Nursing beds: an evaluation of the effects of therapeutic nursing
- England Scruti Press 1992
- viii, 143p.
Presents the study of effects of admitting people to an experimental unit based on therapeutic nursing, carried out in Oxfordshire. shows that he nurse-led unit seemed to be a safe alternative to conventional management, but a full accounting of such units' place in the local continuum of care and the costs associated with acute hospitals managing post-acute patients is needed if nurse-led units are to become an effective part of the government's recent commitment to intermediate care.