Clinical Guidelines
Clinical Guidelines
Introduction
This assignment is focused on a schizophrenia clinical guideline. According to NICE (2009) Clinical guidelines are “recommendations on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and Wales”. Clinical guidelines are based on the best available evidence. Guidelines help healthcare professionals in their work, but they do not replace their knowledge and skills. The chosen guideline is called core interventions of schizophrenia in adults in primary and secondary care (March 2009). This guideline is from NICE it was the most up to date schizophrenia guideline in Britain. This assignment has been divided into three parts. The first part the assignment analysis and briefly summaries the chosen clinical guideline schizophrenia. Part two will focus on one chosen aspect of schizophrenia treatment. Cognitive behavioural treatment (CBT) will be the main focus. CBT will be critically discussed and this will be done through evidence based practice experience and literature evidence. Finally Part three of the assignment will focus on how the schizophrenia guideline can be implemented in practice by nurses, and discuss the benefits and limitations of clinical guideline schizophrenia.
The two main clinical guideline developers in the UK are the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline over the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). Both NICE and SIGN are members of the Appraisal of guidelines, Research and Evaluation (AGREE). Therefore the two developers use the same basic principles to develop recommendations based on a systematic review appraisal of the evidence. The difference between the two is that NICE develops guidance through Diagnostic Assessment programme where as a SIGN develops guidance in methodology way. However they both aim to provide the highest quality guidance to the National Health Services (NHS)
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Introduction
This assignment is focused on a schizophrenia clinical guideline. According to NICE (2009) Clinical guidelines are “recommendations on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and Wales”. Clinical guidelines are based on the best available evidence. Guidelines help healthcare professionals in their work, but they do not replace their knowledge and skills. The chosen guideline is called core interventions of schizophrenia in adults in primary and secondary care (March 2009). This guideline is from NICE it was the most up to date schizophrenia guideline in Britain. This assignment has been divided into three parts. The first part the assignment analysis and briefly summaries the chosen clinical guideline schizophrenia. Part two will focus on one chosen aspect of schizophrenia treatment. Cognitive behavioural treatment (CBT) will be the main focus. CBT will be critically discussed and this will be done through evidence based practice experience and literature evidence. Finally Part three of the assignment will focus on how the schizophrenia guideline can be implemented in practice by nurses, and discuss the benefits and limitations of clinical guideline schizophrenia.
The two main clinical guideline developers in the UK are the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline over the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). Both NICE and SIGN are members of the Appraisal of guidelines, Research and Evaluation (AGREE). Therefore the two developers use the same basic principles to develop recommendations based on a systematic review appraisal of the evidence. The difference between the two is that NICE develops guidance through Diagnostic Assessment programme where as a SIGN develops guidance in methodology way. However they both aim to provide the highest quality guidance to the National Health Services (NHS)
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