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Managing performance

01 April 2008

Nursing Management

Leadership

NURSING IS and should be seen as an honourable profession. Nurses’ involvement in the most intimate moments of people’s lives, such as birth, illness and death, is a...

Measuring performance

01 June 2008

Nursing Management

Leadership

IN A CHANGING NHS, where the emphasis of healthcare provision is increasingly on patient choice, organisations must offer services of proven quality that are the...

People with learning disabilities and students put on a performance

30 March 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Social care provider Certitude, which offers personalised support to more than 1,300 people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs across London,...

Using a performance management framework to improve quality

26 September 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

In light of Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review final report, which emphasises the need for clinical services to be effective and good quality, this article describes...

Accountability in the NHS

28 December 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

In the first three articles in this series, we looked at the various components of good governance and how nurse leaders can create cultures and systems to promote...

Robust data enables managers to promote good practice

26 November 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

This is the third in a series of articles examining the components of good corporate governance. The effective and efficient use of information and sources of...

The team wheel

01 February 2007

Nursing Management

Leadership

EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK is essential to the planning and delivery of health and social care services (Onyett 2003, West 2004). Consequently, attention is being...

Poor performance: managing the first informal stages

01 May 2013

Primary Health Care

CPD

Effective staff management is a vital aspect of the team leader role; it ensures high standards of care, good communication and smooth team working. High profile...

Lessons from times square

15 August 2006

Nursing Standard

Feature

A system of performance management based on the one used by the New York Police Department has been introduced into a Kent trust. Now the hospital’s matrons are...

Major trauma training for emergency nurses

02 April 2014

Emergency Nurse

Art & Science

The Midlands regional trauma network was established in March 2012 to improve and standardise the care offered to patients with major trauma. This article discusses...