Revista de Práticas Avançadas em Enfermagem

Audit of UK First Nurse-Led Adult Lacrimal Clinic

Abstract

Nicola Dunlop

Nurse-led clinics in the United Kingdom (UK) are not new. It was irst endorse by the government in 1990s in a variety of document including making a difference and the chief nursing officer’s 10 key roles for nurses. In addition the NHS Plan charge management to make a change and respond to the government’s strategy for nursing and midwifery to introduce new ways of working for to improve service delivery by injecting quality care and treatment. Nurse-led lacrimal clinic has the potential to offer a valuable contribution through increase patient low, improve cost efficiency and create opportunities for nurses to develop new skills. With increasingly healthcare burdened e.g. funding limitations, staff shortages there was a need to streamline services and improve patient low and efficiency. Signi icantly, a huge proportion of patients referred to the lacrimal clinic were considered to be likely suitable for nurse-led assessment and management. The nurse-led lacrimal clinic at moor ields eye hospital is the irst is the United Kingdom to manage the condition epiphora or watering of the eye.