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Nurses’ attitudes to the extension and expansion of their clinical roles

08 September 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Nurses are increasingly being asked to extend or expand their traditional roles, often for reasons other than their own professional development. This study, across...

New ways of working for psychiatrists: implications for nursing

01 March 2005

Mental Health Practice

Multidisciplinary teams

The National Service Framework for mental health (DoH 1999) paved the way for enormous changes in services for people with mental health problems. In addition, staff...

Powerful relationships

01 May 2005

Nursing Management

General

POWER IS ALL AROUND us. It operates between individuals or through social and political groups and institutions.

Redesigning patient services

01 May 2006

Nursing Management

Leadership

THE ORIGINS of this project are in a problem raised at North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, when a lack of high dependency unit (HDU), or level 2, beds led to...

Assessing older people – contemporary issues for nursing

01 December 2000

Nursing Older People

General

Contemporary policy places considerable importance on assessment (DoH 2000a,b), with an increasing focus on assessment of nursing needs (Challis et al 1996, RCN...

Achieving interprofessional working in mental health

01 October 1997

Nursing Standard

Education

Service users, such as clients of mental health services, have specific needs which require a multidisciplinary team approach to care planning and delivery (Couchman...

Integrated nursing teams in primary care

16 August 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background This article looks at different models of integrated nursing and more traditional models of community nursing in primary care, as well as examining models...

Interprofessional working: opportunities and challenges

23 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Interprofessional working is a concept that has an impact on nursing and the care delivered. However, this article argues that it continues to remain a poorly...

Setting up a nurse practitioner service

20 November 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In this article the authors argue that nurse practitioners must undergo a formal course of education that teaches them to be politically and professionally aware,...

Shared education for professionals in child care

01 September 2008

Paediatric Nursing

Education

A shared foundation year at the start of educational pathways for professionals and others who will be working with children has two main objectives: acquisition of...