Multi-disciplinary audit and the mental health nurse.

Abstract

Research advances knowledge; audit is a way of ensuring that this new knowledge is applied to practice. Uni-disciplinary audit is well-established; multi-disciplinary audit presents other challenges. Jonathan Ash outlines and illustrates how nurses working in a multi-disciplinary mental health team can initiate, design and use audit to improve the quality of the service, and to ensure it meets users' wants and needs.