Journal of advanced nursing
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Multicenter Study
Qualitative insights into the role and practice of Epilepsy Specialist Nurses in England: a focus group study.
This article is a report of a study that aimed to explore Epilepsy Specialist Nurses' perceptions of their professional role and the factors that may affect their practice. ⋯ . The provision of epilepsy care in England remains variable and access to epilepsy specialist nurses is inequitable. Trusts are being seduced by the cost savings of reducing a specialist service but consequent gaps in service may drive up costs elsewhere. The challenge is for epilepsy specialist nurses to demonstrate their unique place in enhancing patient care and in improving health and well-being.
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To investigate the process of patient satisfaction with nurse-led chronic disease management in Australian general practice. ⋯ Navigating Care explains how and why time, communication, continuity, and trust in general practitioners and nurses are important to patient satisfaction. It can be used in identifying suitable patients for practice nurse-led care and to inform the practice and organization of practice nurse-led care to enhance patient satisfaction.