Measuring nursing movements using real time tracking data at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust.

Background: Real time location systems (RTLS) are increasingly used in healthcare with applications that include contract tracing and staffing. However, their potential to provide organizational insights requires staff compliance with the system.

Materials And Methods: Our goal is to assess how many nurses are using the RTLS correctly (i.

Evaluation of the effect of a Nursing System Framework on Nurse Sensitive Indicators, mortality and readmission in an NHS Trust.

Unlabelled: In 2018, an NHS Trust (UK) implemented an innovative Nursing System Framework (NSF). The NSF formalized a two-year strategy, which provided teams with clear aims and measurable objectives to deliver care. Failures of coordination of nursing services are well-recognized threats to the quality, safety and sustainability of care provision.

How a better understanding of nursing research roles may help to embed research into clinical structures.

Background: Despite efforts to build research capacity within nursing there are growing concerns about the lack of funding and support for nurses who wish to pursue a career in research.

Aim: To explore how research capacity within the nursing profession can be increased.

Discussion: The disparity in opportunity and support for such roles is a barrier to the growth of nursing research.

The feasibility and validity of using a real time location system (RTLS) to measure bedside contact time.

Background: The association between the nurse-to-patient ratio and patient outcomes has been extensively investigated. Real time location systems have the potential capability of measuring the actual amount of bedside contact patients receive.

Aims: This study aimed to determine the feasibility and accuracy of real time location systems as a measure of the amount of contact time that nurses spent in the patients' bed space.

The scope and variance of clinical nurse specialist job descriptions.

Specialist nurses have been part of the nursing workforce for decades but articulating the scope of such roles, educational requirements, professional expertise and levels of pay is still widely debated within the workplace. This article reports on a study that examined a sample of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) job descriptions from across the UK. One hundred job descriptions were sourced, originating from various healthcare settings, and audited to explore their scope and content.

A cross-sectional survey of general practice health workers' perceptions of their provision of culturally competent services to ethnic minority people with diabetes.

Aims: To explore General Practice teams cultural-competence, in particular, ethnicity, linguistic skillset and cultural awareness. The practice teams' access to diabetes-training, and overall perception of cultural-competence were also assessed.

Methods: A cross-sectional single-city-survey with one in three people with diabetes from an ethnic minority group, using 35 semi-structured questions was completed.

The effect of Nurse GraduaTeness on patient mortality: a cross-sectional survey (the NuGaT study).

Aim: To investigate the relationship between patient mortality and the educational preparation (graduateness) of the nurses who cared for them.

Background: There have been 18 studies over the last two decades examining the effect of nurses' educational qualifications on mortality. All but three have used mortality data aggregated at the hospital level that has been combined with surveys of nurses to estimate the level of graduateness in the population.

How to keep score of acuity and dependency.

This article describes how the introduction of an acuity and dependency tool at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has provided nurses with a structure for gathering evidence about patient care levels, and discusses how this information is shared throughout the trust to improve patient outcomes and safety.

Why do patients known to renal services still undergo urgent dialysis initiation? A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Unplanned, urgent initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is associated with poorer outcomes than planned initiation. However, in many services worldwide, substantial numbers of patients still do not begin treatment electively. The aim of this study was to identify numbers of and possible risk factors for, patients starting unplanned RRT despite being known to renal services for > or =4 months.

Nursing care of patients with nasogastric feeding tubes.

Nasogastric tubes are commonly used for patients as a short-term method of providing continuous, pre-packed liquid feed. In order to explore how evidence-based practice is being incorporated into care, we conducted a survey investigating the views and practices of nutrition specialist nurses in acute trusts across the UK. A postal questionnaire comprising 35 questions considered the role of the nutrition specialist nurse, care of patients with nasogastric tubes, and training and education of nurses in the care of these patients.