Satisfaction with clinical nurse specialists in a breast care clinic: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1998;316:976-977 ( 28 March )

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Satisfaction with clinical nurse specialists in a breast care clinic: questionnaire survey

Linda Garvican, senior research fellow, ^a Elisabeth Grimsey, clinical nurse specialist, ^b Peter Littlejohns, director, ^a Sue Lowndes, clinical nurse specialist, ^b Nigel Sacks, consultant surgeon. ^b

^a Health Care Evaluation Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, ^b Breast Unit, St George's Hospital, London SW17 0QT

Correspondence to: Dr Garvican linda.garvican@btinternet.com

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Specialist nurses have an established role in the management of breast cancer in helping patients to understand their diseaseand treatment options, and in offering counselling and emotionalsupport ¹ ² ; they are not usually involved in diagnosis.

In 1987 two clinical nurse specialists were appointed to the breast care clinic at our hospital; they were given responsibilityfor running outpatient clinics for symptomatic patients, includingnew referrals. The nurses take histories, examine the women, requestimaging, and perform fine needle aspirations when appropriate.Test results are given by the nurses to both the patients andtheir general practitioners. The specialist surgeon sees patientswho have been newly diagnosed with cancer and any patients forwhom the evidence is equivocal. This paper describes patient satisfactionwith a nurse led clinic screening for breast diseases in Londonand assesses the clinical expertise of the nurses.

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A specifically designed patient satisfaction questionnaire was distributed . . . [Full text of this article]

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