Work and Organisation
The NHS modernisation agenda is revolutionising work roles and organisation. There is a need to address the consequences of these developments and deepen understanding of service delivery challenges. Activity centres on the implications of evolving nursing roles for healthcare delivery; managing organisational, agency and professional interfaces and the effects of work organisation on patient safety, service quality and occupational health.
Retention, Recruitment and Occupational Health
- The all Wales community mental health nurses stress study
- Systematic review of stress management interventions for mental health professionals
- The effectiveness of clinical supervision on burnout in community mental health nurses in Wales
- A comparative study of stress in student nurses in five countries
- Treating anxiety in primary care: use of an adult education approach
- A longitudinal study of stress and self esteem in student nurses
Nursing Roles
- The changing shape of nursing practice
- Ethnographies of nursing work 1993-2003: what can they tell us about nursing's workplace jurisdiction?
- The utilisation of advanced clinical assessment skills by cardiac nurses
- An evaluation of the clinical teacher's role in preparing mentors for their mentorship role with Fitness for Practice students
- The role of midwives in postnatal depression
- Nurse staffing and healthcare outcomes: a systematic review of the international research evidence
- The impact of role and psychologies
Managing Interfaces
- Negotiating care in general hospital wards: Nurses, patients and their friends and family
- Delivering health and social care: changing roles, relationships and working practices
- Health and social care for people with severe mental health problems: an ethnographic study
- Co-ordinating devices and the social organisation of health and social care provision: the case of ICPs
- Service/education interface: Same old, same old: An interpretive analysis of nursing students' experiences of working with older people
- An action research project that addresses demand on a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- The Transition from Paediatric to Adult Diabetes Services: What Works for Whom and in What Circumstances
- How has the impact of “care pathway technologies” on service integration in stroke care been measured and what is the strength of the evidence to support their effectiveness in this context
- Mental health services in transition: examining community crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) care
Patient Safety
- Evaluation of NPSA Patient Safety Observatory Reports
- Evaluation of NPSA Rapid Response Reports
- Evaluation of the NPSA guidance designed to improve medication safety: A baseline study of the management of anticoagulent medication.
- Evaluation of The Health Foundation's Safer Patient Network
- Evaluation of the uptake of advice, directives and guidelines to the NHS concerning patient safety by the safety alert broadcast system (SABS)
- Review of the outputs of the NPSA's Safer Medication Team
- Evaluation of the implementation of the alert issued by the UK National Patient Safety Agency on the storage and handling of potassium chloride solution
- Evaluation of the impact of NPSA Guidance designed to improve medication safety: A baseline study of current practice in the management of high-risk injectable medication.
- Implementation Evaluation of the NPSA’s Being Open Policy and Training