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The effectiveness of nurse-initiated interventions in the Emergency
WEBNurse-initiated interventions potentially provide an opportunity for earlier response for time sensitive presentations to the Emergency Department, and may improve time-to-treatment, symptomatic relief and patient flow through the department.
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Clinical pathways in the emergency department: Successful
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Standardising the Clinical Initiatives Nurse role (CIN): …
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The relationship between resilience and psychological …
WEBParamedics’ continued exposure to occupational stressors can have a detrimental effect on their psychological well-being. Resilience can provide for better coping. Understanding individual differences provides explanations why some individuals thrive while others are more at risk.
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HIRAID: An evidence-informed emergency nursing assessment …
WEBEmergency nurses must be highly skilled at performing accurate and comprehensive patient assessments. In 2008, the inaugural emergency nursing assessment framework (ENAF) was devised at Sydney Nursing School, to provide emergency nurses with a systematic approach to initial patient assessment. In 2014 the …
Mental Health First Aid training for paramedic students: An …
WEBThe combination of first-year placements, an increasing proportion of mental health callouts, and the high incidence of mental illness in health-professional tertiary students means standard curricula may not adequately prepare early-year paramedic students for mental health challenges.
HIRAID: An evidence-informed emergency nursing …
WEBThe HIRAID emergency nursing assessment framework is an evidence-informed theoretical structure designed to provide emergency nurses with a systematic approach to. initial and ongoing comprehensive patient assessment from the time the patient presents to the ED (after triage), through to despatch (Fig. 2).
Triage in Australian emergency departments: Results of a New …
WEBTriage is a critical component of emergency department practice; affecting patient safety and access to emergency care. Within Australia, triage is an autonomous role predominantly conducted by trained emergency nurses.
Managing, treating, assessing and diagnosing acute psychosis in …
WEBOver the last three or four years there has been a noted increase in the number of presentations of patients with mental health problems to emergency departments (EDs), a lack of experienced mental health nurses in the ED and increasing expectations for ED clinicians to assess and manage mental health patients in an acute setting.Assessing …
Confidence and impact on clinical decision-making and behaviour …
WEBClinical competency is underpinned by the self-confidence of nurses to act. Confidence may be critical to the understanding of how practice choices are made and not made by nurses in extended practice roles. The aim of this study was to explore how emergency nurses perceived (i) self-confidence in undertaking an extended practice role; and (ii) the factors …
Challenges in the recognition and management of paediatric …
WEBPaediatric sepsis remains a leading cause of childhood death. Morbidity is high, with up to one third of children affected developing ongoing, sometimes lifelong sequelae. To address the major burden of sepsis on child health, there is need for a unified approach to care, as outlined in the Australian National Action Plan for sepsis. While the Surviving Sepsis …
ChIP: An early activation protocol for isolated blunt chest injury
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WEBOver the past two decades, the demands placed on modern paramedic systems has changed. Paramedic services can no longer continue to operate on a traditional response model where more ambulances are deployed to meet the rising demand of patients calling for their health needs. Recent research has explored system …
Implementing community paramedicine: A known player in a new …
WEBCommunity Paramedicine is a model of care which is effective and accepted by health professionals and the community. Community paramedicine delivers low acuity primary care to disadvantaged communities and addresses service gaps. We aimed to identify successful implementation of community paramedicine models and signalled …
Australian Triage Process Review project
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Factors that contribute to patient length of stay in the emergency
WEBIncreased Emergency Department length of stay impacts access to emergency care and is associated with increased patient morbidity, overcrowding, reduced patient and staff satisfaction. We sought to determine the contributing factors to increased length of stay in our mixed ED.
A review of the quality assurance processes for the Australasian …
WEBTriage is a critical component in the delivery of time-sensitive emergency care. Decision-making and the activity of the triage nurse affect patient access to care and allocation of emergency department (ED) resources. It is important to be able to evaluate decision-making at triage to ensure patient safety, and to identify opportunities for …
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