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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...

Practice development in psychiatric and mental health nursing: part three

01 April 1999

Mental Health Practice

Feature

In this final article in a three-part series, we describe some of the project work being supervised by members of the Mental Health Programme Practice Development...

Practice development in healthcare service reform

22 April 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

This article examines the proposals contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review final report and considers how clinical teams can implement them in...

Practice development in mental health nursing

01 December 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This paper, the first in a series of three, focuses on practice development in psychiatric and mental health nursing. New practice development roles are constantly...

Practice development in mental health nursing: part two

01 February 1999

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article follows Cutcliffe et al’s article (MHP, 2, 5, 27-31), which outlined some general issues of practice development and examined its evolution in the...

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...

Essence of care: a collaborative audit

01 March 2008

Nursing Management

Leadership

BEFORE THE Department of Health launched the Essence of Care initiative in 2001, nurses in management knew from public feedback that patients were concerned that...

Clinical guidelines: development and use

17 May 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical quality assurance

This article aims to describe what clinical guidelines are and to outline their potential in improving the quality of care received by patients. The authors also...

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...

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...