Developing a qualitative approach to 360-degree feedback to aid understanding and development of clinical expertise.

Aim: This paper presents one aspect of a 5-year multicentre action research study to develop an accreditation process for clinical nursing expertise. Part of the process consisted of the exploration, critique and refinement of qualitative 360-degree feedback as a tool for peer review.

Background: Three hundred and sixty-degree feedback is widely used as a personal and professional development strategy.

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.

Practice development: individualized care.

This article describes the development of a person-centred approach to working with older people. The main focus is on developing the ward leader as a key facilitator of practice development work. This process was enabled through external facilitation of the role and project management.