Hugues Cartier is Head of Dermatology, Clinic Saint-Jean, Arras, France; Simon Barrett is Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Humber NHS Foundation, UK; Karen Campbell is Advanced Practice Nurse, Lawson Health Research Insitute, Western University, Ontario, Canada; Jan Forster, Wound Competence Center, Bremen, Germany; Mike Schmalzbauer is a Wound Care Specialist, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, S...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 27, No. 2, APRIL 2007 53 Angela Smith Collins has more than 30 years of experience in nursing, the past 13 years as an advanced practice nurse. She is an associate professor of nursing at the Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa, Ala, where she teaches pharmacology, critical care nursing, and perioperative nursing. She holds APN certification as a medical-surgical cli...

BACKGROUND In 1998, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist (NACNS) developed the first ever core competencies for clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. PURPOSE This article describes the method used to develop, validate, and revise CNS core practice competencies. METHODS The stepwise method of identifying core CNS competencies included content analysis of CNS position/job...

Introduction: Many admissions for acute asthma are avoidable. Care following admission with acute asthma was audited at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, South Wales, simple changes were introduced, and a re-audit was conducted. Methods: Adult admissions for acute asthma were analysed for an initial 2 month period followed by the introduction of changes in practice, then re-audited for a 5 week per...