Innovation in practice
RSS
Subscribe to this page as an RSS feed:
(33 items total, showing 21 to 30)
Lightbulb innovation: better ulcer treatment designed by nurse
Published: 04 Oct 2012
The next in our lightbulb innovations is by Community Nurse and RCN member, Linda Harris, who has designed a footbath which makes cleansing and dressing leg ulcers much easier for patients and nurses
Lightbulb innovation: board games aid health promotion in people with learning disabilities
Published: 04 Oct 2012
The next in our lightbulb innovations involves board games, health promotion activities and people with learning disabilities. Mary Codling, Primary health care lead nurse for learning disabilities in Wokingham hospital, explains more.
Lightbulb innovation: A web based self-help programme for people with stress
Published: 03 Sep 2012
Our fourth lightbulb innovation highlights a web-based self-help programme for people with stress, anxiety and depression, developed by nurse Steve Cottrell in Wales.
NHS website launches August 2012 helping spread the High Impact Innovations
Published: 24 Aug 2012
Use a wide range of materials to help you spread and adopt the six High Impact Innovations identified in the Innovation Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS report issued in December 2011.
Reporting on innovation and improvement in midwifery services
Published: 22 Aug 2012
This study published by the Royal College of Midwives and the Involvement and Participation Association shows how midwives are leading on improving services for women and families and, crucially, generating savings.
Lightbulb innovation: nurse-led cardiac day lounge a success
Published: 20 Aug 2012
Our sixth lightbulb innovation draws on Nuala Cummins' work to develop a day lounge for patients in a busy cardiology unit in Northern Ireland.
Lightbulb innovation: alleviating the stress of IBS
Published: 20 Aug 2012
In our fifth lightbulb innovation, Helen Bremner explains how hypnotherapy has been changing the lives of people with IBS.
Nurses leading health care transformation in Canada
Published: 17 Aug 2012
Read the research partnered between the Canadian Nurses Association and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation on the impacts and potential of nurse-led innovations in healthcare transformation.
Connecting Nurses announces the Care Challenge innovation award winners
Published: 02 Aug 2012
Twenty nurses from across the world won awards for their outstanding innovations offering the recipients an opportunity to develop their project and to communicate it globally. The UK winner, Jacquie Brodie, received her award for making improvements in communications on her 30-bed NHS ward.
Capturing Impact – a practical toolkit for nurse consultants
Published: 02 Aug 2012
Developed as part of a 2-year research study funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, Capturing Impact is a new practical resource that explores the approaches to measuring the impact of nurse consultants on patient, professional and organisational outcomes.