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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.

Have your own example of good practice? Share with us now.

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

Direct access chest x-ray

By: Karen Clayton, East Cheshire

Category

Diagnosis and Initial Needs

Developing the CNS service at a cancer treatment tertiary centre

By: Jackie Fenemore & Emma Halkyard, The Christie NHS Trust

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

Lung CNS follow-up

By: John White, St James Hospital

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

 

On behalf of the LCNUK committee, Jackie Fenemore and Carol Davies would like to thank members for supporting the development of this third edition Good Practice Guide. We are indebted to those nurses who have sent in examples of improvements and changes in their practice,some of which are also included in the Scottish Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses Electronic Directory for Sharing Practice.

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