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Nursing workload: An unquantifiable entity (1999)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., & Hughes, M. (1999). Nursing workload: An unquantifiable entity. Journal of Nursing Management, 7(6), 317-322. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2834.1999.00148.x

Background: In the increasingly prominent drives towards cost containment and efficiency nursing is under pressure to justify its value to healthcare. On the surface nursing workload assessment methods would appear to offer a means to quantify the nu... Read More about Nursing workload: An unquantifiable entity.

Information in resource management: Ward managers' perceptions (1999)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., & Hughes, M. (1999). Information in resource management: Ward managers' perceptions. Health Informatics Journal, 5(1), 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/146045829900500104

With the third wave of UK National Health Service reforms now several years old and resource management firmly established, this study investigated ward managers' perceptions of their clinical information needs and their information processes in rela... Read More about Information in resource management: Ward managers' perceptions.

Asthma care (1999)
Journal Article
Francis, C. (1999). Asthma care

Primary nursing: A mode of care or a philosophy of nursing? (1999)
Journal Article
Pontin, D. (1999). Primary nursing: A mode of care or a philosophy of nursing?. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 29(3), 584-591. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00926.x

An examination of the literature surrounding primary nursing has shown that the term 'primary nursing' is used to mean different things by different authors. This results in a confusing situation where 'primary nursing' is considered by some to mean... Read More about Primary nursing: A mode of care or a philosophy of nursing?.

Present tense commentary: A qualitative research technique (1999)
Journal Article
Mitchell, T. (1999). Present tense commentary: A qualitative research technique. Nurse Education Today, 19(2), 151-158. https://doi.org/10.1054/nedt.1999.0623

This paper describes Present Tense Commentary (PTC) as a technique to gather rich data which satisfies the requirements of a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to research. Using PTC, the informant is encouraged to relive significant events by con... Read More about Present tense commentary: A qualitative research technique.