Freedom to practise establishing continuity
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Patient-centered nursing requires a decentralised nursing system, in which nurses can form relationships with their patients and respond to their individual needs. Implementation of a patient-centered nursing system on a hospital ward involved the division of the nursing team into small groups, with responsibility for a particular group of patients, ensuring that the patient had contact with only 4-5 nurses during a stint on the ward.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2000
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Freedom to practise: the sister's role
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It is clear that the ward sister plays a key role in determining the quality of nursing care. The sister controls the relationship between the individual ward and the wider hospital organization, and the sister's attitude also affects the quality of the ward as a learning environment. The sister must find the best way to make a constructive contribution to the ward's clinical work, while also fulfilling other responsibilities. This may involve some role restructuring, possibly alternating clinical time with time spent focusing on management issues, staff development work, research and external responsibilities.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2000
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Freedom to practise: patient-centred nursing
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There is still a significant gap in most hospital wards in the UK between the way nurses practise and the way their training and socialization have taught them they should practise. Research in this area has analyzed the development of a genuinely patient-centred nursing service. The main issues were converting a patient-centred philosophy into practise, managing this process and the professional development required to back up the change. It is clear that investment in the professional development of individual nurses can significantly alter their work with patients.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2000
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