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An evaluation of the King's Fund Centre Nursing Development Unit Network 1989–91
Author(s) -
PEARSON ALAN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00280.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , nursing , generalization , descriptive research , psychology , sociology , medicine , social science , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics education
Summary• This article reports on a study carried out in 1991 of the King's Fund team and the Nursing Development Unit network. • The study is essentially descriptive and largely qualitative in nature and cannot therefore be the basis of generalization. • Overall, it illuminates the emergence of a large number of embryonic nursing development units across the UK. • The findings suggest that the NDU network established by the King's Fund has played an important role in the initiation of a number of these units and in providing them with ongoing support.