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Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

Practising health professionals want to know more about clinical guidelines. However, as with clinical effectiveness, the apparent confusion surrounding the...

Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In a companion article to their paper on clinical effectiveness (McClarey and Duff 1997), the authors discuss the issues surrounding clinical guidelines. How they...

Interpretation of competence in student assessment

07 January 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (2008a) Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice have been strengthened, with an expectation that mentors develop...

A Delphi study examining standards for patient handling

28 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article presents the findings of a local initiative to develop practice standards for patient handling in a specialist orthopaedic hospital. The changes in...

SHARP practice: joining up care giving and record keeping

01 December 2003

Nursing Older People

General

Registered nurses (RNs) and care assistants (CAs) do not enjoy or value record keeping. The reason usually given for poor records is lack of time but this can be an...

Providing culturally competent health services for ethnic minorities

14 August 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article discusses the findings of a scholarship project aimed at gaining an understanding of the health needs of African and Caribbean older people and...

International collaboration in genetic nursing

16 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Collaboration across national borders presents unique challenges and opportunities. A desire to expand your understanding of healthcare issues, and a willingness to...

Developing standards of care to meet older patients’ needs

07 February 1996

Nursing Standard

Standards of care

A ‘quality service’ has been described by Ovretveit (1992) as one which ‘gives individuals what they need as well as what they want and does so at the lowest cost’....

Better documentation improves patient care

03 December 2014

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article is the sixth in a series of seven describing the journey within NHS Lanarkshire in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland to support...