title: The role of the professional organisation in setting standards for nursing.
abstract: This paper explores a number of ways in which a professional nursing organisation may be involved in setting standards and evaluating practice. Aspects of this role will be discribed using two approaches: the paper starts off by tracing the developments in standard setting in a number of key professional nursing organisations and goes on to describe in detail how one organisation has approached the task. The paper concludes by highlighting a number of factors that need careful consideration by groups who might wish to develop similar projects.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kitson
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012380:Role; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States