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Quality and the new NHS

01 May 2000

Emergency Nurse

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to increases nurses’ awareness of issues and methods involved in quality improvement in a healthcare...

Insider/outsider partnerships in an ethnographic study of shared governance

22 March 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The benefits of research being undertaken by more than one researcher cannot be underestimated. Having one researcher with intimate knowledge of the organisation and...

Quality and the new NHS

08 September 1999

Nursing Standard

CPD

In this article, the authors explore the concept of quality in health care and examine in detail some of the methods currently being used to assess and improve it.

Clinical governance for nurses: smoking cessation interventions

20 June 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To raise clinical governance issues by drawing on a Health Education Authority-sponsored review of the style, form and effect of a smoking cessation service in...

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...

Quality and the new NHS

01 June 2000

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to increases nurses’ awareness of issues and methods involved in quality improvement in a healthcare...

Quality and the new NHS

01 June 2000

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

In this article, the authors explore the concept of quality in health care and examine in detail some of the methods currently being used to assess and improve it.

An evaluation of the RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme: part 1

06 December 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim The RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme was set up in 1995 and sought to identify how clinical nurses in recognised leadership positions could improve...

Improving ward management

24 January 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an audit process–the nursing annual audit review -to improve nursing management systems on...

Improving standards of care for patients: a pilot project

26 August 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article demonstrates how one of England’s largest primary care trusts developed, piloted and evaluated a quality improvement tool – the quality framework – to...