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Will critical pathways replace the nursing process?

17 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Clinical management

Some writers allege that the step by step process approach to nursing individual people is inappropriate. The nursing process ignores the individuality of both the...

A systematic approach to complex wounds

07 April 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Complex wounds fill most nurses with the feeling of unmanageable dread. This article aims to dispel such fears by showing that the nurse, once equipped with the...

Trust-wide core care plans

15 October 1997

Nursing Standard

Clinical

Since its adoption from the US some 20 years ago, the nursing process and its essential component the individualised patient care plan, have been promoted as the...

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...

Critical pathways: an efficient way to manage care

11 August 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Liz Herring argues that care pathways provide a change in the traditional approach to planning and documenting care. She suggests that they provide opportunities for...

Is the Scope of Practice endangered by lack of vision?

31 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

When The Scope of Professional Practice was published in 1992 it was hailed as one of the UKCC’s most influential documents, with the potential to revolutionise...

Exploring the assessment process

05 May 2007

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Assessment is a fundamental nursing skill that underpins decisions about interventions and priorities in care delivery. Rather than the holistic, individualised...

The nursing process - a method of collecting evidence?

02 April 1997

Nursing Standard

Evidence-based nursing

User involvement in all aspects of mental health nursing is a much publicised concept, yet one regularly comes across difficulties in putting this concept into...

Understanding Practitioner Ethnography

01 January 2008

Nurse Researcher

A&S Science

The primary intention of this paper is to describe a qualitative research method, explore associated theoretical issues, and enable readers to identify key issues...

Concept analysis as a method of inquiry

01 January 2008

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

Mathieson, in the editorial of the first issue of Nurse Researcher, said that one purpose of the journal was to increase readers’ research awareness in terms “of...