Role development: barriers, enablers and the function of a national organisation
Successful implementation of any role development relies on strong partnership working...
29 May 2014
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Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Development of a community nursing drug chart
In April 2011, three providers of community services in Brent and Ealing, in London, and...
29 Apr 2014
Leadership support for ward managers in acute mental health inpatient settings
This article shares findings of work undertaken with a group of mental health ward managers...
29 Apr 2014
The RAFAELA system: a workforce planning tool for nurse staffing and human resource...
The RAFAELA system was developed in Finland during the 1990s to help with the systematic and...
29 Apr 2014
Protected engagement time in mental health inpatient units
Protected engagement time in mental health inpatient units is a fixed period each day during...
27 Mar 2014
A trust-wide review of clinical nurse specialists’ productivity
The contribution made by clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) to patient care needs to be...
27 Mar 2014
Review of non-medical prescribing among acute and community staff
All employers of non-medical prescribers (NMPs) have a duty to ensure they remain competent...
27 Feb 2014
Ten years of transfusion practitioners and better blood transfusion in Scotland
After the Department of Health’s Better Blood Transfusion recommendations ( DH 2002 ) ten...
27 Feb 2014
Self-management in chronic conditions: partners in health scale instrument validation
Aims This article describes a study that aimed to validate the Self-care in Chronic...
27 Feb 2014
Care and comfort rounds: improving standards
Person-centred, safe and effective care is at the heart of the fundamentals of caring....
30 Jan 2014
Horizontal hostility and verbal violence between nurses in the perinatal arena of...
The goal of this US study was to determine the frequency of horizontal violence in a...
30 Jan 2014
Embedding NHS values: a framework and learning tool to support practice
Multiple healthcare failings point to an NHS culture where care and compassion are no longer...
30 Jan 2014
Planning among nurse managers in district hospitals in Ghana
This article reports the results of a study that explored the planning practices of nurse...
01 Dec 2013
Processes to engage and motivate staff
Nursing has a history of poor workplace contexts in which the focus has been on performing...
01 Dec 2013
An international comparison of the clinical trials nurse role
The collaborative role of clinical trials nurses (CTNs) is crucial to the management of...
01 Dec 2013
Newly qualified staff’s perceptions of senior charge nurse roles
Nursing roles have been recognised as pivotal to the delivery of good quality, patient-...
01 Nov 2013
Collaborative services show positive outcomes for end of life care
The authors outline the benefits of participating in the Transforming End of Life Care in...
01 Nov 2013
Preparing to introduce personal health budgets
A large-scale study ( Forder et al 2012 ) piloting personal health budgets for people with...
01 Oct 2013