Good Practice Guide
The purpose of this guide is to provide a user friendly, informative guide for all lung cancer nurses and their colleagues.
The majority of the examples of good practice have been provided by members of Lung Cancer Nursing UK. The Good Practice Guide published by LCNUK is now an established guide to excellent practice and could be extended to be a guide for all tumour sites and other CNS roles in the NHS as examples of developing good practice. A great deal of the work highlighted in these Good Practice Guides is transferable and LCNUK are keen to share their good practice and encourage other CNS’s working to promote good practice to share their ideas.
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Setting up a nurse-led post MDT diagnostic clinic
By: Sandra Wakelin, Maidstone and Kent
Category
Pre-Diagnosis and Referral
Telephone follow-up clinic for patients with resected primary lung cancer
By: Jenny Mitchell, Oxford University Hospital
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
CT based surveillance programme following resection of early stage lung cancer
By: Jenny Mitchell, Oxford University Hospital
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
Memorial service
By: Jo Phelps, Michelle Palmer & Jolly Barber, Southend University Hospital
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
Lung cancer diagnosis and home visits
By: Jo Phelps, Michelle Palmer & Jolly Barber, Southend University Hospital
Category
Diagnosis and Initial Needs
Patient education programme
By: Sandra Dixon, Macmillan Thoracic Surgical Nurse Specialist, St James University Hospital
Category
Treatment
Enhanced recovery programme
By: Sandra Dixon, Macmillan Thoracic Surgical Nurse Specialist, St James University Hospital
Category
Treatment
Macmillan thoracic surgical nurse specialist post
By: Sandra Dixon. Macmillan Thoracic surgical Nurse Specialist, St James University Hospital
Category
Treatment
Developing a concurrent chemo/radiotherapy treatment patient focus checklist/patient hand held schedule and management of symptoms/side effects of treatment by the lung CNS
By: Jackie Fenemore & Emma Halkyard, Lung Cancer Nurse Clinicians, The Christie Hospital
Category
Treatment
Developing the CNS service at a cancer treatment tertiary centre
By: Jackie Fenemore & Emma Halkyard, The Christie NHS Trust
Category
Treatment
Incorporating assessment of patients on immunotherapy into an established nurse-led oncology clinic
By: Sandra Wakelin, Maidstone and Kent
Category
Treatment
Preventing inappropriate admission to hospital through nurse-led telephone consultation clinic
By: Louise Gilham, Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Category
Investigation Process
Nurse re-assessment clinic - Holistic nursing assessment for patients completing initial lung cancer treatments
By: Kim Bowles, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
Nurse-led telephone follow up in lung cancer patients
By: Kerry Tanner Lung Specialist Nurse, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
Email alert for acute admissions
By: John White, St James Hospital
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care
Annual report
By: Lindsey Fitzpatrick, Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
Category
Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care