Standards

All agencies that host Admiral Nurse teams have their own standards. However, it was felt to be important to have an agreed set of standards specific to the Admiral Nurse Service, which complement and enhance employing trusts’ standards.

Why have Admiral Nurse Service standards?

• To take a coherent approach to improve the quality of care for people with dementia and their carers.

• To ensure that carers and people with dementia experience a consistent and high quality service, wherever they may be.

• To help make carers and others aware of what they can expect from the Service.

• To help articulate the evidence base for the Admiral Nurse Service.

What do the Standards cover?

1. Access
2. Referrals
3. Assessment
4. Casework
5. Consultancy
6. Working in partnership
7. Confidentiality
8. Carer involvement
9. Research
10. Professional development
11. Clinical supervision
12. Anti- discriminatory practice
13. Data protection

Where do the standards come from?

• Initially, the work of the Admiral Nurse Service Standards Working Group made up of Admiral Nurses and for dementia staff.

• The on-going work of the Standing Committee on Admiral Nurse Service Standards (SCANSS), made up of Admiral Nurses, for dementia staff, family carers, service managers, and chaired by for dementia Trustee, John Tait.

• All Admiral Nurses, their managers, for dementia staff, Admiral Nurse Service Advisory Committee members.

Who is responsible for putting these standards into action?

• Admiral Nurses and their managers locally

• for dementia plays a central role and has an overview of all services.
How will they be monitored?

• By gathering data from the AMANDA database

• By asking clients of the service what they think

• By carrying out audits

For more information contact:
info@fordementia.org.uk