Biomedical subjects

S Redfern

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Three years on: how NDUs are meeting the challenge.

This paper, the first of two, describes the major challenges faced by 28 nursing development units (NDUs) during three years of Department of Health funding. The findings suggest that structural and process issues in the NDUs and their host organisations were the main challenges in the early period of their existence. Given this, the importance of wider organisational commitment and support is vital if an NDU is to survive and flourish.

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Reactions to nurses' expanding practice.

The UKCC published the Scope of Professional Practice to guide nurses, midwives and health visitors on expanding their practice. This paper looks at what has been written about the document and some of the reactions to it. Recent examples show how successful practitioners have been in enhancing their practice, although there is some evidence of role confusion and stress.

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Research, audit and networking: who's in the lead?

This article compares the progress made by nursing development units compared with matched units without NDU status on research, audit and networking activities. Research and dissemination is significantly greater in NDUs than in comparators. Research in NDUs focuses on local attempts to improve practice and has some way to go before it can be generalised to health care settings beyond the unit where it was carried out. There is no difference in number of audits undertaken by NDUs and comparators but NDUs carried out more audits to evaluate nursing work and comparators did proportionately more on practice topics and user issues. There is no association between research and audit activity; more audit does not result in less research Networking activity by staff is significantly greater for NDUs, suggesting they are seen as a resource for other centres. NDUs are active in research and networking--significantly more so than comparators.

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