 1980s, nursing development units (NDUs) emerged as a response to the challenge to nurses to innovate. They continue to expand in number and many new ideas...

Nurses and nurse practitioners 1: priorities in care

03 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & science research