The term consultancy is used in many contexts. It has been applied to advanced nursing practice roles such as clinical nurse specialist, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse practitioner and other occupations. This causes confusion in the healthcare setting as the word is often used interchangeably between roles and has traditionally been used in a medical context. In addition, the development of...

Clinical practice guidelines in nursing (CPG-N) are tools that allow the necessary knowledge that frequently remains specialist-internalised to be made explicit. These tools are a complement to risk adjustment systems (RAS), reinforcing their effectiveness and permitting a rationalisation of healthcare costs. This theoretical study defends the importance of building and using CPG-Ns as instrume...

Bladder cancer is the first disease of “one disease one product” in our ward. “one disease one product” is a special management mode made by the nursing department of our hospital. It is in line with “the patient as the center”, the best evidence, the optimal process, the optimal care to “high quality nursing service chain” as the main line, with “specialist care brand” for the characteristics ...

Bladder cancer is the first disease of “one disease one product” in our ward. “one disease one product” is a special management mode made by the nursing department of our hospital. It is in line with “the patient as the center”, the best evidence, the optimal process, the optimal care to “high quality nursing service chain” as the main line, with “specialist care brand” for the characteristics ...

Bladder cancer is the first disease of “one disease one product” in our ward. “one disease one product” is a special management mode made by the nursing department of our hospital. It is in line with “the patient as the center”, the best evidence, the optimal process, the optimal care to “high quality nursing service chain” as the main line, with “specialist care brand” for the characteristics ...

1 Associate Professor at General and Specialized Nursing Department, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN. MSc. Nurse at the Ribeirão Preto Hospital das Clínicas. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 3 Dermatologist, Specialist in acupuncture. Member of the Research Group. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. lyan...

Comparison was made between patients admitted from a nursing home and all other patients admitted to a geriatric medical unit in 1990 and 1993. The number of nursing home patient admissions rose from 26 in 1990 to 106 in 1993. Nursing home patients were frailer both physically and mentally with a dementia rate of 78% (in those who survived, 1993) and a mortality rate of 19.8% (1993), compared w...

AIM The purpose of the study was to identify the role of the Parkinson's disease specialist nurse in providing support both for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their spouses. BACKGROUND PD is a neurodegenerative disease with symptoms that affect many aspects of daily life. In Sweden, specialised nurses called Parkinson's disease specialist nurses (PD specialist nurses) have been work...

AIM To ascertain and explore the views held by key healthcare policy-makers on the impact of clinical specialist and advanced practice nursing and midwifery roles. BACKGROUND Specialist and advanced practice roles are common world-wide and were introduced in Ireland in 2000. After experiencing these roles for a decade, the views of healthcare policy-makers were sought as part of a national ev...

The objective of this paper is to report the experience of implementing a model of advanced nursing practice that integrates a clinical nurse specialist into the nursing staff. The authors describe the concept of this model and the process of its implementation in a pediatric oncology reference institution in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The main result achieved in evaluating the clinical nur...