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A tool to identify falling care quality
A safety trigger tool was developed so individual wards could anticipate where standards may start to deteriorate and therefore act to prevent care failures occurring
Communication skills training in end-of-life care
A two-day training course in communication skills for end-of-life care gave healthcare assistants more confidence in discussing death and dying with patients and families
Improving training in motivational interviewing
Practitioners from different clinical backgrounds can use motivational interviewing. A university set up a module on the technique for health and social care professionals
Using IT to improve out-of-hours care
A trust used information technology to make its Hospital at Night service safer and more efficient while improving staff satisfaction
Smoking cessation buddies in COPD
A buddy-led smoking cessation clinic can help patients with COPD to quit
Designing wards to release time to care
Innovative ward layout can reduce wasted nursing time. A hospital designed three new wards to allow nurses to spend more of their shift providing direct patient care
The role of the research nurse
Research nurses play a vital role in ensuring clinical research studies run smoothly and that participants are safe and fully informed
Identifying people at risk of fuel poverty to prevent excess winter deaths
Improving the energy efficiency of houses may reduce winter deaths. A trust developed an algorithm to assess eligibility for winter warmth initiatives
Using a campaign to promote safer medicines practice among healthcare professionals
Safer medicines month was launched to alert nurses to essential aspects of medicines administration policy. This article discusses the campaign’s impact
Enhancing nurses’ roles to improve quality and efficiency of non-medical cardiac stress tests
Nurses and other non-medical staff have reduced a 42 week waiting time for myocardial perfusion imaging to just two weeks. The trust reveals how
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Using support workers to release time for qualified midwives in maternity care
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Implementing and evaluating the Productive Ward initiative in a mental health trust
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Medical management in the community as an option for first trimester miscarriage
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Designing a training programme to improve staff attitudes towards people with dementia
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Evaluating the standards of nursing in residential care homes across one region
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Empowering people to self manage COPD with management plans and hand held records
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Developing a joined up approach to smoking cessation in primary and secondary care
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The effectiveness of drug round tabards in reducing incidence of medication errors
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Developing a nurse led hospice outpatient clinic to improve palliative care services
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 7: promoting normal birth
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 6: where to die when the time comes
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 5: protection from infection
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Fit for life: promoting healthy lifestyles for adults with learning disabilities
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 4: your skin matters
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 3: staying safe, preventing falls
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 2: fit and well to care
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The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 1: keeping nourished – getting better
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Ensuring reusable equipment meets patients’ needs and infection prevention guidelines
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How nurses can implement the high impact actions to improve quality and cost effectiveness
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How telehealth can increase the effectiveness of chronic heart failure management
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Human patient simulation can aid staff training in non-invasive ventilation
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Why do patients with complex palliative needs experience delayed hospital discharge?
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Redesigning a continence prescription service to improve patient safety and experience
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How a link nurse ensured equal treatment for people of Asian origin with dementia
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How a quality improvement initiative can be used to promote single sex accommodation
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Everybody matters 3: engaging patients and relatives in decision making to promote dignity
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Everybody matters 2: promoting dignity in acute care through effective communication
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Everybody matters 1: how getting to know your patients helps to promote dignified care
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Using an outreach service to meet the needs of users of intravenous drugs with leg ulceration
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A fast track path improves access to palliative care for people with learning disabilities
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Clinical supervision using the 4S model 3: how to support supervisors and sustain schemes
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Developing self management plans to help people with COPD to control their condition
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Do people with mild COPD benefit from early pulmonary rehabilitation programmes?
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Clinical supervision using the 4S model 2: training supervisors to deliver effective sessions
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Clinical supervision using the 4S model 1: considering the structure and setting it up
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Supporting staff nurses to train as community specialist district nurse practitioners
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Developing a screening tool and training package to identify dysphagia in all settings
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Challenging accepted practice standards to ensure care is evidence based and up to date
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What can nurse leaders and staff nurses do to prepare to implement electronic care records?
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Empowering advanced practitioners to set up nurse led clinics for improved outpatient care
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Training assistant practitioners to deliver clinical care in specialist services
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Developing a booklet to share best practice in implementing Essence of Care benchmarks
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Using supported learning to ensure nurse recruits are skilled to care for acutely ill patients
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Integrated care pilot programme: ensuring people with dementia receive joined up care
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Training staff to empower people with long term conditions to undertake self care activities
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Developing a training programme for detecting and tackling childhood sexual abuse
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Measuring the quality of care: using patient experience trackers in a neonatal unit
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How a central venous catheter surveillance tool was developed for use with all ethnic groups
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How to improve services for dying patients in critical care: adapting protocols
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Using ideas management to identify ways to improve care in the NHS and in organisations
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Implementing the eight high impact actions to transform healthcare and boost efficiency
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Nurses take the lead in setting up an innovative service for people with personality disorder
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Implementing online tools and resources to help nurses apply evidence based care
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A Slovenian model of integrated care for older people can offer solutions for NHS services
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See the person in the health professional: how looking after staff benefits patients
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Collaborative working empowers staff to cut the number of cardiac arrests
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How using a patient journey approach helps to educate nurses about patient safety
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Using a DVD to help people with chronic fatigue syndrome learn the technique of pacing
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Eliminating mixed sex accommodation in hospital to improve patient experience
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Developing ward accreditation to improve infection control practice
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How to ensure quality is at the heart of the commissioning process
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Setting up a training course to improve care for burn and plastic surgery patients
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Using interprofessional learning in practice to improve multidisciplinary working
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How consultation liaison meetings improved staff knowledge, communication and care
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Extending a nurse practitioner’s role to undertake advanced procedures
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Piloting the introduction of personal health plans for people with long term conditions
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Using NHS resources effectively to improve the ward environment for patients and staff
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How the web portal NHS Evidence will help nurses to make informed decisions
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Developing a nursing education project in partnership: leadership in compassionate care
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Developing a school team to improve links between education and mental health services
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Rolling out Productive Ward foundation modules across a hospital trust
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Improving nutrition in dementia through menu picture cards and cooking activities
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Exploring how to measure patients’ experience of care in hospital to improve services
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Auditing the nursing standard for weighing patients on an acute medical unit
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Implementing quality care indicators and presenting results to engage frontline staff
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Improving compliance with the C. difficile root cause analysis tool to reduce incidence
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Exploring how to enable compassionate care in hospital to improve patient experience
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Facilitating earlier transfer of care from acute stroke services into the community
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Developing a model for complementary therapy for patients with cancer
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Using a community respiratory service to reduce children's hospital admissions
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Raising the profile of skincare among health professionals
