Journal of Advanced Practices in Nursing

Department of Adnexal, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Publications

• Research Article   
  Audit of UK First Nurse-Led Adult Lacrimal Clinic
  Author(s): Nicola Dunlop*
  
  Nurse-led clinics in the United Kingdom (UK) are not new. It was irst endorse by the government in 1990s in a variety of document including making a difference and the chief nursing officer’s 10 key roles for nurses. In addition the NHS Plan charge management to make a change and respond to the government’s strategy for nursing and midwifery to introduce new ways of working for to improve service delivery by injecting quality care and treatment. Nurse-led lacrimal clinic has the potential to offer a valuable contribution through increase patient low, improve cost efficiency and create opportunities for nurses to develop new skills. With increasingly healthcare burdened e.g. funding limitations, staff shortages there was a need to streamline services and improve patient low and efficiency. Signi icantly, a huge proportion of patients referred to the lacrim.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2573-0347.2023.8.328

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