Category: C

A nurse who specialises in a particular branch of clinical care. A nurse with particular competence in certain areas such as intensive care, cardiology, oncology, obstetrics, or psychiatry. A clinical nurse specialist holds a master’s degree in nursing, preferably with emphasis in clinical nursing.  

The administrative manager of the clinical nursing staff of a hospital.  

Using information gathered from the treatment of patients in a hospital ward or in the doctor’s surgery.  

The responsibility given to doctors to coordinate audit, research, education, use of guidelines and risk management to develop a strategy to raise the quality of medical care. A concept, introduced in a UK government White Paper in 1997, aimed at ‘ensuring that all NHS organizations have in place proper processes for continuously monitoring and improving…

The ability of a procedure or treatment to achieve the desired result.  

The care and treatment of patients in hospital wards or in doctors surgeries.  

An evaluation of the standard of clinical care. A medical audit carried out by health professionals.  

A person visited by a health visitor or social worker. A person who receives professional services. In health care, a client may or may not be sick. The patient of a health care professional. The recipient of care: an individual, family, group, or community. When the client is an individual, the focus is on the…

The practice of writing down the details of a person on admission to a hospital (informal).  

A hereditary bone malformation, with protruding jaw, lack of collarbone and malformed teeth. A congenital anomaly of bone and connective tissue characterized by cranial and facial malformation and incomplete development of the clavicles.