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How wireless technology can work for service users

28 May 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

More than two years ago, NHS Ayrshire and Arran introduced a wireless system for recording patient details and views. As a result, nurses can spend the time they...

Patient-held oncology records

20 May 1998

Nursing Standard

Clinical

The Professorial Medical Oncology Unit at St James’s Hospital in Leeds was established in 1989. As the patient population has grown, many medical, nursing and other...

Shared record keeping in the multidisciplinary team

20 March 1996

Nursing Standard

Elderly care

Major advances in health care leading to complex treatments and prolonged life expectancy have resulted in increased pressure within the NHS to provide a more...

Providing support for the Informing Healthcare programme in Wales

05 March 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes the establishment of an all-Wales nursing and midwifery steering group to support the activities of the Welsh information, communication and...

Computers in nursing: patient data at the point of care

01 June 2009

Primary Health Care

Information technology

Healthcare organisations have been slow to adopt information technology, but the NHS has been charged with introducing central electronic patient care records. A key...

Staff use of acronyms in electronic care records

01 July 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

The increased use of acronyms and abbreviations by practitioners in mental health services challenges guidance that warns against using unnecessary jargon in...

The summary care record explained

28 October 2012

Primary Health Care

A&S Science

An electronic record is being introduced for patients in England, to improve the safety and quality of patient care by making information about patients and their...

Crisis plans in forensic mental health nursing

01 December 2000

Mental Health Practice

Care planning

There is a current emphasis on provision of community care for forensic patients (DoH and Home Office 1992). While these patients may raise anxieties for some there...

Recording pressure ulcer risk assessment and incidence

15 July 2015

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article reports on the introduction of an innovative computer-based system developed to record and report pressure ulcer risk and incidence at an acute NHS...

The patient handover: a study of its form, function and efficiency

20 September 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical research communication

This study investigates the nature of the ward handover report. It was undertaken following observations that student nurses seemed not to receive enough knowledge...

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