This report outlines and discusses the King's Fund Ward Sister Training Project being piloted at Guy's Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital in London. This arose from debate in 1977 about how the Fund could respond to the climate of management awareness and professional concern about the role of the ward ...
Ward policies usually result from a dialogue between medical, nursing and other staff who form part of the ward team, but this cannot be achieved without reference to hospital, district, regional and national policies, and legislation which affects the patient or any member of staff. This conference followed a King's ...
Nowhere is there a written set of standards against which what happens within the ward can be judged by those within and without its confines. This study was undertaken to produce a valid framework that would enable nurses to look systematically at the ward and all its activities. It has ...