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Empowering patients and families to escalate worries and concerns. The NHS England pilot project at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This one year pilot project aims to see patients as equal partners in care 3. 106(SUPPL 1) (pp A361) [8] Patient Safety Commissioner (nd) Listening to patients. Available at: [link] (accessed 16/2/24) [9] NHS England (2023) Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity.

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CSI Academy Teams to Focus on Implementing HWE Standards

Daily Nurse

The HWE standards are the cornerstone of AACN’s comprehensive HWE initiative, a long-term commitment to creating environments where nurses can provide the highest standards of safe, compassionate patient care while being fulfilled at work. We aim to change that.” The program has touched over 1.2

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. Ask most members of the public, the media, and even legislative bodies, and they'll tell you that nurses take care of sick people in hospitals.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. Pediatric nurses, dialysis nurses, school nurses, and others also play their parts in specific areas of clinical focus and patient care.

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Spinning It Positive in Nursing Job Interviews

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

From speaking with other nurses who work here at Hospital Y, I've learned that collaboration and teamwork are central to how you conduct patient care, and my colleagues rave about the workplace culture here. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.

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What Is Your Nursing "North Star"?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Way back on the November 12th, 2012 episode of my old podcast, RN.FM Mind you, we may do it very well indeed--providing very good care for our patients along the way--but it's still " just a job ". This doesn't mean to imply that task-oriented nurses can't provide excellent patient care -- they can and do.

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