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Integrated care management

01 November 1997

Nursing Management

Integrated care management

A Service with Ambitions (DoH 1996) clearly states ‘the need for a high quality, integrated service, organised and run around the health needs of individual...

Comparing roles: senior nurses and modern matrons

01 May 2007

Nursing Management

Leadership

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP is key to the delivery of better healthcare services for the people of Scotland (Scottish Executive Health Department 2005).

Using systematic reviews

01 November 2007

Nursing Management

Leadership

THE SPEED at which systematic reviews have been introduced into the decision making processes of healthcare services has been dramatic.

Determining guiding principles for evidence-based practice

01 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article traces the history of evidence-based practice (EBP), outlines current issues and reviews the literature on the key concepts, features and outcomes. The...

Clinical supervision: mental health nurses’ views

01 December 1998

Mental Health Practice

Clinical

Though clinical supervision is currently being widely debated in mental health nursing (Department of Health 1994a, Ritchie et al 1994, UKCC 1996), it remains a...

The implementation of clinical practice guidelines for venous leg ulcers

08 December 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

IN 1997 THE NHS Executive announced funding for a series of sentinel audit projects; sentinel because the topics were to be of importance to the NHS. The project...

The management of venous leg ulcers: a project to improve care

11 April 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes a two-year project to develop resources for the improvement of leg ulcer management. It was felt that an audit tool and complementary...

Flexible learning to support safe, person-centred care

26 February 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

Effective Practitioner is an educational initiative that supports nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to deliver person-centred, safe and effective...