Benefits of implementing a link nurse group across both an acute and a primary care trust.
This paper describes how two tissue viability nurses, one from an acute trust and one from a primary care trust, joined forces to set up a link nurse group. This helped raise the profile of wound care and improve standards of care.
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Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, UK. Deborah.Everitt@dvh.nhs.uk
D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing; D019985:Benchmarking; D003253:Consultants / Q000523:psychology; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D011320:Primary Health Care; D017592:Skin Care / Q000451:nursing*; D006113:United Kingdom