Since the publication of HC(84)13 following the report of the Griffiths' Management Inquiry, anxiety about the managerial and professional roles of nurses in the `post-Griffiths' era has been expressed by nurses throughout the NHS. The King's Fund convened a working party for invited participants under the chairmanship of Lady McCarthy ...
This report outlines and discusses the King's Fund Ward Sister Training Project being piloted at Guy's Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital in London. This arose from debate in 1977 about how the Fund could respond to the climate of management awareness and professional concern about the role of the ward ...
The essence of successful management of day hospital care concerns relationships between the staff and patients and also communication between staff and patients' relatives. The report concentrates on the multidisciplinary approach to day hospitals and examines the roles of nurse, physiotherapist and occupational therapist in detail. Further discussion centres on ...
This conference brought together different professionals involved in caring for sick children. The conference was opened by the chairman of the Children's Committee who described this committee's advisory role to the Secretary of State on development and co-ordination of health and personal social services for children. Other speakers covered the ...
In recent years, the concept of the expanded role of the nurse has aroused much discussion; some hostile, some favourable, amongst the medical, nursing and administrative professions. This paper explores and documents the vast body of literature covering this area and includes an invaluable bibliography of American and British sources. ...
This conference considered that continuing education is the mark of a profession and it looked at the following questions: How does one enthuse British nurses, who generally are not committed to continuing education?; Why the difference in attitude between them and American nurses, who on the whole are more continued ...
This package evolved from the writers' forum for nurses at the King's Fund Centre in 1978-79. The workshops were designed to present a systematic, logical development of an article or a book for publication. Projects used during the workshop and topics for homework papers were carefully selected with the librarian. ...
These notes are offered as a memory jog for those attending the colloquium. In it is included a delegates list and questions for group discussion. The questions were: selecting students for courses; what are the expectations of graduate nurses? (to include consideration of the underlying philosophy of the undergraduate courses); ...
The aim of this conference was to clarify the role of the personnel nurse and to measure the success of their contribution to the National Health Service. Discussion centred on the role of the personnel department; the functions that should be carried out by departmental staff; the information the personnel ...
A small number of British nurses, representing the nursing services, nursing education, higher education, the General Nursing Council for England and Wales, and the DHSS, attended this seminar. The seminar aimed to further the work of the Thwaites Report on the training of senior managers in the NHS, published by ...