As highlighted by the report of the Royal Commission on the NHS, nurses are the largest staff group in the NHS and account for over one quarter of the total current expenditure in the NHS. Compared to doctors, their manpower and training needs have received relatively little attention until the ...
This report is of a study started in 1976 which was planned to seek the views of patients about their treatment in hospital. The objectives were: to identify deficiencies in communication between patients and the medical and nursing staff and where possible to remedy these; to seek ways of improving ...
The Doncaster nursing audit system attempts to supply a review of the whole range of nursing activity within a health district. This is accomplished using job descriptions for each grade of staff, outlining job requirements and individual responsibilities. The foundation of each audit is a check list for the individual ...