The development and implementation of the district nursing Welsh Levels of Care Tool

This article describes the development, piloting and implementation of the District Nursing Welsh Levels of Care (DN WLoC), acuity and dependency tool which has been designed to be used alongside nurses professional judgment, to evidence the acuity and dependency of patients, and to help inform decisions of nurse staffing requirements in district nursing services. The initial pilot successfully achieved its objective and demonstrated that the draft DN WLoC tool is applicable in practice by district nurses across Wales, with limited but positive findings in the reliability and validity of the WLoC tool when applied in clinical practice.PMID:38564444 | DOI:10.12968/bjcn.2024.29.4.171
Source: British Journal of Community Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research