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The RCN strategy on clinical guidelines

11 November 1998

Nursing Standard

Reports

There is increasing interest in the potential of clinical guidelines to improve the quality of health care. In this report, Lesley Duff outlines areas of activity...

Validity essential to clinical guidelines

17 July 1996

Nursing Standard

Letter

I read the letter, ‘Guidelines need systematic research’(July 3), with concern.

Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice

17 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

Many nurses and other practising health professionals want to know more about clinical effectiveness but are deterred by the apparent confusion surrounding the...

Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

Practising health professionals want to know more about clinical guidelines. However, as with clinical effectiveness, the apparent confusion surrounding the...

Identifying priorities for national clinical guidelines

30 June 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The process by which clinical areas were prioritised for the formulation of national clinical guidelines, using a model devised by the RCN, is outlined in this...

Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice

17 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In the first of two articles, the authors address some of the most common questions asked by practitioners about clinical effectiveness. The second article, on...

Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In a companion article to their paper on clinical effectiveness (McClarey and Duff 1997), the authors discuss the issues surrounding clinical guidelines. How they...

Implementation of nutrition standards for older adults

21 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article reports on a study exploring the process of implementing nationally developed standards for the nutritional care of older adults. In particular, the...

Clinical guideline on acute pain in children

23 June 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

INFANTS, CHILDREN and adolescents experience pain, and often describe procedures they undergo as the most distressing aspect of disease or hospitalisation. Pain that...

Philosophy of care: recognition and assessment of pain in children

01 July 1999

Paediatric Nursing

Pain assessment clinical

Hospitalised children often undergo painful procedures which they describe as the most distressing part of disease or a hospital stay (Jay et al 1983, Broome et al...