Enhancing Pragmatic Language skills for Young children with Social communication difficulties (E-PLAYS-2) trial: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial evaluating a computerised intervention to promote communicative development and collaborative skills in young children.

Background: A number of children experience difficulties with social communication and this has long-term deleterious effects on their mental health, social development and education. The E-PLAYS-2 study will test an intervention ('E-PLAYS') aimed at supporting such children. E-PLAYS uses a dyadic computer game to develop collaborative and communication skills.

A structured framework improves clinical patient assessment and nontechnical skills of early career emergency nurses: a pre-post study using full immersion simulation.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the new evidence-informed nursing assessment framework HIRAID (History, Identify Red flags, Assessment, Interventions, Diagnostics, reassessment and communication) on the quality of patient assessment and fundamental nontechnical skills including communication, decision making, task management and situational awareness.

Background: Assessment is a core component of nursing practice and underpins clinical decisions and the safe delivery of patient care. Yet there is no universal or validated system used to teach emergency nurses how to comprehensively assess and care for patients.

The impact of HIRAID on emergency nurses' self-efficacy, anxiety and perceived control: A simulated study.

Introduction: Emergency nurses must perform accurate and complete comprehensive patient assessments to establish patient treatment needs and expedite care.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of a structured approach to emergency nursing assessment following triage, on novice emergency nurses' anxiety, self-efficacy and perceptions of control.

Methods: Thirty eight early career emergency nurses from five Australian hospitals performed an initial patient assessment in an immersive clinical simulated scenario, before and after undertaking training in HIRAID, an evidence-informed patient assessment framework for emergency nurses.

HIRAID: An evidence-informed emergency nursing assessment framework.

Introduction: Emergency 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 assessment framework was re-developed to reflect the most recent evidence.

A comparison of emergency triage scales in triaging poisoned patients.

Background: Triage of toxicology patients presents a challenge due to their complexity, underlying psychosocial issues, and additional pharmacological considerations. Two emergency department triage systems used in Australia, the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) and the Manchester Triage System (MTS), were compared in triaging patients presenting with poisoning and envenoming.

Methods: In this simulation-based study, 30 triage nurses from three hospitals were given 8 tabletop scenarios and asked to provide a triage category.