Getting to the core of quality
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Getting to the core of quality

Fiona Murdoch Night Charge Nurse, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Fiona Murdoch reports on an evaluation of the implementation and audit of a set of standards and the effect the work has had in an acute hospital setting

In January 1990, a group of qualified nurses from the acute sector of a group of hospitals met to discuss proposals for the construction and implementation of a number of nursing standards that could be identified in all areas of the unit.

Nursing Standard. 7, 11, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/ns.7.11.11.s75

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