Publications by authors named "Benard D Mutwiri"
Article Synopsis
- The Kenyan healthcare system has a strong opportunity to integrate advanced nursing and midwifery practitioners, which can enhance healthcare delivery and meet growing population needs.
- A gap analysis was conducted to identify existing opportunities and threats regarding the integration of advanced practice nursing (APN) and advanced practice midwifery (APM) roles through extensive literature review and database searches.
- Key findings highlight the potential benefits of advanced practice roles while also addressing challenges such as lack of financial support and regulatory frameworks, which need to be overcome to achieve universal health coverage.
This review provides insights on the current state of roles and responsibilities, on-the-job training, barriers, and facilitators of critical care nursing (CCN) practice. Some of the established roles and training of CCN were providing care for acutely ill patients, delivering expert and specialist care, working as a part of a multidisciplinary team, monitoring, and initiating timely treatment, and providing psychosocial support and advanced system treatment, especially in high-income countries. In low-resource settings, critical care nurses work as health care assistants, technical or ancillary staff, and clinical educators; manage medications; care for mechanically ventilated patients; and provide care to deteriorating patients.
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