Coproducing and Implementing Person-Centered Key Performance Indicators in Ambulatory Cancer Nursing.

Background: Policy advocates person-centered healthcare for people living with cancer. Although nurses and patients alike recognize that a good care experience cannot be measured solely by clinical outcomes, the difficulty in finding indicators that measure the delivery of effective person-centered care remains a challenge.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the impact of a coproduced implementation project using the person-centered nursing key performance indicators to support the development of person-centered practice across ambulatory chemotherapy units.

Capacity building in nursing and midwifery research and development: an old priority with a new perspective.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to identify strategic priorities to inform the development of a regional strategy for nursing and midwifery research and development.

Background: Research capacity has been highlighted internationally as a crucial element in the advancement of nursing and midwifery research and development. Research capacity has been defined as that which relates to the ability to conduct research.

Development of a framework for person-centred nursing.

Unlabelled: This paper presents the development and content of a person-centred nursing framework.

Background And Rationale: Person-centred is a widely used concept in nursing and health care generally, and a range of literature articulates key components of person-centred nursing. This evidence base highlights the links between this approach and previous work on therapeutic caring.

Caring in nursing practice: the development of a conceptual framework.

This article reports the results of a qualitative research study which explored patients' experience of caring. To elicit stories relating to the experience of caring, a hermeneutic approach was selected incorporating a narrative method. One-to-one interviews were conducted with 24 patients in their homes, shortly after discharge from hospital.

Elisions in the field of caring.

Background: Contemporary research into caring in nursing was criticized in the pages of this journal by John Paley. He charged that the study of caring has not been advanced by research which, he reckoned, merely generates endless lists of terms to describe caring. He also argued that research in the field was largely flawed by confusion over the difference between things said about caring and the act of caring itself.