Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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To help you maintain and develop your professional and clinical practice and meet your UKCC requirements for PREP the RCN is offering free Continuing Education vouchers along with some new CE initiatives starting next week in Nursing Standard. This report explains what will be available.
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An assessment tool was developed to measure patient dependency and staff skill mix in a child psychiatry inpatient unit. The authors discuss the results of a three-month pilot implementation. The implications for practice include adjustments in staff duty rotas, allocation of skill mix and the systematic assessment of patient dependency before inpatient admission.