title: Nationwide survey on how comunity nurses gather data.
abstract: District nurses are working under increasing pressure in the community, but lack hard information to prove excessive workload levels. For this reason a newly established RCN District Nurses steering group is to conduct a national survey on how nurses gather data. At its first meeting, the group concluded that the means of collecting information as evidence of high workload varied widely around the country. Without that hard evidence, nurses would not be able to convince general managers of the need for more staff and little could be achieved.