Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications
Aim: To explore critical care patients and families experiences and seek their input into nurses' postgraduate educational preparation and practice. Background: There is an inconsistency in the expected standard of practice to ‘qualify’ Australian critical care nurses. There has also been a lac...
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| author | Gill, Fenella Leslie, Gavin Grech, Carol Latour, Jos |
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| description | Aim: To explore critical care patients and families experiences and seek their input into nurses' postgraduate educational preparation and practice. Background: There is an inconsistency in the expected standard of practice to ‘qualify’ Australian critical care nurses. There has also been a lack of health consumer input in the development of postgraduate course curriculum and content. Method: Following institutional ethics committee approval, purposive sampling was used to select participants for focus groups and individual interviews who had experienced intensive care or coronary care. Findings: Seventeen participants provided data which created two main thematic categories; the role of the critical care nurse and; minimum practice standards for postgraduate critical care course graduates. Both physical patient care and socio-emotional support of patients and family were identified as important for the critical care nurse role. The level of socio-emotional support provided by nurses was reported to be inconsistent. Components of socio-emotional support included communication, people skills, facilitating family presence and advocacy. These components were reflected in participants' concepts of minimum practice standards for postgraduate critical care course graduates; talking and listening skills, relating to and dealing with stressed people, individualizing care and patient and family advocacy. Conclusion: Health consumers' views emphasize that socio-emotional skills and behaviours need to be explicitly described in postgraduate critical care nursing course curricula and instruments developed to consistently assess these core competencies. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-275792017-09-13T15:56:35Z Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications Gill, Fenella Leslie, Gavin Grech, Carol Latour, Jos Specialist intensive care nursing Patients' and families' views Postgraduate educational preparation Aim: To explore critical care patients and families experiences and seek their input into nurses' postgraduate educational preparation and practice. Background: There is an inconsistency in the expected standard of practice to ‘qualify’ Australian critical care nurses. There has also been a lack of health consumer input in the development of postgraduate course curriculum and content. Method: Following institutional ethics committee approval, purposive sampling was used to select participants for focus groups and individual interviews who had experienced intensive care or coronary care. Findings: Seventeen participants provided data which created two main thematic categories; the role of the critical care nurse and; minimum practice standards for postgraduate critical care course graduates. Both physical patient care and socio-emotional support of patients and family were identified as important for the critical care nurse role. The level of socio-emotional support provided by nurses was reported to be inconsistent. Components of socio-emotional support included communication, people skills, facilitating family presence and advocacy. These components were reflected in participants' concepts of minimum practice standards for postgraduate critical care course graduates; talking and listening skills, relating to and dealing with stressed people, individualizing care and patient and family advocacy. Conclusion: Health consumers' views emphasize that socio-emotional skills and behaviours need to be explicitly described in postgraduate critical care nursing course curricula and instruments developed to consistently assess these core competencies. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27579 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2012.00543.x Wiley Publishers restricted |
| spellingShingle | Specialist intensive care nursing Patients' and families' views Postgraduate educational preparation Gill, Fenella Leslie, Gavin Grech, Carol Latour, Jos Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title | Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title_full | Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title_fullStr | Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title_short | Health consumers' experiences in Australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| title_sort | health consumers' experiences in australian critical care units: postgraduate nurse education implications |
| topic | Specialist intensive care nursing Patients' and families' views Postgraduate educational preparation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27579 |