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Getting the balance

24 August 2004

Nursing Standard

Features

PATIENT AND user involvement in health care is a central part of government policy as a means of shaping and evaluating services. On an orthopaedic ward at...

Discharge planning

16 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Two audits were conducted by a small team of nurses to measure the effectiveness of discharge management and planning in a four-ward orthopaedic and...

Streamlining pre-operative assessment in orthopaedics

23 September 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The author was appointed to create a ‘pre-admission clerking system’ in an orthopaedic department. The management objective was to reduce the numbers of patients...

Implementing the productive ward management programme

06 April 2010

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes how the introduction of the productive ward programme has empowered one ward team to work collaboratively to introduce sustainable change....