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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.

Email alert for acute admissions

By: John White, St James Hospital

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

The introduction of the radiotherapy practitioner

By: Catherine Docherty, Royal Free Hospital

Category

Treatment

Assistance in investigative procedures

By: Josie Roberts & Suzanne Davies, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Category

Investigation Process

Lung cancer diagnosis and home visits

By: Jo Phelps, Michelle Palmer & Jolly Barber, Southend University Hospital

Category

Diagnosis and Initial Needs

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

Developing a network wide approach to assessing the experiences of our cancer patients in the North London cancer Network

By: Catherine Docherty, Royal Free Hospital

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

Holistic needs assessment - Self assessment tools

By: Josie Roberts & Suzanne Davies, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Category

Diagnosis and Initial Needs

Memorial service

By: Jo Phelps, Michelle Palmer & Jolly Barber, Southend University Hospital

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

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

The development of lung cancer nursing documentation: an integral part of patient care

By: Lynn Irvine, John McPhelim, Kirsty Bridges, Kirstie McManus, Melaine Sinclair, NHS Lanarkshire

Category

Investigation Process

Home visits for patients diagnosed with mesothelioma

By: Josie Roberts & Suzanne Davies, Rotherham General Hospital

Category

Diagnosis and Initial Needs

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

A nurse-led erlotinib toxicity assessment clinic within the lung oncology clinic

By: John McPhelim & Lynn Irvine, Monklands & Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire

Category

Treatment

Rehabilitation programme post surgery

By: Josie Roberts & Suzanne Davies, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

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

Inter-hospital communication, fast and reliable patient-centred information exchange

By: John McPhelim & Lynn Irvine, NHS Lanarkshire

Category

Follow-Up and End-of-Life Care

Macmillan lung cancer specialist supportive service

By: Sarah Morgan, Glangwili Hospital

Category

Pre-Diagnosis and Referral

Setting up a nurse-led post MDT diagnostic clinic

By: Sandra Wakelin, Maidstone and Kent

Category

Pre-Diagnosis and Referral

 

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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