This memorandum has been written as a guide to all those interested in hospital administration who may be involved in deciding their own hospital's nursing establishment requirements. The document does not attempt to produce any quick and easy formula as an answer to the staffing problem of any one hospital. ...
This conference was held at the King's Fund College of Hospital Management and the main themes were: methods of appraising hospital and health services; costing hospital and health care; manning hospital and health services; integrating components of hospital and health services.
The objectives of the seminar were to review some of the current initiatives in the nursing field in the United Kingdom to see what methods could wisely be incorporated in the new financial systems being tested in those Districts currently working with CASPE. Cost planning is defined in the terms ...
The report contains three main papers read at the forum. Monica Baly spoke of how the Nightingale Fund influenced the development of nurse education. "Education and the nursing system" was the subject of Rosemary White's paper, offering a new perspective for nursing and its structure. Christopher Maggs, in his paper ...
This document present the papers of the conference. The first discusses what the nursing process is. The second paper discusses the nursing process as the scientific method based on rational decision making, percolating to the bedside. If done properly, then the learning process was bound to follow for the action ...
Nurse to nurse reporting is a critical part of good nursing practice in both primary and secondary health care settings. These guidelines have been revised from the first edition of this project paper in March 1979.
This is a guide to researching the history of nursing covering the research method and the major readings in the discipline of history which will help anyone interested in the history of nursing to develop that interest in the ways most appropriate to them. The first section is concerned with ...
This report is of a forum held at the King's Fund Centre on the study of the history of nursing and the lessons it has for nurses. The four speakers volunteered topics appropriate to the title of the forum. Winifred Hector spoke on the evolution of nursing status, followed by ...
This report describes the work of a small special interest group established in 1981, to promote the concept of continuing education. Ways of carrying out this promotion included stimulating national interest and awareness through the dissemination of information and ideas via conferences, publications and workshops and examining the role of ...
This publication contains four papers presented at the one-day conference - Curriculum development for health studies: a professional foundation for nurse teachers; Towards a climate of creativity: a strategy of innovation in one school of nursing (Bart's); Supporting curriculum change in nursing: trials of an educational facilitator; 8 case studies ...
Participants at this workshop included student nurses, Directors of Nurse Education and people with disabilities. The purpose of the discussion was to focus on the nursing process model of nursing care and how it responds to the needs of people with disabilities in general hospitals. The discussion was limited to ...
This second edition reflects the significant growth in quality assurance activity, and an increased willingness to share experience and expertise amongst those involved in the field. The directory covers the 192 DHAs in England, and provides comprehensive data from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It includes a barchart comparing the ...
This paper was partly derived from the proceedings of a conference on Acute Care at Home, held in the King's Fund Centre in June 1989. The report states that Hospital at Home (HAH) services should be made available throughout the country. It shows that many patients prefer the provision of ...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive set of organisational standards covering the major aspects of an acute general hospital. This will form the basis of a professional peer review (the survey) the aim of which is to support the staff of hospitals in the provision of ...
Nurse to nurse reporting is a critical part of good nursing practice in both primary and secondary health care settings. These guidelines have been revised to fit with current practices in the nurse to nurse handover procedures.
Leadership in British nursing has been neglected by nurses and policy makers. The legacy of this neglect is now being felt as nurses struggle to establish and identity a role for themselves in the changing environment of the NHS. Attempts to promote nursing leadership are not without their problems. There ...
This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...
This is the third publication in a series based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with staff, this book offers examples from five different units of the way in which patients and clients have become actively involved in delivery of care and service developments. ...