title: Hospital secondments of community nurses to improve stoma care.
abstract: As clinical nurse specialists working in a busy and proactive colorectal team we are continually looking for different ways of working to enhance patient care. The opportunity to review the range of skills in the team highlighted the need for a staff nurse. It was decided that this role should be an educational secondment (on a rolling programme) to give staff nurses the opportunity to develop skills in colorectal nursing. The post was piloted with a community staff nurse for it was felt that this would improve the primary/secondary interface, communication and collaborative working between the teams. The aim was to empower generalist and community nurses in the care of patients with colorectal diseases. This was delivered through a work-based programme to help develop the knowledge and skills of the nurses, in addition to enhancing multidisciplinary teamworking, in an environment of mutual regard and shared understanding.
authors.affiliation: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust. tracy.adams@cht.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Tracey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dufton
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D054047:Surgical Stomas; D006113:United Kingdom