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Litigation still relatively uncommon

19 October 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

I read with interest the article on malpractice complaints (analysis September 29). However, I must take issue with the comments made by David Ashton, medical...

Managing information

24 May 1995

Nursing Standard

General article

In the UK, most universities and higher education establishments are linked to the Internet and are then hooked, in turn, to the Joint Academic Network, JANer and...

National service frameworks: what are they?

28 June 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes policy developments surrounding the creation of national service frameworks. The national service framework for mental health is used as an...

DySSSy goes soft

12 February 1992

Nursing Standard

News and features

With the aid of a grant from the Department of Health, the Royal College of Nursing Standards of Care Project, in conjunction with Wolfbane Cybernetics of Oxford, is...

Give it to us straight

02 September 1992

Nursing Standard

Letter

I read Joseph Winters’ article ‘Nursing’s towering babble’ (August 19) with interest. His unerring prose and wonderful turn of phrase certainly make the point.

Introduction to patient safety series

11 April 2012

Nursing Standard

A&S Science

THIS ARTICLE IS an introduction to a series of five articles outlining the relationship between patient safety and human factors. The focus of the series is to help...

Care pathways development and implementation

15 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Care pathways are increasingly being used in the UK as a tool for managing clinical processes and patient outcomes. This article describes some of the key elements...

Measuring the safety climate in NHS organizations

17 February 2010

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article discusses the differences between organisational culture and organisational climate, and provides an overview of the relationship between safety culture...

The nursing view of clinical governance

20 March 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article outlines the findings from three RCN discussion groups, which aimed to gain an understanding of how nurses were responding to clinical governance and to...

The importance of applying human factors to nursing practice

11 April 2012

Nursing Standard

A&S Science

The aim of this series is to introduce the topic of human factors and to show how it can be used in nursing practice on the ward and in nursing management, to...