A collection of five papers given at a conference held at the King's Fund Centre to celebrate the first ten years' publication of Journal for Advanced Nursing. The papers discuss the role of scholarship within the nursing profession in the following spheres: nursing education; nursing management; nursing practice. Other papers ...
This project paper has been compiled as a result of workshops and conferences on unit management held at the King's Fund College and King's Fund Centre, February 1980 - February 1982. The challenge for management at unit level is to improve efficiency, monitor standards, simplify decision-making processes and carry out ...
The use of the term "monitoring" in the health service or management context was usually taken to imply the development and establishment of certain standards of performance in a particular field, and a system to examine whether or not those standards had been met. The identification of adequate and realistic ...