Understanding the workflow of nurses in acute and subacute medical wards: A time and motion study.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine how much time nurses spend on direct and indirect patient care in acute and subacute hospital settings.

Background: Quantifying direct and indirect nursing care provided during inpatient stay is vital to optimise the quality of care and manage resources.

Design: Time and motion cross-sectional observational study and reported the study according to the STROBE guideline.

Prioritising Responses Of Nurses To deteriorating patient Observations (PRONTO): a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a facilitation intervention on recognition and response to clinical deterioration.

Background: Most hospitals use physiological signs to trigger an urgent clinical review. We investigated whether facilitation could improve nurses' vital sign measurement, interpretation, treatment and escalation of care for deteriorating patients.

Methods: In a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial, we randomised 36 inpatient wards at four acute hospitals to receive standard clinical practice guideline (CPG) dissemination to ward staff (n=18) or facilitated implementation for 6 months following standard dissemination (n=18).

Comparative accuracy testing of non-contact infrared thermometers and temporal artery thermometers in an adult hospital setting.

Background: NCIT are non-invasive devices for fever screening in children. However, evidence of their accuracy for fever screening in adults is lacking. This study aimed to compare the accuracy of non-contact infrared thermometers (NCIT) with temporal artery thermometers (TAT) in an adult hospital.