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Developing standards of care to meet older patients' needs
Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
|February 7, 1996
Abstract:
This article describes an assessment of the needs of older people in order to develop standards of care and a competencies matrix. The nurses involved in the initiative attempted to define the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver a quality service, and identify which of these could be used to enhance their own professional development.